Had a great weekend up at Derby with the League of Augsburg wargamers playing a 25mm game on a 500 sq. foot table! The battle was a semi-fictional LoA / Nine Years War in Ireland encounter, a slight change to history of a naval victory by the French allowing an alternative setting to that which saw the battle of the Boyne in real life.
More pictures below.
Four separate games were run on the different sections of the table on the Saturday morning Here you can see my first command marching along the road with their English colleagues already deployed in the glen beyond.
The scenario was clearing an Irish glen with a band of (nominally Jacobite) Rapparees ensconced in a ruined castle. A force of newly arrived Scots Highlanders had also arrived to "negotiate with the bandits.
The Williamite cavalry on the left of the marsh face off against Jacobite dragoons. To the right of the marshy ground the formed up Williamite line readies itself to receive the Jacobite charge.
Mackay's quickly formed line and headed up in support of the English.
The Jacobites flung their irregular mobs of blade wielding Highlanders at the Williamite line. The regular soldiers would have one chance to blast them with musketry and cannon fire before they were among them. The Williamites were not able to unleash their volleys due to a lack of powder (several event cards were played, there was no time to bring up the powder cart) The Highlanders tore into their ranks and sent them fleeing after a brief fight.
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