WI 328 A Celtic Tragedy

Just read Barry Hilton's Wargames Illustrated article on the Aughrim game at the League of Augsburg Derby Weekender in October. It was the weirdest end to any wargame I’ve ever been involved in. The Jacobites pretty much had won the game with ease, every attack on Kilcommodan Hill had been repulsed with little or no degradation to their line. There was even an effective counter attack by the guards on the Williamite right flank.

Williamite forces prepare their attack

The Williamite forces on the other hand had advanced across the valley and then exhausted themselves in the uphill fight. They weren’t in full retreat (my Huguenots I’m happy to report acquitted themselves well) but a couple of more rounds would probably have seen a collapse and rout.

Huguenot and Jacobite cavalry clash on the causeway

It was literally the last roll of the dice that did for St Ruhe and thus the Jacobite line, such are the fortunes of war.

I suspect this game will be the subject of many a bar room reminiscence in the years to come if only because a wargame freak occurrence actually matched a real one.

And for once nobody has mentioned my infernal die rolling at the end of a weekend!

The Jacobite army collapses

 

Huguenots March into WI 321

That's Wargames Illustrated not the other WI. In issue 320 readers had to endure a photo or two of the Bautzen game with me in them for which I apologise (why Barry chose one that looked like I was picking my nose I'm not sure!).

Anyway WI 321 has a photo of my Huguenots on page 102 marching off to greet some Jacobites!

Wargames Illustrated Issue 308

Just received this through the post and was delighted to find an article about one of the wargames weekends I’d attended with the League of Augsburg in Derby. The article is entitled ‘A Pair of Kings’ and I’m even mentioned in passing (the clue is Huguenots!).
More information on these weekends can be found over at the League of Augsburg site.