Rearguard after the Boyne

[Rogerc]

Taking the opportunity to get chum Chris C's late 17th century stuff on table we played a Williamite Wars in Ireland game loosely based on an imagined rearguard after the Boyne, write up and lots of images on the blog here: https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/2023/10/aar-rear-guard-action-after-boyne.html

[has.been]

Very pretty set up & figures. I sympathise with your dice throwing.

[marianas_gamer]

Nice AAR. You are very lucky to play with such a nicely painted collection of minis!

[fred]

Great looking game!

Couldn’t really tell if the rules didn’t really work - or it was the really high and low dice rolls by the two players that made the results of combats rather extreme?

We use For King and Parliament for ECW and I plan to use it for Williamite wars - and combat tends to be much more protracted. But four 6s are four 6s!

[Romark]

Looks great 

[jambo1]

Superb looking game Roger, really nice.

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

But four 6s are four 6s!

I can only dream.....

[SJWi]

Lovely armies. I plan to game this period but in 10mm. I will either use "For King and Parliament" or the latest edition of "Beneath the Lily Banners" which I recently picked up cheaply.

[Rogerc]

Thanks for the kind comments guys, and yes four 6's are four 6's no matter the rules.

Rules are not far off just some tweaks I think required. We did try Beneath the Lilly Banners but despite thinking they would be perfect and having some great innovations we just couldn't get on with them. The movement rates were I think the biggest issue, they felt designed for much smaller tables than we play on.