Battle Report: Killiecrankie (sort of)

[PBR Streetgang]

I attended HMGS-East's Fall In convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and managed to get in a wargame inspired by Killiecrankie. The figures were Baccus, the rules were Liber Militum Tercios! and my opponent was my old friend Rob. It was a back and forth affair, the Jacobites enjoyed initial success and were close to victory. The Williamite units were battered but not broken and the highlanders started to lose impetus and began to break.


Battlelines from the Jacobite view, order cards in the process of being assigned to units.


Clan MacDonald assaulting Weem's highland company on the Jacobite left.


Dundee's cavalry scattering the Williamite cavalry.


The tides begin to turn, a battered Clan Maclean breaks under the assault of a battalion from Kenmure's Regiment.


The Jacobite right before things started to go poorly.


Ultimately, the Jacobites began to suffere heavy casualties and in the 7th turn, Mackay was able to claim a "fair" victory for the Government forces.


More pictures and story here: https://lecoqfou.blogspot.com/2024/11/killiecrankie-sort-of.html

[SJWi]

Thanks for the post. I'm slowly building a late 17th century set of armies for the so-called "Glorious Revolution" using Pendraken's 10mm figures.  Killiecrankie would be a nice "asymetric" diversion. No-one makes proper late 17th century Scots but I'm sure in that scale I can use the '45 range plus a few judiciously chosen Civil War figures.  I played a first ECW game using the Tercios-Lite free download last week and found them quite good, but I will also be intrigued to see what Simon Miller produces for the period.