The Other Partizan 2008: Ligny 1815

My favourite game of the show at The Other Partizan. The Battle of Ligny, June 16th, 1815 put on display by The League of Gentleman Wargamers. The League of Gentleman Wargamers are part of the League of Augsburg. The terrain for this game was made by Adrian Howe. The figures are all from the collections of Kevin Calder, Peter Nicholson, Adrian Howe, Peter McCaroll, Barry Hilton and David Imrie who are all members of the League. Other members of the LOGW are Dale Smith, Colin Jack, Dave O'Brien, Brigadier Charles S Grant, Andrew Nicholson, Andrew Thomson, Steve Shaw and Angus Konstam. The rules used for this game were Republic to Empire by Barry Hilton.

The game was covered in detail with great photos (not by me) in a recent issue of Battlegames.













As always the figures and game by the LOGW as well as The League of Augsburg are excellent and recommend anyone going to see their games.

There is a little video footage to come. It's the closest to seeing it "live".

Wargames 1st September 2008 and The Other Partizan

There were several games at the club last week. 1 Renaissance, 1 World War One and a Rapid Fire! WW2 game. The Rapid Fire! game will be posted separately.

Before I begin though I went to The Other Partizan at Kelham Hall yesterday with Dave Tuck and Martin Buck. Bumped into a few other members while we were there. Really enjoyed it. Took photos and some video footage again. Most of the photos came out as usual. Trying a new technique for taking photos after bumping into Henry Hyde of Battlegames who himself was taking photos. During my travels I also had the pleasure of meeting Barry Hilton, who also writes for Battlegames, met David Imrie again and finally got to meet Richard Tyndall of the Newark Irregulars who was, yes you guessed it, also taking photos. Been a huge fan of Richard's photo's for years now. Talked to him a little about taking photos too. Enjoyed the show. I did like the Perry's game. It was nice to see Operation Goodwood, put on display again by the Derby Wargames Society.

First, the WW1 game on the trench boards. Paul Robinson was playing against his son James. They were all Paul's figures. James was attacking with the Doughboys while Paul was defending as the Germans.

The WW1 game on the trench boards.

Them Doughboys are approaching...

Some Entrenched Germans.

The Renaissance game. Playing were Dave Tuck, Mike Barnatt and Darren (sorry didn't catch his surname) as the French using Dave's figures. Mark Alcock and John Ogden were the Spanish.

French Soldiers under Mike's Control.

The Spanish. Think these chaps are on Knight Duty (pun intended).

Partizan 2008: Crossing of the Boyne 1690 (Battle of the Boyne)

My favourite game of the entire show and probably the best photos I produced of the entire show put on by The League of Augsburg. I believe I spoke to David Imrie at the time. Didn't catch his surname when talking to him. Lent Dave my mini bendy tripod so that he could take photos of his game while I took some more of mine. Unfortunately did not get a chance to talk to Barry Hilton who was also putting on the game. The game used Barry's "Beneath the Lily Banners" rules. Barry has also written for the excellent Battlegames Magazine.
Their leaflet at the show stated to the effect that The Battle of the Boyne had been misrepresented throughout history as the actual facts were somewhat different.

Since the show I have looked at the League of Augsburg website. It is excellent with loads of great photos. There are photos of past demo games on there which I now regret missing so will be paying more attention to the LOA boys in future.

To close my coverage of Partizan, here are my photos of the League of Augsburg's "Battle of the Boyne". Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them.