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".

Partizan 2008: The Forgotten Bits

While looking through the blog and poking about my hard drive, I realised there were a large group of photos that have not yet seen the light of day. Being somewhat distracted with one thing or another recently has meant that only half my photos from The Other Partizan 2008 had been put up with the other half yet to come.

It will be rectified in the next few weeks. The remaining photos still have not yet been sorted out. Here are a few appetisers in the meantime:

1st Carlist War by Perry Miniatures.

Ligny 1815 by the League of Gentlemen Wargamers.

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.