Thursday 14 August 2014

Donnybrook first few points.

For those of you who have not come across the "Donnybrook" rules they are a skirmish set of rules base in the 1660-1760 period. On the "League of Augsburg" Forum these rules have been used for everything from  The second world war to Medieval. Yes they are that versatile. It has taken me a long while to settle on exactly what period I would do. Firstly I thought of Tangiers 1661-1668 (the British Possession). My next choice was Hernan Cortez and the Conquest of the Aztecs. But I did settle on Queen Anne's War eventually. Not because it is a period or war I am totally drawn towards but because I already had enough figures for the period. So I swapped them from the Wars of Spanish Succession to Queen Anne's War.

For those of you LIKE Myself who do not understand what Queen Anne's war was all about here is a LINK. For those not interested in following that link and reading the real history, it is the second of the French Indian Wars (the first being King Williams War). So Just think of the Queen Anne's War as being the War of Spanish Succession (WSS) but set in the new world of the Americas. AS such It was Britain with their Native American Allies against but the Spanish and the French and their Native American Allied tribes.

2 Points
 To make a balanced force the "Donnybrook" rules allow a certain amount of points, Usually 4 Points. And Depending on how skilled you want the troops to be the less troops you get for a single point the more proficient these troops will be. As such I have 2 points of British "Drilled" troops each with a character. There are a choice of characters depending on which faction you are building. Army, as this is, has different characters from "outlaws" "Tribal" "Civilian Mob""Cultish" or "Witch-hunters" for example. So for these points I have 8 drilled foot and a musician (drummer) in one group and 8 "drilled" foot and a sergeant as my second point.

My third Point is an elite grenadier squad of only 4 figures with a commander as the character. I will make this squad bigger as reading the advice on the form 4 elite figures are not that effective. Therefore I will expand this to 8 figures in the next few weeks. I have not done it yet as I will need to split a few packs to increase the numbers.
My last Point for now is a piece of artillery. There should be a character with these, but I simply forgot to include him in the photograph. Opps! Artillery are purely optional in the rules and once I expand the forces and have more options I will most likely not use it so much. But I have 3 artillery pieces (2 more to Paint) so I thought why not.

I have started 2 points of French as an opposition, so will try to crack on with them pretty soon.

All these figures are by BLACK HAT in 15mm scale. As such once we start playing I may use centimetres in stead of inches for movement and ranges. Time will tell for sure.

Thanks for looking today and I hope this change of scale and project does not throw anyone too much. Paint Monkey is also busy at the moment and you may expects some more 28mm figures on Sunday or Monday. That said I will post turn 3 results on Saturday for the Age of sail naval game. So If you have yet to send me a turn, time is running out!

That's it for today See you again on Saturday if I am lucky.

Cheers Clint

28 comments:

  1. I too share your love for Donnybrook and I am still trying to find a period to do, flipping between ECW or ECW is the states to King Williams War to doing AWI. I hope that I can make my mind up some though as the rules look so good and fun to play.

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    1. That is one of the joys of "Donnybrook" there really are a lot of choices once you start looking. I settled on Queen Anne's war mostly because I had all the figure I need to get started. All your choices sound good to me and I do seriously wish you luck in choosing. Thank you Petal.

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    2. I have mainly Dark Ages and Interwar figures so it will a new period for me. Oh I have ECW so that might be the way to good, lol

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    3. Nothing wrong with new periods. And ECW should work fine for those little skirmishes. Thanks Petal.

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  2. I might even do Border Reivers with them but your your forces Clint look good and fit the period well.

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  3. Will you be doing a post on the game mechanics? I thought about getting the rules when they came out, but want to learn more about the game before making the purchase.

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    1. Thanks Shelldrake. The game mechanics are pretty straight forward so I will not do a whole post on them. But when I do a Bat rep I will no doubt mention some of them.

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  4. Yup. Thanks to Ray at Salute this year I have also succumbed to the rules of donnybrook. Damn good they are too. Nice miniatures mate.




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    1. Yeah that sounds about right. I had Ray and a couple of others twist my arm enough to make me open my wallet. Thank you Carl

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  5. Definitely interested to see how the game plays Clint

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    1. I am hoping to play it next Sunday IF I get enough painted in time.
      Thank you ZA

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  6. Donnybrook has caught me somewhat unawares - I've heard of it but had all but written it off as a minor ruleset for a less popular period. However, it seems to be much more popular than I had imagined. So I'm most interested to hear about other people's experiences...

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    1. Thank you C6. In Many ways I do think you are right with regard to period at least. The rules are very simple and are padded out (but in a very nice way). They are not designed for competitions or very competitive play so they will always fit within a niche. I do Like what I have read and how they will fit into a period. The rules are very simple though and I think between friends will give a good game.

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  7. Not my bag sir, but still looking good.

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    1. Thank you Bob. We can't all like everything. Ican't get on that well with ECW for example.

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  8. Very nice Clint!!! What unit do the figures represent? ;0)

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    1. Thank you Ray. These figures represent English troops. They do not represent a particular unit as that would limit them to a particular location or battle. And if they were used for anything other than that location and Battle the game would become more Fantasy that I intend.

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  9. It is not something that particularly appeals to me but as long as you like the rules and figures then that's all that counts. Just have fun!

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    1. I will try to have fun Bryan. Cheers Mate. Just remembered I need 2 extra ships for tomorrow. Ahhhhh I need to get them painted and quick!

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  10. An interesting venture, one I'll look forward to reading about. I'm always wary about rules that have a premis of "points" for force selection, but I'm guessing it could be dispensed with.
    Your initial forces look sound and I was quite surprised that they were in fact 15s -very impressive brushwork !
    IIRC the fact that your infantry have blue cuffs limits them to certain regiments and couple that with how many served in a particular theatre of the war, I'm guessing the unti could be one of only a few present despite your best efforts to have a generic force. (just joking)

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    1. Thank you Joe. You are correct, the blue facings were taken from the "Welch" Regiment as I could not find any in Queen Anne's War. But for this venture they will just act as a standard regiment. I agree about points, it is far better to have an objective than a points setting in games, but I guess they wanted to keep it "Fair".

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  11. These all look fab Clint. Not my period but I shall enjoy reading your batreps and looking at lovely painted figures none the less

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    1. Thank you Simon. I am not sure this is many peoples period of choice. But time will tell.

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  12. Having grown up in the Northeast I walked some of the battle grounds so I'd have to say good period choice. Nice looking regulars I would not have pegged them as 15mm.

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    1. Thank you very much Robert. I don't know much about the period at all or the terrain or battles! So I will follow your comments with the up most care.
      And thank you for the compliment on my painting. I have some Indians and French to show soon. And looking to get some cavalry done as well.

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  13. Not a fan of the period myself, but you had me at the conquest of Americas. That's another thing I'd like to do one day...at least the natives' side :D

    And I agree, the paintjob is great, I wasn't sure if they were 15mm, either!

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    1. Thank you Mathyoo. Conquest of America would be good, but as I already have all the figures this just makes more sense. But at least It has given me the chance to read two books on the Aztecs.

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