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* Known as 'Bluidy Claverhouse' to many from his campaigning against the Covenanters in the South ... tenant in Sir William Lockhart's Scots Regiment. This regiment was under the command of the Duke of Mon... ttle of Seneffe and rescued the young Prince when his horse fell in marshy ground. As a reward for his actions Dundee received a Captain’s commission. Two y
fe of King James VII and II gave birth to a son. This brought home to those that he had upset with his toleration of Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters that this policy would continue. Accordingly a number of English nobles and bishops invited his son-in-law, Prince William of Orange, to come to
====== Awa' to the Hills ======
This game is about the Highland campaign of Viscount Dundee, King James... iament's declaration that James VII had forfeited his Crown Viscount Dundee returned home to his heavily pregnant wife at Dudhope just north of Dundee. After a few weeks he had gathered about him some of his very loyal troop of Horse. They rode out to Dunde
the intrigues and conflicts of Scottish politics. His preference would be to retire to the continent where he could live his life in peace.
He had been on the point of surr... arres]] discovered him in the process of removing his personal belongings and furniture from the castle
cally obligatory for every Pashtun.
Elements in this code of behavior are often in opposition to the S... dali of Kandahar established the Durrani Empire. This one-time general in Nadir Shah's Persian army was... h takes decisions by consensus. The legitimacy of his rule was sanctioned at the same time by the ulama... nd was henceforth known as Ahmad Shah Durrani and his tribe, the Pashtun Abdali tribe, as the Durrani.
wn as a staunch Williamite
* seeking to recover his father's estates and restore the Earldom of Argyll which was attainted when his father supported an uprising against King James V... rt, 4th Earl of Moray, Campbell sought to recover his father's estates (by moving into King James VII's
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* [[Argyll]]((technically not an Earl as his father was attainted in 1685 for his part in an uprising against King James VII)) //**[2]**//
===== U... torically chosen as the interlocutor between the Convention and the Castle for this reason //**[3]**//
vel of participation than most groups do. Partly this is down to the requirement on membership that eac... e other necessary preparations for running them. This means that there are some half-finished, or just ... ) which decided that King James VII had forfeited his crown and that it should be offered to Prince Wil
es:clwg:1689:people:James|King James VII]] wrote this letter while he was aboard the St Michael on the ... il members had asked him to send and substituted this less than helpful version in its place. It was d... ether at our good town of Edinburgh some time in this instant March by the usurped authority of the [[:... y and disgrace you must bring upon yourselves in this world, and the condemnation due to the rebellious
actics, professionals talk logistics//". Well in this game the Sergeants are the professionals that deal with logistics. Most of the contents of this section are only carried out by those players act... u can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge box.
The young ones car... d |
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====== Bounce into Action ======
This is a provisional title for a series of games set in Jim Wallman's... (min two each)
===== Level of Resolution =====
This should be two-down from the main action level. Th... ilitia with assault rifles in sections of eight. This should allow more flexibility for the better arme... rules I am going to use a ten minute time slice. This doesn't mean that all that time will be used by u
ng battles and taking ground from the enemy. For this you need infantry.
===== Overview =====
There i... than required to reach the next level. Units at this level that survive sufficient actions to become /... ls, discipline and rudimentary weapons handling, this is equivalent to the first phase of basic trainin... non-infantry Militia (except officers) fight at this level if required to do so as infantry. At this l
====== Who Are the Taliban ======
this is mostly from a BBC report, but I have edited it a little.
Th... led by Mullah Omar, a village clergyman who lost his right eye fighting the occupying forces of the So... els not seen since 2001.
Their retreat earlier this decade enabled them to limit their human and mate
