| Quindia | 07 Dec 2013 10:11 a.m. PST |
Donnybrook is a fast paced skirmish game designed to cover conflicts across the globe from 1660 to 1760. The basic game of requires a force of 12-48 models, depending on their quality, and one character who represents the player on the table top. Games are played on a 4x4' table. You can add additional units and additional characters as you like, as long as both sides use the same conventions, though you'll need a larger table as you increase the numbers! Donnybrook uses a card driven turn system that creates exciting, unpredictable play. Besides leading government troops into battle, you can choose mobs of armed peasants, murderous brigands, religious fanatics, sinister cultists, ferocious highlanders, or tribal natives. This book includes the rules, faction lists, weapons primer, random events, seven scenarios, and a period and theater guide. The game will be available for pre-order in the next few weeks…
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 PaulCollins  | 07 Dec 2013 11:04 a.m. PST |
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| morrigan | 07 Dec 2013 11:36 a.m. PST |
Does sound interesting. Bit more information here: link |
| richarDISNEY | 07 Dec 2013 11:46 a.m. PST |
Looks cool.
Keep us posted on the progress.
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| kreoseus2 | 07 Dec 2013 11:53 a.m. PST |
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| RazorMind | 07 Dec 2013 11:58 a.m. PST |
I believe the name came from an Irish festival in a town called Donnybrooke. Apparently it got way out of hand until it was banned, hence a Donnybrooke came to mean a rowdy affair. Seems interesting. |
| kreoseus2 | 07 Dec 2013 12:18 p.m. PST |
Cool, I lived near Donnybrook for years, I didn't realise it had given its name to something. Thanks Razormind, Phil |
| princeman | 07 Dec 2013 4:44 p.m. PST |
Sounds like a set of rules written by Steve Lawrence for Old Glory years ago.
Greg |
| jgibbons | 07 Dec 2013 5:08 p.m. PST |
I like skirmish rules for almost any period… Looks well produced |
| jocknroll | 07 Dec 2013 9:53 p.m. PST |
Donnybrook actually got used as a word by Marge Simpson on a re run episode recently when her good deeds with children.. the Young Braves.. turned into a Donnybrook! Donnybrook is actually not a town but a district of the city of Dublin |
| kreoseus2 | 08 Dec 2013 3:42 a.m. PST |
It was a town years ago. It got swallowed up by Dublin as the city grew to fill in all the spaces between. Cool looking game, unusual setting. Phil |
| Ewan Hoosami | 08 Dec 2013 5:00 a.m. PST |
Donnybrook is just north of Melbourne at the edge of the suburban fringe. |
| Grand Dragon | 08 Dec 2013 6:30 a.m. PST |
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| abdul666lw | 08 Dec 2013 10:57 a.m. PST |
Probably not difficult -by proportioning characteristics found elsewhere -to extend to weird 18th C. games link with 'creatures' such as deep ones, ghouls link, Hudre link, vampires, werewolves… and 'advanced' weapons, be they historical such as the Girandoni Air Rifle link, the Ferguson rifle link, Philip V's breech-loading musket link, the Nock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nock_gun and Puckle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckle_gun guns (and a 'handgun' version of this last), the hand mortar link, the Byzantine Greek fire hand-siphon link… or less so such as Leyden jars throwers TMP link (pneumatic link or crossbows)… Btw I greatly appreciate how the cover does homage to Frazetta  |
| jocknroll | 08 Dec 2013 9:26 p.m. PST |
The rules already accommodate the 'weird' element of 17th/18th century under the Faction: Cultists. Although weapon types you mentioned are not specifically included in the rules they could easily be incorporated. Terror is the main feature of the Cultist faction whether real or imagined/ We do have plans to extend the reach of Donnybrook to a more fantastical dimension of wargaming but we'll just get the main book out first! |
 20thmaine | 09 Dec 2013 10:57 a.m. PST |
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| kreoseus2 | 09 Dec 2013 12:01 p.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 10 Dec 2013 5:17 p.m. PST |
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| kreoseus2 | 11 Dec 2013 12:00 a.m. PST |
That link, my ears…..my brain hurts… |
| 20thmaine | 11 Dec 2013 7:02 a.m. PST |
Aww….I like Dr Strangely Strange, one of the great bands of the late 60's psych-folk scene. IMHO. Great live too. |
| kreoseus2 | 11 Dec 2013 3:08 p.m. PST |
I thought I was bad with hawkwind |
| jocknroll | 15 Dec 2013 3:00 a.m. PST |
Update on pre order timings; We expect the book to be available for pre order the week before Christmas for shipping wk 2 2014. |
| 20thmaine | 16 Dec 2013 4:19 a.m. PST |
What's wrong with hawkwind ? |
| Joe Legan | 30 Dec 2013 9:50 a.m. PST |
Any update on this? I would like to pre order for my pirate games. Joe |
| richarDISNEY | 31 Dec 2013 4:16 p.m. PST |
What's wrong with hawkwind ? What's good with it?   |
| jocknroll | 10 Jan 2014 11:52 a.m. PST |
The new skirmish rules for the period have gone up for pre order today for a discounted price at: leagueofaugsburg.com Shipping should be before 31 January. Donnybrook is a fast and fun skirmish game which is easy to pick up and full of period flavour. The book is 110 pages of rich colour with 186 beautiful photographs, maps, original artwork, seven scenarios, example game in comic strip format, period primer for numerous conflicts, faction guides/force builder, points system and comes with a satin finish full colour A4 QRS. In is soft cover and perfect bound. The book also contains a force roster sheet template. The book will revert to its normal price when it goes on general release at the end of January 2014. The book will not be available at shows until February earliest. Trade orders will go out after the pre orders. |
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