"Best Jacobite Battle for Wargaming?" Topic

Which battle from the Jacobite Wars makes the best wargaming scenario?

Culloden with the Jacobites being all together and achieving surprise with their attack march.

Prestonpans, to start the campaign and terrify the British player.

All of them.

Falkirk is a nice balanced scenario that either side can win. Plus you get a battle where highlanders on foot Charge and scare off mounted British Dragoons.

I'd go with Falkirk too.

I would do Prestonpans as it is just a few miles down road.

I would adjust things to make it a fair battle.

what about bonnie Dundee?

what about bonnie Dundee?

What about him?

Killikrankie is a good battle to fight, a shame Bonnie Dundee got in the way of his own musketeers

Boyne
Aughrim

From the little I know, Falkirk seems like a good battle.

Sheriffmuir 1715- a fascinating battle where each army's right wing routed their opponents and turned through ninety degrees to confront each other for the eventual drawn tactical engagement- though strategic government victory.

It also had the spectacle of the Scots Greys (who- a government officer noted- "are never backward on these occasions") piling into their Jacobite opponents with Napoleonic fury.

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What about "Bonnie Dundee"/"Bluidy Clavers" (Claverhouse)? It's a reminder that The Wars of the British Succession – [c.] RG 2020 – involved not only the '45, and the Rising of 1715, but, as mildbill implies and others adduce, the earlier campaigns in both Scotland and Ireland. Sherrifmuir as a wargame has, as far as I understand, the added attraction of the presence of Rob Roy MacGregor and crew, waiting to join in with the winning side and eventually plundering the dead of both. Suas Alba!

Working up forces for Killcrankie now, thanks for the idea!

I was also thinking that Killiecrankie would be fun- it's a doable size and could have gone either way. One I hope to do, some day.

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