IRELAND 1798 (50-100AP)

IRELAND 1798 (50-100AP)

(Tara, New Ross, Antrim, Ballynahinch, Vinegar Hill, Castlebar, Ballinamuck).

BRITISH – Aggression: 4

1 x Inert HQ (Cornwallis) @ 10AP or CP (Lake) @ 15AP, 0-1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP (Lake if not C-in-C), 0-1 x Light Cavalry (British) @ 5AP, 0-1 x Inferior Light Cavalry (Irish Yeomanry) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Bayonets (Scotch Fencibles) @ 4AP, 3-10 x Inferior Bayonets (Irish Militia) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (5^th/60^th) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP, 0-1 x Sail Flagship @ 16AP, 0-2 x Sail @ 6AP, 0-2 x Inferior Sail (Frigates) @ 4AP.

IRISH REBEL – Aggression: 3.

1 x Inert CP (committee, unworldly priest or drunken Napper Tandy) @ 5 AP, 2-15 x Elite Spearmen (pikes) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Inferior Marksmen @ 1AP.

FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY ALLIES (IF PRESENT) – Aggression: 1

1 x CP (Humbert) @ 15AP, 2-4 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Sail Flagship @ 16AP, 0-3 x Inferior Sail (Frigates) @ 4AP.

Notes: The minimum army size allows a quickly gathered scratch force of British to fight either an Irish rebel army or the small French force that arrived after the main risings were defeated, reinforced by Irish remnants. The maximum size allows the much larger French force, readied but not landed, to join with the main rebel armies before these were dispersed; and then be used against the gathered British forces. Cornwallis was a conciliator, Lake a fiery avenger, Humbert baffled. Irish yeomanry were Protestants, militia mainly Catholic. Neither they nor the rebels gave quarter or were kind to civilians of the wrong persuasion. The most able Irish rebel leader, the Wolf Tone (a Protestant), never landed and suicided after his French ship was taken. The most attractive, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, was killed at the outset of the rebellion in a failed coup against Dublin. In a large game, Irish and French should start separated on a large table and attempt to concentrate, with Cornwallis and Lake trying to defeat them in detail.