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Big Bicentennial Bashes
The 200th anniversary of Salamanca was recognised in fine style by the team at the Hall of Heroes in Bankstown, NSW Australia. Read Sparker's fine account of their great scenario game—with fabulous...
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More Salamanca and more
Everytime that I skim over my favourite wargames blogs, I seem to discover more 'gems', either directly, or via links.The latest in my exploration of the latter is Murdock from BC Canada and his mini...
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Games Completed and Game Plans
The Battle of Maloyaroslavets was another of the slog-fest battles that typified the 1812 Russian campaign.Such was the case with the game based on the battle that was staged at the recent Historicon...
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Borodino 200th—T minus 19 days
It is nearly upon us, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, and what a lot of activity we have in preparation for the .Lejeune's famous painting of Borodino, showing a packed and chaotic...
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Borodino Bicentennial: Antipodean Re-fights and European Re-enactments
View of the Borodino diorama thanks to Xenophon Group (http://www.xenophon-mil.org/rushistory/borodino/bordio3xx.htm)The bicentennial of the Battle of Borodino was marked in fine style by at least four...
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Further Borodino Bicentennial Games
In preparation for the great battle, Luca's Kutusov has visited one of the icons that will be shown to the waiting Russian army. See more photos of this and his beautiful terrain, surely the best...
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1812 campaign journals, Maloyaroslavets and more Borodino
With October comes the beginning of the closing stages of the 1812 Campaign, the virtual destruction of the once Grande Armée and the beginning of the end for Napoleonic France.It all began with the...
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Borodino diorama in 1/72nd scale
While not wargames, our hobbies are so closely linked—with many people doing both wargames and dioramas/model-making—so I could not resist posting a link to these marvellous efforts from the...
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The calm before another Borodino storm
Luca is all set for his big bicentennial game of Borodino. Check out his set-up and marvellously modelled terrain for the big game.
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Great games from either end of the Napoleonic period
We have followed the development of Luca's 2012 Borodino project for some months. Two years of planning and development have now culminated in a fantastic game to commemorate the bicentennial of the...
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Borodino 2012 Marauder style: a tale in four parts
JJ from the Mortimer St Marauders has posted a marvellous description of the design and set-up of their bicentennial game of Borodino; the second part of four about the game.This one features comments...
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The Battles of the Retreat
I have recently become aware of some great games based on the battles of the retreat from Moscow that have been staged by the Ateliers of the Portes d'argent who, while they have moved from the rue des...
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As the bicentennial of 1812 draws to a close...
This week marked the bicentennial of the passage of the Berezina and the battles of Brili and Studianka.We now enter the last month of the bicentennial of the campaign of 1812. You can follow the...
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1813 here we come...
This way to the 1813 bicentennial and more miniature glory!The bicentennial of the 1812 campaign 'officially' ended with the last of the member of the once Grande Armée departing Russian soil on 14th...
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NWA starts 1813 bicentennial
The gents at the Nuawading Wargames Association have begun the bicentennial of the 1813 campaign with a HUGE game of the Battle of Dennewitz, 6th September 1813. This is wargaming at its best; a large,...
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Hall of Heroes Planning To Recognise Another 200th
The Hall of Heroes from Campbelltown NSW, Australia were one of the groups that put on a game for the bicentennial of Borodino in 2012. Now they are planning another big bicentennial bash, this time...
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Eylau in 54 mm
I thought that this game of the Battle of Eylau, 8th February 1807 in 54 mm was too good not to bring to the attention of followers of this blog.Still from the YouTube video of the PMCD Mobilisatie...
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Lützen bicentennial game
A wargaming weekend at the at Deeside Defenders in North Wales provided Will and his wargames colleagues with "an opportunity for a big Napoleonic game using Black Powder".So they decided to do a game...
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Lützen 200th at the Hall of Heroes
In February we reported on the plans of Sparker and the other gents at the Hall of Heroes in Campbelltown NSW, Australia to stage a bicentennial game of the Battle of Lützen (2nd May 1813).Well, true...
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Lützen Again!
The Avon Napoleonic Fellowship have begun their bicentennial games for 2013 similarly to the other groups reported here: with a re-fight of the Battle of Lützen. Read all about the first part of the...
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