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Battle of Vitoria Bicentennial: 21st June 2013
The bicentennial of this decisive battle is almost upon us, but it has not escaped Rafa Pardo who has posted this excellent summary of the battle c/- the military history site.The bicentennial will be...
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Wargaming Vitoria in two parts
Rafa Pardo has posted a summary of his bicentennial game of Vitoria (well, sort of—he staged it back in 2007!) that he conducted in two parts.See his post about the games here.
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Recreating Vitoria for the Bicentennial
'Pushing Tin' has posted photos and a description of their bicentennial game of the Battle of Vitoria, the first eight turns anyway.You can see from this example photograph that they use the 'mass'...
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Borodino Bicentennial Again
The Nunawading Wargames Association deferred their game of the bicentennial of Borodino to the end of this year (actually it will be played early in the New Year, I believe). Their plans are moving...
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The rearguard action that saved an army
Mike and his wargaming friends in Bloomington Illinois recently staged a great game based on the First Battle of Krasnoi, 14th August 1812. This was the fighting retreat by Neverovski's outnumbered...
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Waterloo 198
Fourteen bonnie Scots gathered on the 198th anniversary of the famous battle to stage a magnificent re-fight in 28 mm, using the Black Powder rules.How's this for a representation of the fighting...
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Lutzen at SESWC
This is a bit of a 'catch up'.The South East Scotland Wargames Club, who staged that marvellous game of Waterloo on the 198th anniversary this year ran a game based on the Battle of Lutzen back in...
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Waterloo 197
The Garage Gamers from Brisbane, Australia put on this great looking game of Waterloo last year as a demo.The game was held at a Railway Hobby Show, so they chose to stage a game of a well known...
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Lützen Triple
Games based on Lützen have been a favourite in this bicentennial of 1813. Several have already been noted on this blog (see tab 1813 : 2013 above). Today we catch up on three that were staged by a...
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Vitoria finalised and Quatre Bras Play-test
Links this time to two great looking games in 6 mm.Firstly, the final part of Pushing Tin's trilogy reporting on their anniversary game of Vitoria, a link to the first part of this epic game was...
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An inspiration
When thinking about wargaming the bicentennial of 1813 one name springs to mind; Rafa Pardo.Rafa has, through is Wargaming with Napoleonic Miniatures website and Project Leipzig (1813) blog created not...
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Borodino 201
A year to the day from the bicentennial of the Battle of Borodino, the Avon Napoleonic Fellowship have posted more photos of their grand bicentennial bash.Here is an example:Click on this link to view...
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Borodino from the 90s
It happened long before the bicentennial, but what the heck!Mark from the One Sided Miniature Discourse has posted some beaut photos of a game of Borodino that he was involved in in the early 1990s.The...
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Liphook does Leipzig
The Liphook Historical Wargames group have played out a magnificent game of the Battle of Leipzig in this bicentennial year.They did not quite cover it all but, played over three tables, it was a...
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Solo Waterloo
Solo wargamer Phil from York has been at it again, this time with an impressive, brigade scale game of the Battle of Waterloo.
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Back to the early years
Wargamer Rabbit Michael and his monthly Napoleonic group have continued their progress through the Northern Italian Campaign of 1796 with a marvellous game of the Battle of Lodi.Great to see those...
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1813 'Bicentennial' Games Played, In-Play and Planned
A few anitpodean 'bicentennial beauties' for you all.Dennewitz 200 PlayedIn a bold move, Sparker and the group (usually) from the Hall of Heroes staged a bicentennial game of Dennewitz... to be played...
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Simply Magnificient
Battle of Leipzig re-fight in New Zealand• Over 10,000 figures in 28mm scale• Around 40 players• Played on twenty 6'x4' tables!It's choice bro'!Check out the posts from our correspondent Mark the...
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More Leipzig Bicentennial Games
'Pushing Tin' has again observed the bicentennial of a significant Napoleonic battle with a marvellous game in 6 mm.This time it was the Battle of Liebertwolkwitz (a tricky one for we non-Germans!),...
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Another game of Lützen completed
We have previously featured the early stages of Phil from York, UK's solo bicentennial game of the Battle of Lützen.Now completed, a report of this close-fought, fine looking game can be found here.
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