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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

A lull in the movements of the armies

I was supposed to travel last night, and spend a fruitful night in a hotel room trying out my new portable wargame, but unfortunately the trip was cancelled. It may be just as well, really, as spare time has been very hard to come by, and my armies are completely absent of artillery at this moment.

Tonight I may have time to finish the guns, however. If fortune smiles on me, this will mark quite a milestone. This will be, as odd as this may sound, the first time I've completed a matched pair of wargaming armies.

The armies will have units sufficient to fight almost all of the scenarios in Charles Grants "Scenarios for Wargamers," except for a few cavalry units on the British side. This lack stems from the origin of these figures. I created them in order to refight the battle of Quatre Bras, using one stand to represent each brigade of infantry or cavalry, and one stand per battery of artillery. The British and Allied army had only two cavalry brigades at Quatre Bras, the cavalry of the Brunswick Corps, and the Dutch 3rd Light Brigade. I plan to add a few more units of cavalry once I have time to create them. Some British Light Dragoons and Hussars, and perhaps a unit of Horse Guards, would be nice additions.

I hope to have pictures of these armies up on the blog here in the next few days. And perhaps, spare time providing, a battle between the mock-forces of Baden-Hundsheim and Formulgala, before long. Stay tuned.

4 comments:

  1. Just a reminder that there are several "mini-campaigns" of linked scenarios from Grant's books on the following "Emperor vs Elector" group blog:

    http://emperor-elector.blogspot.com/2012/02/responses-to-mini-campaign-challenge.html

    Got to the linked posts from the above page to get details of each mini-campaign . . . some might be just right for your armies.


    -- Jeff

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  2. Thanks Jeff. An excellent suggestion. I'd meant to try my own hand at creating a mini-campaign to meet your challenge. We'll see which comes first: time to create my own entry, or time to play a game using someone else's.

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