The Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm Once in a while you take part in a game that simply takes your breath away. This was one of them. A few years ago, historic novelist Iain Gale told me he had some Waterloo terrain stored in a shed. Six months ago he told me he had dug

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This was the second game using Chris Henry’s figures this month. Usually he has a band practice on Thursdays, but his bass player is also an accountant, and January is his “busy time”. With Chris at a loose end, we grabbed this opportunity to play with his Bonaparte in

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm You don’t often get to play two big Napoleonic games in a week – but this month it happened. Last weekend was Borodino – this weekend we refought Lutzen – or at least most of it. The venue was the Old Manor House Hotel in Lundin Links, Fife –

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm First off, let me apologise for the quality of the pictures. My camera and I were clearly having an off day. Now, this was a big weekend game, played out by the AB1 group of Edinburgh wargamers. We played it in a hotel in Lundin Links in Fife, about

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This game organised by Bill Gilchrist was very loosely based on the rearguard action at Redinha on the River  Soure, during the French retreat from Portugal in 1811. The real battle was something of a triumph for Ney, who was the man on the spot. He held off Wellington’s

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This game report is brought to you by Dougie Trail: This was a fictional Peninsular Campaign engagement dreamed up by John Glass, who owns a Spanish army. The premise was that after the battle Albuera (16th May) the battered French troops under Marshall Soult were withdrawing to the south.

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This was a rare event these days – an evening when Dougie Trail and I were both in the SESWC in Edinburgh. We celebrated by taking our Peninsular War figures out for a spin. Dougie commanded the French (assisted by Bart Zynda), while I look charge of the Anglo-Portuguese.

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm With Angus down in London, this review – and game – is brought to you by Bill Gilchrist; This weeks game was the Battle of Perekrjostok, a purely fictional action set somewhere on the northern flank of the Grand Armée during its invasion of Russia in 1812. It was

The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm Although it sounds a little like a certain Hollywood director, Tarutino (or Vinkovo) was a battle fought in Russia during the French invasion of 1812. In the real scrap, the Russians trounced Marshal Murat’s French, or rather his  ad-hoc force which included French and German cavalry, and Polish infantry.