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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm Bill Gilchrist laid on a nice-looking Peninsular game, set in the aftermath of Wellington’s victory over the French at Vittoria (1813). Here’s his game report; It was a Donald Adamson scenario involving his hero Capitaine Gerard (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictitious character) in which a British Force (commanded by
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This, the second “Bonaparte in Italy” game played out this month was a straightforward encounter battle, with both sides beginning the game fully deployed and raring to go. The Austrians were penalised with a slightly worse Command Rating (7 rather than 8), but proved crucial when the dice started
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm In last month’s “Bonaparte in Italy” we used Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, which is quite good, but a little quirky. This time we played the game using the tried and tested Black Powder. Actually, it was only tried and tested by me – Angus – the other
The Napoleonic Wars, Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, 28mm At long last I managed to bring my Austrian army of 1796 up to two brigades, plus horse and guns, and so, after borrowing my pal Chris Henry’s very pretty French, I was finally able to stage a small game. This was a fictitious battle,
The Napoleonic Wars, Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, 28mm The second of our try-outs of “Warfare in the Age of Napoleon” involved a fictitious French attack on an equally fictitious British-held village called El Casa Vaggio. The village was the outpost of an area occupied by the British, and was held by a Highland
The Napoleonic Wars, Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, 28mm I like it when other people are supplying the toys, and I don’t have to haul several boxes of lead to the wargame club. This was one of those occasions, when Dave Imrie brought along his Russians, and Dougie Trail supplied the French. Better still,
The Napoleonic Wars, Lasalle, 28mm This week’s game report is brought to you by Bill Gilchrist, as Angus was laid low by an eye infection. Unable to read, write, wargame, watch war films or paint, he was reduced to listening to an audio book from Edinburgh Library instead of coming out to play. At least
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm Our last game of the year was a Peninsular affair, with the British, Portuguese and Spanish defending, and the French assaulting their positions – or trying to. I say French, but one of the two attacking infantry divisions was a Bavarian one. I know they never really appeared in
The Napoleonic Wars, General de Brigade, 28mm A few of us from the Edinburgh club were invited to take part in a refight of Borodino, laid on by the Leuchars Wargames Club. Leuchars is about 50 miles north of Edinburgh, close to the university town of St. Andrews. I’d already lent my Russian army for
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This week we used a scenario from Charles S. Grant’s Scenarios for Wargames (WRG 1980), an old staple when we can’t think of a scenario for ourselves. This one was based around the retreat from Moscow in 1812. Please excuse the lack of snow – we didn’t have a
