The Chauvinistic Blog

A deliberately tongue-in-cheek title for a blog dedicated to the Napoleonic era, from the point of view of a Napoleonic history 'buff' and wargamer. "Reddition d'Ulm, 20 octobre 1805" from Wikimedia Commons

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Battle of Abensberg (north), 20th April 1809


Scenario based on north of Battle of Eckmühl, 22nd April 1809


Scenario based on action around Laichling, 22nd April 1809


Battle of Salamanca, 22nd July 1812


Battle of Liebertwolkwitz, 14th October 1813

Initial report, Conclusion, Umpire's report & conclusion


Battle of Quatre Bras, 16th June 1815


Naval

 Battle of Cape Finisterre, 22nd July 1805

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  • Solo Slow Wargaming
    Operation Z or planning Operation AI: constructing the Kido Batai (2) the pleasure of little things - When I first began acquiring these 1/700 models, I wondered why there was such a range of prices for, seemingly, the same model of the same ship. Then I re...
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  • Wargaming Waterloo 2015
    Hougoumont at 1:3 scale - a late report - *West Country Hougoumont* There were such a lot of photos on this game that it took me over 18 months to get round to doing a proper report on my blog. Ja...
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  • Obfuscation
    This is the second 'rant' post in a week. I shan't make a habit of it, I promise. This blog should be about figures, books, his...
  • Great Wargaming Survey 2025
      Jonathan over at Palouse Wargaming Journal alerted me that the 2025 edition of this questionnaire is now open. I am a serial 'data po...
  • Book review: l'Infanterie de ligne 1796–1810 by André Joineau and Jean-Marie Mongin
    I love uniform books ; especially Napoleonic and particularly about the French army (doubt that I am alone in that amongst readers of this b...
  • Developing the love of two
    French 9e cuirassiers at two scales. A few comments on my recent 'update' post lead me to check when I first purchased some 2 mm fi...
  • Battle of Cape Finisterre, 22nd July 1805
    Yesterday Julian hosted a fine naval game , the culmination of months of recent planning and testing of the rules , based on the Battle of C...

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    I have been to... the London Mithraeum - I had an hour or 2 to kill in London last Sunday afternoon while my wife was at an appointment so I finally got round to visiting the Mithraeum which is...
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  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Restarting Pike to Bayonet. Again. - Been a bit of a mixed week. Firstly eldest daughter, husband and granddaughter came to visit during half term. Then we had Martin Wallace visit, and I pl...
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    "I have a clever plan....." - Thanks for all the feedback & requests. Its been a ...few...years since I read up on any accounts of Gettysburg apart from various memoirs (*from both ...
    4 days ago
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    Police + - Some more of the 3D printed figures, some are the Mexican Federal again while others are USA Law Enforcement…and a few ‘bad guys’ at the end. As before, pa...
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    Basing before packing... - ... Then moving! Within two months, I will be away. Not very far, less than 5 km from here, but we have a lot of stuff to move, including several thousa...
    2 months ago
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    3 months ago
  • Rod's Wargaming
    New Model Army Completed - As described in a recent post. i have decided to create a wargame setup for The New Nodel Army and the Scottish Army,, based on the Orbats for the Battle o...
    3 months ago
  • Torgau Project
    Blenheim, Order of Battle, Part V, l’Armée du Rhin - The final part of the Order of Battle is the Marshall Tallard “Army of the Rhine”. This army, formed in early 1704 to support Marsin and Max Emmanuel in...
    3 months ago
  • Waterloo 1/32
    The Brilliance of Waterloo (1970) - ''In this deep dive, I explore the brilliance of Sergei Bondarchuk’s Waterloo — from its epic scale and historical accuracy to the powerhouse performanc...
    3 months ago
  • late roman figurines 1/72
    Le siège de Rome 537 - La production de figurines, malgré les progrès immenses de l’impression 3D, est étrangement en déclin. Cela s’explique évidemment aussi par la guerre en Uk...
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  • Service Ration Distribution (Hobby)
    1944: Putot Canadian Counter Attack. - Canada played a massive roll in the 2nd World War and it has been under-played and underappreciated because Hollywood gives the impression that it was a ...
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  • General Reeve
    Broadside Games Show 2025 - Today I went to my second wargame show of the year, with another trip down the A2 to Gillingham, Kent for the *Broadside Games Show* run by the Milton Hu...
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  • HintonHull
    Re-basing , the curse of the hobby. - After a few test games I've decided that individually based artillery crew figures just to make it easier to record damage is a bit of a pain, so I'm re...
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  • My Metal Meneken
    THE BATTLE OF OF STALLUPONEN AND GUMBINNEN - 17TH- 20TH OF AUGUST 1914 - Again WW1 but this time 6mm! and the home made rules "Bloodbath" I call them (working title). And the opening fights leading to the Russian disaster at T...
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  • Stan's Armée 1/32 54mm Napoleonic plastic soldiers
    Stansarmee is back! And never left... Let's catch up! Hat 1/32 American Civil War prototypes Marching set 1 and 2 painted in the summer of 2024 - ACW marching set 1 and 2 prototypes A small and fun commission for HaT Industries that I received mid-June last year. After a long hiatus, I am ba...
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  • David's Wargame Retreat
    First Lagash Regiments. - Well thought I'd see how well my phone works for miniature picks as my camera looks like it has past on. Off to buy a new one 😒 This is the first Laga...
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    Zalamea la Real 15 April 1810 - Last week Brian North and I played out a new scenario by Brian, the Battle of Zalamaea. The following is extracted from Brian’s excellent background on...
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  • Umpapa's blog about games
    1:72 / 20 mm pulp interwar imagi-nation Sultanate of Hatay cavalry - HaT 8289 Colonial Bengal Lancers - Hello after a long break. Today I would like to show cavalry of Hatay Sultanate, the continuation of my old project shown here. Witam po dłuższej przerwie...
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  • Sceavus_all_1/72
    SAGA- Dark skirmishes in 28mm - Hi, let me show you again some non-1/72 work. I painted during last year some small bamds to play famous Game SAGA against Friends, which results an easy a...
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  • A Fist Full of Plastic
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    New Fantasy sets from Alliance - I know, I havent been active for..???..a long time but I keep looking at what´s going on in the world of bods..and today I found these.....Apparently the...
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  • plastic general
    Tallarn - Tallarn troops for the Imperium!! these are 3d scans of the original metal miniatures I got from a friendly guy on facebook. scaled down to 20mm scale.
    2 years ago
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    THE ZENGIDS Seljuk Cavalry Painted Strelets figures miniatures 1/72 25mm medieval arab nomadic crusades wargaming - At last I manage to finish some project, fully, succesfully and completely! I wanted to paint something, and hence I gave a look at my various boxes. Th...
    2 years ago
  • Avon Napoleonic Fellowship
    Book and Figure Review: Images of War: Fallschirmjäger: German Paratroopers - 1937–1941 & 1942–1945, by François Cochet and Airfix 1/32 German Paratroops - In two volumes François Cochet outlines the history of the German fallschirmjäger in the Second World War, deftly combining brief chapters of text with a m...
    5 years ago
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  • The Lone S Ranger
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    Camel Corps continued... - Back to my hobby...apologies for not posting sooner...job...work and all that stuff...plus breaking my wrist in 8 places...nice! So to kick off a new era....
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  • Towards a 54mm Waterloo Wargame
    How Poles aren't always Accurate - Following numerous requests, well one actually, to describe the process of producing the Polish Winged Hussars, here is the first of two posts that run thr...
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    6 years ago
  • military modeling in scale 1/72
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  • Zed's Napoleonics
    Year's end - Well. That was it. Swoosh - 2018 is almost dead and gone. Freaking quick, the year passed by. Unfortunately, this year became so much filled with business,...
    6 years ago
  • Michael's 1/72 Figuren
    Nordstaaten Geschütz 1/72 - Ich wünsche euch allen ein frohes Weihnachtsfest. Anbei Fotos von den letzten Figuren, die ich über die Feiertage bemalt habe. Die Kanone und die Figuren st...
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  • The Hinton Hunter
    The figures are nice but not the most interesting thing... - These were a reasonably recent eBay purchase. Good original figures nicely painted in a style which matches well with mine. Though I must have at least ...
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  • collect and paint figures 1:72
    Hät 8115 -Polish Infantry - W W 2 -
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  • A Wash Of Bourbon
    Some of the goals for 2018 - Hi everybody, This post is a kind of official stance, to impose myself some goals for 2018. The following are the projects that I would like to finish thi...
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  • PLASTIC WARRIORS
    WIP: German Calvary - While things have been quiet on the posting front, things have actually been limping along in the background. Most of my efforts have been going on label...
    8 years ago
  • Gowan's 1/72scale projects and crazy ideas
    Plans and dreams 2017 - Now you may be wondering why I posted a picture of the sky. Well it's because many of the projects I am going to talk about are up in the air right now w...
    8 years ago
  • Romani in Tenebris
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    10 years ago
  • The Plastic Pelisse
    Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm" - Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm metal ma...
    11 years ago
  • 1/72 Ancient Wargames
    The Ancient Greeks - After a long while plaing with bronze age, we had a game with Greeks defending their homeland: The zvezda figures are great But see those old Atlantic wi...
    11 years ago
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    Bavarian Chevaulegers - Hi all I was going to upload a photo of the Piano Wargames Bavarian Chevaulegers that I have spent hours on and nearly finished this morning BUT... WHA...
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  • Grenadiers a Cheval
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    3 months ago
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    4 months ago
  • HintonHull
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    7 months ago
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  • Un Marius sinon rien !
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    2 years ago
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    2 years ago
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    2 years ago
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    3 years ago
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    3 years ago
  • wargamerabbit
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    4 years ago
  • Napocalypse Now
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    4 years ago
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    5 years ago
  • Avon Napoleonic Fellowship
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    5 years ago
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    5 years ago
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    5 years ago
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    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
  • Ponatowski's Legions
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    6 years ago
  • French Revolutionary Wargames 1789-1802
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    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
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    7 years ago
  • The Hinton Hunter
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    7 years ago
  • Project Leipzig (1813)
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    7 years ago
  • Wargaming Waterloo 2015
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    8 years ago
  • Napoleonic Warfare
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    8 years ago
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    9 years ago
  • Napoleonic Adventures
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    9 years ago
  • Napoleonic Wargaming Blog
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    9 years ago
  • Campaign of Nations
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    9 years ago
  • NAPOLEONIC-SPAIN-MINIATURES
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    9 years ago
  • NapoleonsHQ
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    9 years ago
  • Vive L'Empereur!
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    10 years ago
  • So much to wargame...so little time (or money)
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    10 years ago
  • War of 1812 Wargaming Blog
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    10 years ago
  • Borodino 1812-2012 (and more...)
    Dal campo (vero) di battaglia di Waterloo, edizione bicentenario -
    10 years ago
  • Großbeeren 1813
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    10 years ago
  • Napoleonic Military Modelling
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    11 years ago
  • NAPOLEONIC WARGAMING
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    12 years ago
  • La Belle Alliance
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    12 years ago
  • 10mm Napoleonics
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    12 years ago
  • Napoleon in Russia
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    12 years ago
  • Sole Member of the Napoleonic Connoisseur's Club
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    13 years ago
  • Les Grognards "Napoleonic Military History"
    Cold Wars 2012, 3rd Battle AAR! - *Magnano, Verona District, Italy 5 June 1799* *The Battle Map* *FRENCH FORCES* *Division Claude-Victor* * [101] General de Division Claude-Victor - Ac...
    13 years ago
  • Wargames Napoleonicos Napoleonic Wargames
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    15 years ago
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