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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Historic wargames

Games based on historical battles and actions that are reported on this blog

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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
    90 Built - I know that the masses of people who follow this blog have been checking every day to see how the ship building is going, only to find nothing posted since...
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  • Wargaming Waterloo 2015
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    8 years ago

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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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Solo Wargaming

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    Lippish P.13 A PM Model 1/72 built and painted model kit - This is an unusual little kit, one I saw discounted and couldn't resist buying it even if my stash is sky high (and keeps on growing!). A coal powered j...
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    2 days ago
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    Caladius grav tank - I really liked the new custodes and I took the chance to get one of their grav tanks, an elegant and sleek warmachine that will provide long ranged firep...
    3 days ago
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  • Projects and Procrastination
    Collaborative Campaign Year 16: Part 4 - After a long delay, today's post is set in Zigura and features a character we met at the beginning of the Campaign; Prince Toshibbaz, brother of Xeroz, ...
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  • 54mm or Fight!
    Red Lizards Rising - These four Reaper Dark Heaven lizards took WAY too long to complete - but they are done. They will bring up two of the existing Red Lizard units to full ...
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  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Being Set Up - The Ronssoy 1918 game is the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society's display game for this year, so you'll be seeing it at Campaign and Partizan. This re...
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  • ALY'S TOY SOLDIERS
    Shiny Napoleonics… W.I.P. - Greetings… As promised here is a W.I.P. Photo of my next Shiny Napoleonic unit… They are (going to be) the Hanoverian Light Battalion Luneburg. I was ra...
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  • Prometheus in Aspic
    Hooptedoodle #496 - Got to Get Ourselves back to the Garden - It's a year since we planted our brave new shrubbery on the site of the legendary Roland's Hedge (which was wrecked in a storm so long ago that I now ca...
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    DarkAlliance... Modern Krampus, Witches and more on Ebay - HÄT / DarkAlliance on Ebay
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  • General Reeve
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    2 weeks ago
  • Nations In Arms
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    Hex Acrylic Templates - I am a big fan of Archduke Piccolo's Napoleonic campaigns, and have been thinking of trying to use his rules for a game. While leaning towards using 2...
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    This year in Belgium -
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  • Waterloo to Mons
    Unexpected Items in the Basing Area - Following my previous post I was contacted by "Dopplebockdunkel" who very graciously gifted me a sizeable number of Jacklex ACW figures. Most are unpai...
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  • Service Ration Distribution (Hobby)
    1809: Karako, 11th June. Hungary - Here we are again gentle reader. The seemingly unstoppable Eugene and his duelling banjos are intent on snuffing out the Austrian rearguard.... As soon...
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    Campagne navale Mer du Nord, 1914 - Raid sur Héligoland, 28 août 1914 - Précédemment... Après l’incident du* Königin Luise*, les deux flottes retournent à leur routine de patrouilles et de guerre de mines. Le théâtre de la M...
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  • Un Soixante-Douze
    La bataille de Cowpens 17 janvier 1781 au 1/72 -
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    Scots Army for Dunbar 1650 Completed - I haven’t posted anything on this website for 6 months, but I have been busy with my other activity of creating Military History talks. During the last six...
    2 months ago
  • waterloo-miniatures
    Cuirassiers prussiens 1870-71 - Pour contrer nos cuirassiers français, j'ai également réalisé 2 unités de cuirassiers prussiens. Figurines 18mm Paperboys. Bonne visite. 😉 Cuirassiers pru...
    3 months ago
  • Tiny Wars Played Indoors
    Pushing forward - a Big CoC2 Chain of Command Battle Report - For Christmas I picked up a copy of Big CoC2, the supplement that guides you through creating larger battles in CoC2. This is a case of trying to run be...
    3 months ago
  • David's Wargame Retreat
    Ambush on the road to Pun Scenario - Setting My second scenario aimed at the early bronze era. 1st Force is moving supplies to a store house in the town of Pun. 2nd Force is lying in amb...
    4 months ago
  • Tiny Tin Men
    Wet Paint: various items - It's been a while since I've done a wet paint post, probably because it's been a while since I actually painted some stuff. The last few weeks have been pr...
    5 months ago
  • The Hinton Spieler.
    Dredder than Lead - I just had to give this a go. I might be regretting it now. The Prussian examples are truly terrifing: And one more. The AI struggled with this one...
    6 months ago
  • Serpentine War Game Club
    Weissenfels 1813 - Weissenfels was a minor battle fought the day before the battle at Lutzen. This was a delaying action by the Russians and presented both sides with some ...
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  • Napoleonics20/20
    Bashkir Cossacks. Art Miniaturen 1/72. - These took a little longer to complete than anticipated, mainly because each figure in reality had to be painted with individual colours and markings. They...
    7 months ago
  • Philotep's 1/72 Orcs Kingdom
    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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...
    1 year ago
  • 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...
    1 year ago
  • A Fist Full of Plastic
    A Tale of Two Tracks - The Heller AMX-30/105 Kit - Several years ago I purchased three 1/72 scale Heller AMX-30/105 kits. At the time I was unaware of any issues with the kit and they joined the mountain of...
    2 years ago
  • Paul´s Bods
    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...
    2 years ago
  • 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.
    3 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...
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  • MOP - MAD ON PLAYMOBIL
    PLAYMOBIL DIORAMA ODYSSEY (XI) ITHACA - [image: PLAYMOBIL DIORAMA ODYSSEY ITHACA ANCIENT GREEK CUSTOM FIGURES] Our last post on the Odyssey subject is centered on the return to Ithaca of Ulysses...
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  • The Lone S Ranger
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  • Heroes of the 54mm Empire
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  • Vintage Wargaming
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  • Towards a 54mm Waterloo Wargame
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  • 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,...
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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
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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...
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  • Gowan's 1/72scale projects and crazy ideas
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    El asedio de Tarragona de 1811, por Francesc Murillo (y II) - Tiempo de lectura: 30 minutos En esta segunda parte que dedicamos al estudio de Francesc Murillo Galimany sobre el asedio de Tarragona de 1811, el foco se ...
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    8 years ago
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    Généraux français Perry Miniatures - Bonjour à tous voici de nouvelles figurines Perry Miniatures dans la série première empire à bientôt Christian.
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  • Grenadiers a Cheval
    Tenue des Sapeurs - Dress of Imperial Guard *Sapeurs*, 1813-1815 For his famous series of plates of the French Army of the Napoleonic period, Martinet of Paris produced many o...
    10 years ago
  • Les Uniformes pendant la campagne des Cent Jours - Belgique 1815
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  • Blunders on the Danube
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    14 hours ago
  • napoleonic wargaming
    Cordoba Campaign – Day Six - *14 September 1813 – Southern Spain – Day 6* French attack Cordoba 13 French Army regroup at Muriano 14 French Army attack Cordoba 15 French Army retreat...
    1 day ago
  • One Sided Miniature Wargaming Discourse
    Torpedoes and Tides - Making a Beginning Again - Having identified mistakes made in the first game and also deciding to try a different scale (1/600th this time) we were ready to set sail again. Mark B...
    2 days ago
  • Storm and Conquest!
    Nobles of the of Plantagenet Civil Wars Western France - Henri II to John 1188-1217. Part 1 - The Barons wars in France, 1173-1215I am researching a list of local nobles suitable for the Barons Wars skirmish rules for the period from 1173-1217 for...
    2 days ago
  • JJ's Wargames
    The World Turned Upside Down - 15th Virginia Continental Regiment. - The 15th Virginia Regiment was authorized on the September 16th, 1776, as a part of the Virginia Line, of which Virginia raised fifteen Continental Regi...
    2 days ago
  • Grymauch's Solo Wargaming Blog
    AWI: White Plains/Chatterton's Hill, 28th October 1776 - The Game - *Turn 1* McDougall was the only American commander to successfully activate his troops enabling him to move the entire brigade onto Chatterton's Hill. R...
    3 days ago
  • The Lair of the Green Tiger
    KURSK !! - For some time I have been daydreaming about staging a large wargame. I umpired a 1/32nd Waterloo game down in deepest Devon a few years back and I fanci...
    3 days ago
  • The Dining Table Napoleon
    Hobby update – April 2026 - Another quiet month on the hobby front. At least I got a game in. Meanwhile, somewhat better weather meant that I needed to rectify months of neglect in th...
    4 days ago
  • Blue Max Miniatures
    High Elf Battle Standard Bearer - High Elf Battle Standard Bearer See My Classic High elf Army project by clicking here!
    6 days ago
  • Horse and Musket Gaming
    A return to the Po Campaign - It's been nearly 3 weeks since I last dealt with the rival dynasties fighting in northern Italy. That was partly down to an outbreak of "Real Life" - a f...
    6 days ago
  • Tom's Toy Soldiers
    Warmaster Event at Black Dragon Miniatures - On Saturday I took myself off to Hinckley to play Warmaster for the day. I'd spotted this event when it was first advertised back in January, but then ev...
    6 days ago
  • Waterloo in 20mm
    Smohain in the Sunshine - Taking advantage of the spring weather, I decided to take the Smohain part of the model outside for some sunshine. I was able to make various improveme...
    1 week ago
  • Jemima Fawr's Miniature Wargames Blog
    The Danube Finale: The Battle of Znaïm (Day 1), 10th July 1809 - This month I finally got around to reading John H Gill’s superb book The Battle of Znaïm: Napoleon, The Habsburgs and the End of the War of 1809 and though...
    1 week ago
  • Situation Room
    Game 140 : Leipzig 1813 Southern Front - Its been a while since I've done the blog, I blame growing older, but laziness might also have a bearing! A new hip, a crown disintegrating and so a new...
    1 week ago
  • Elite Miniatures Australia
    German 8.8 cm Flak & Crew - Just thought I would show off one of our club members’ latest completed projects… the classic and much-feared German 8.8 cm Flak gun and crew from the ex...
    1 week ago
  • My 1/32 Wagram
    Napoleonic wargaming media - A couple videos on period war gaming I came across; First, a Waterloo done with figures; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55RdmZH80Z0 And one on Wagram d...
    2 weeks ago
  • Hinton Hunt Vintage Wargame Figures
    Russian Horse Guard - or is it? - Well, no this is actually a Prussian Garde du Corps trooper with a small modification and paint job conversion. The modification is that I have removed t...
    2 weeks ago
  • Wargamingnz
    Back to the Peninsula - The Volley and Bayonet rules have a great scenario generation system included. For me it works well, but it doesn't always suit the needs of every 'gamer...
    2 weeks ago
  • Waterloo 1/32
    This year in Belgium -
    2 weeks ago
  • Warfare in the Age of Cynics and Amateurs
    Stones River 1862, with Volley & Bayonet - Having some time over Easter to set up a large game, one of the ACW battles from the old V&B '90s scenario book seemed appropriate. Stones River is of an...
    2 weeks ago
  • Austria and Russia - Napoleonic wars. Wargame 28mm,
    Nizam-i-cedid infantry, Perry miniatures 28mm. - Начинаю новый, очень большой проект на заказ - Османская империя на наполеоновский период. Знамён пока не.
    3 weeks ago
  • PMCD Mobilisatie battle reports
    ECW battle in 54mm playes on 15/03/2026 - We played a ficitve EVW battle, where a Royal force had taken position behind some hedgerows. A classical deployment with the foot in the center, and ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Service Ration Distribution (Hobby)
    1809: Karako, 11th June. Hungary - Here we are again gentle reader. The seemingly unstoppable Eugene and his duelling banjos are intent on snuffing out the Austrian rearguard.... As soon...
    1 month ago
  • Club LE SHAKKO
    Campagne navale Mer du Nord, 1914 - Raid sur Héligoland, 28 août 1914 - Précédemment... Après l’incident du* Königin Luise*, les deux flottes retournent à leur routine de patrouilles et de guerre de mines. Le théâtre de la M...
    1 month ago
  • Association - Les Riflemen
    955 Lechfeld - *Le camp Magyar est installé en Bavière, objectif l'arrière garde carolingienne.* *The Magyar camp is set up in Bavaria, with the objective of targeting...
    1 month ago
  • War of 1812 Wargaming Blog
    - * Military Strength in North America in the War of 1812* *American Military at the Onset of the War; * Regulars 7000 to 10,000 men 1. 17 Regiments o...
    2 months ago
  • Un Soixante-Douze
    La bataille de Cowpens 17 janvier 1781 au 1/72 -
    2 months ago
  • waterloo-miniatures
    Cuirassiers prussiens 1870-71 - Pour contrer nos cuirassiers français, j'ai également réalisé 2 unités de cuirassiers prussiens. Figurines 18mm Paperboys. Bonne visite. 😉 Cuirassiers pru...
    3 months ago
  • Chasseur
    Russian Jager - Perry 28mm - Six units of Jager from Perry. These are the plastic Russian infantry kit, but I converted the standard bearer models using spare Austrian infantry arms ...
    3 months ago
  • Wee Painted Men - Wargaming with Miniatures
    More progress with the ancient indian army - Painting has been a bit slower for me this month, but I’m still managing to move forward with the ancients project, and in particular the indian army wit...
    4 months ago
  • von Peter himself
    Snippets #35 - Another drive-by post delivered before the brain of von Peter himself drops the memories. Idle times in front of a screen First up a recent review of Gener...
    6 months ago
  • The Hinton Spieler.
    Dredder than Lead - I just had to give this a go. I might be regretting it now. The Prussian examples are truly terrifing: And one more. The AI struggled with this one...
    6 months ago
  • Obscure Battles
    Leuthen 1757 - Seven Years War December 5, 1757, a Monday Prussians under Frederick II, approximately 28,600 and 165 guns Austro-Imperial Forces under Prince Charles of ...
    6 months ago
  • L'Atelier des Portes d'argent
    Guerre de 100 ans Corvus Belli + Essex - En vente ici : http://www.figbazar.fr/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24130
    7 months ago
  • Chronicles of Dahara
    Disaster Strikes a Russian Armored Column - Disaster Strikes a Russian Armored Column While motoring from factories in the Attic Military District to various staging points to be painted in Rus...
    7 months ago
  • Napoleonics20/20
    Bashkir Cossacks. Art Miniaturen 1/72. - These took a little longer to complete than anticipated, mainly because each figure in reality had to be painted with individual colours and markings. They...
    7 months ago
  • 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...
    1 year ago
  • Ilkley Old School
    DBSYW - Fontenoy - I played another game of DBSYW. The set up was based on the Battle of Fontenoy and I used my Prussians to represent the British and Allies and the Austr...
    1 year ago
  • 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...
    1 year ago
  • Un Marius sinon rien !
    GDA2 : Bataille de Liebertwolkswitz, 16 Octobre 1813 - Bataille de Liebertwolkswitz 16 Octobre 1813 Un village trop loin… ou la chronique d’une défaite annoncée ! 16 Octobre 1813, sur le front Sud de la* batai...
    1 year ago
  • With Pyjamas through a whiff of grapeshot!
    Battle of Jena 1806 - A view across the battlefield showing the state of play at the end of turn six We are currently in the midst of fighting a wonderful 1806 scenario genero...
    1 year ago
  • Dots of Paint
    Old Collection, 'new rules' (ACW 15mm) - Years ago we lived in a apartment condo during an occurrence of many fires damaging suites, I told The Wife that should we encounter such an emergency to...
    2 years ago
  • Jabba's Wargaming
    Diceni Gaming Show 2023, Norwich. - Sunday 30th of April saw the 10th Diceni Gaming Show in Norwich UK This show is organised by the Aftermath Gaming Club in Norwich, held in the atrium of...
    2 years ago
  • Painting Lead and other stuff.
    Snitgob the Mountain Troll - Hi everyone, I've managed to complete this Mountain Troll, part of my Goblin Army for the 'Dragon Rampant' fantasy rules. Acquired from Ral Partha miniat...
    3 years ago
  • Little Wars Revisited
    Blog Closing… - This blog will be closing down on 1st July. I have a fairly expensive hosting package that I no longer need as I am only running Black Hat and selling pain...
    3 years ago
  • Le Blog du Marquis
    La Flotte, c'est plus salé que le thé...Victory at sea. - Mein Got! l'efficacité et la hardiesse teutonne ont bien failli coûter cher à la grande flotte du Reich! Partie scénarisée avec tirage de cartes par madame...
    4 years ago
  • wargamerabbit
    COE Battle of Dara 530 AD. - Opening scenario game for Year 2021 at the warren. First Saturday of January, the warren game room staged the Clash of Empires (COE) 28mm historical Battle...
    5 years ago
  • Napocalypse Now
    Les Grandes Batailles du FESSE n°1. 1859. Voir Solférino et Mourir - Daniel Costelle avait sorti la série des Grandes Batailles de l'Histoire, à voir facilement sur youtube. Cela a vieilli mais reste tout de même très inté...
    5 years ago
  • Du napo dans l'air
    ALLEZ ! MOLLIT PAS, JJ ! - Quand y en a plus, y en a encore. Comme j'ai pu me réapprovisionner en plaques de polystyrène dans un magasin où je me suis rendu avec masque, hygiaphone et...
    5 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...
    6 years ago
  • The Peninsular War in 15mm
    Russian Napoleonic Pre 1809 Sapper Conversion - A short post about a conversion I put together recently. Finding sappers in 15mm scale for the more common armies isn't a problem. I was unable to find a ...
    6 years ago
  • Marauder Moments
    Seasons Greetings - *Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas * *& Happy New Year.* 2020 is a new decade in both life & wargaming. I might do a reflective piece on that as w...
    6 years ago
  • Volley & Bayonet
    Maria Theresa’s Legions - Over recent weeks I’ve been slowly working on my latest Volley & Bayonet project. Specifically my Seven Years War Austrians. The figures available were pur...
    6 years ago
  • Prussian Army 1808-1813. Wargame 28 mm.
    23 октября 2019 г. "Большая игра". - В воскресенье, не стесненные, как обычно, надвигающимся рабочим днем, решились на большую игру. Армия Великобритании супротив Австро-Русской армии. Мне в...
    6 years ago
  • Monsieur le Rosbif & Johnny Frog
    A Tale of Two Battles - Part the First - The Italian infantry brigade. The only unit to come out of this with their heads held high. This is the first of two battle reports featuring my French ...
    6 years ago
  • The British Army At Waterloo
    Brunswick Light Infantry 1st Battalion - Continuing the new non-British European slant, here is a company of Brunswickers from the 1st Light Battalion, presumably fighting somewhere in or around H...
    6 years ago
  • Ponatowski's Legions
    March Update - Good year so far... - We are already into March of 2019...another year just flying by it seems. I'm just doing an update on what I've been able to get done so far this year, an...
    7 years ago
  • French Revolutionary Wargames 1789-1802
    MY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (Christmas Project) - On Christmas Day I was inspired to start a suitably appropriate project, to build a Russian Orthodox Church. It was a year ago that I picked up a wooden co...
    7 years ago
  • 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,...
    7 years ago
  • Small Soldiers at Arms
    More British Light Dragoons - Yet another regiment of cavalry completed: a second unit of Light Dragoons by Italeri, to match up with the first one I painted several months back. I chos...
    7 years ago
  • Napoleonics in Miniature
    Visit to Waterloo - I was incredibly lucky to have had the chance to travel to 1 of our Napoleonic bucket list battlefields this month. With 3 other Napoleonic daft chaps we ...
    7 years ago
  • 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 ...
    7 years ago
  • Project Leipzig (1813)
    Probsthain for Lasalle. The Scenario - *O*ne of my best wishes for this year 2018 is to return to wargaming after almost two years of absence, in which work and family obligations have left me w...
    8 years ago
  • 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...
    8 years ago
  • Napoleonic Warfare
    France II - Been putting off taking snaps of this army too long. It's gonna be done in stages... so let's start with the Heavy Cavalry. Namely, Cuirassiers & Carabinie...
    8 years ago
  • Batalhas Napoleonicas
    - O Blog Batalhas Napoleónicas vai premiar os participantes na Modelstep Loures 2016 com os trabalhos modelísticos Napoleónicos com prémios dentro destes ...
    9 years ago
  • Napoleonic Adventures
    Front Rank Foot Yeomen - Another unit for my Lion Rampant force. I painted these up as the retinue of the Duke of Lorraine, and are probably more uniform than they would be in actu...
    9 years ago
  • Napoleonic Wargaming Blog
    Items for Sale on Ebay - Just a quick post to let you know I am selling some figures on eBay, which are surplus to requirements Please feel free to have a look here http://www.eba...
    9 years ago
  • Campaign of Nations
    Campaign Post Operations Report #21 - Tsar Alexander learns of the Prussian double-speak in Bohemia - The following message arrives for Tsar Alexander on 27 Aug 1813: "Grand Duke Constantine: to Tsar Alexander: My Brother, The Prussians have marched out f...
    9 years ago
  • NAPOLEONIC-SPAIN-MINIATURES
    DRAGONES DE NUMANCIA 1808 15mm / Lasalle based - Queridos seguidores, Os presento mi visión de los Dragones de Numancia en la Guerra de la Independencia . Aunque no participo en la batalla de Bar...
    9 years ago
  • NapoleonsHQ
    Battle Report on Cadzand 1809 - Date played: 6 February 2016 Rules: General de Brigade Deluxe Turns: @14 Turns Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm General course of the battle Mike and Jeff took comm...
    10 years ago
  • Vive L'Empereur!
    The French have landed! - Another classic Anglo-French Napoleonic bash was on the cards, with a random terrain setup by Jim (as he didn't know the army compositions). An entirely ac...
    10 years ago
  • So much to wargame...so little time (or money)
    Napoleon's Battles 4th Edition Review - *The 4th Edition of Napoleon's Battles had finally been released!* Why am I so excited? This is, in my personal opinion, THE rules set by which grand ta...
    10 years ago
  • Borodino 1812-2012 (and more...)
    Dal campo (vero) di battaglia di Waterloo, edizione bicentenario -
    10 years ago
  • Großbeeren 1813
    Back to blogging -
    11 years ago
  • Napoleonic Military Modelling
    Russian Imperial Army: Infantry -
    11 years ago
  • NAPOLEONIC WARGAMING
    Saxe-Coburg Voltigeurs, 4th regiment of the Rhine - The first two battalions for the 4th Rhinbund regiment included a voltigeur company comprising of men supplied by the duchies of Saxe- Coburg-Saalfeld. Thi...
    12 years ago
  • La Belle Alliance
    - A year of figure painting passes again. I have added another 4 french regiments and 6 Hanoverian Field and Landwehr units. Hougamont is still sitting unfin...
    12 years ago
  • 10mm Napoleonics
    Napoleon: a Kickstarter - Found this on Kickstarter the other day. While not in the block buster league of some of the projects (Reaper Bones for example), it seems a good value fo...
    13 years ago
  • Napoleon in Russia
    The Final Post - Well, maybe not the final post, but close to it. With the end of the 200th anniversary of the Russian campaign, I will no longer be making regular posts. ...
    13 years ago
  • Sole Member of the Napoleonic Connoisseur's Club
    Six player corps sized game - This Tuesday six of us gathered at our club for a "big game" of General de Brigade. We had set up a table 180cm deep and 480cm long (6x16'). I, Nisse and M...
    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...
    14 years ago
  • Wargames Napoleonicos Napoleonic Wargames
    Grupo de mando 95 rifes - Otra referencia de Perry miniatures, un grupo de mando para el archiconocido 95 de rifles, una unidad que siempre destaco en sus acciones, y que puede ser ...
    15 years ago
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