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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    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...
  • 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...
  • Salamanca in Albany: Empire and Fury
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  • The Games We Play
    WRG 1925-50 (neu) Part 5. Brecourt Manor, June 7th 1944 - Back in June I thought I'd try the Fireball Forward "Brecourt Manor" scenario with the WRG rules as a D Day anniversary game. I actually ran this scenar...
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    Tripods and Triplanes. - This time, we wanted to keep things lighthearted. Our guest from France and his children were scheduled to visit our club, but unfortunately, the long jo...
    2 days ago
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    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...
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    3 days ago
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  • Torgau Project
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  • Projects and Procrastination
    See the Pyramids - Rereading the *Dominion of Napoleon Bonaparte* rules this morning I realized that I'd misinterpreted the Artillery bombardment section (note to self: re...
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  • Noigrim's Hobby
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  • History in 1/72
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  • Prometheus in Aspic
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  • waterloo-miniatures
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    6 days ago
  • Man of Tin blog
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    6 days ago
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    6 days ago
  • Collecting Toy Soldiers
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    Recently I Have Been Mainly.... - ...gloss varnishing and rebasing. Cutting a long story short just before Christmas I decided to streamline the number of sets of rules I was using. As m...
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  • Club LE SHAKKO
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    Summer & work distractions - The summer season warmth and a trip to Hawaii, plus a ton of work lately have choked off my posting recently, but despite this I’ve been able to make pro...
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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...
    1 month ago
  • Small Scale World
    News, Views Etc . . . PW Feedback - So, 4am here, and I've run out of puff, sorting the plunder pile! Yeah, I had a snooze earlier! There were three new Plastic Warrior Special Publications l...
    1 month ago
  • Tom's Miniatures in 1/72
    A lot of new Linear-A Sets on 19.05.2025 in the Shop - *The countdown is on, many new linear-A sets will be released starting Monday. https://www.linear-a.de** (Picture from the Set 121 (*Jason and the Argonaut...
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  • Waterloo in 20mm
    Smohain/ La Marache - I have now completed Papelotte Farm, La Haye Farm and the chateau of Frischermont. It therefore remains to fill in the gap between these buildings. ...
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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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  • Tiny Wars Played Indoors
    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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  • Un Soixante-Douze
    Telnitz et Sokolnitz le 2 décembre 1805 au 1/72 -
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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
    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...
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  • 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...
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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
  • Toy Soldier Chest
    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
  • 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
    Ancient Romans - housekeeping - I've done some housekeeping on the blog, taking advantage of some photographs sent to me by Bob the Painter, to review the posts under Codes AR and ARC, an...
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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....
    5 years ago
  • 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...
    6 years ago
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    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
  • military modeling in scale 1/72
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    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
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    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
  • 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...
    7 years ago
  • 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
    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
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    11 years ago
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    3 days ago
  • Blunders on the Danube
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  • napoleonic wargaming
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    4 days ago
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  • waterloo-miniatures
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    5 days ago
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  • Napoleonics20/20
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  • Elite Miniatures Australia
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  • Club LE SHAKKO
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    2 weeks ago
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    3 weeks ago
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    3 weeks ago
  • The Hinton Spieler.
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    3 weeks ago
  • Storm and Conquest!
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    4 weeks ago
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  • Association - Les Riflemen
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    4 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago
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    5 weeks ago
  • Situation Room
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    1 month ago
  • L'Atelier des Portes d'argent
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    2 months ago
  • Waterloo in 20mm
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    2 months ago
  • HintonHull
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    3 months ago
  • Ilkley Old School
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    3 months ago
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    4 months ago
  • Un Marius sinon rien !
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    4 months ago
  • Un Soixante-Douze
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    8 months ago
  • Austria and Russia - Napoleonic wars. Wargame 28mm,
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    1 year ago
  • With Pyjamas through a whiff of grapeshot!
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    1 year ago
  • Dots of Paint
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    2 years ago
  • Jabba's Wargaming
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    2 years ago
  • Painting Lead and other stuff.
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    2 years ago
  • Little Wars Revisited
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    3 years ago
  • Le Blog du Marquis
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    3 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...
    4 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...
    4 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...
    5 years ago
  • The Lair of the Green Tiger
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    5 years ago
  • The Peninsular War in 15mm
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    5 years ago
  • Marauder Moments
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    5 years ago
  • Prussian Army 1808-1813. Wargame 28 mm.
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    5 years ago
  • Monsieur le Rosbif & Johnny Frog
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    6 years ago
  • The British Army At Waterloo
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    6 years ago
  • Ponatowski's Legions
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    6 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...
    6 years ago
  • Zed's Napoleonics
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    6 years ago
  • Small Soldiers at Arms
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    6 years ago
  • Napoleonics in Miniature
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    7 years ago
  • The Hinton Hunter
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    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...
    7 years ago
  • Wargaming Waterloo 2015
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    8 years ago
  • Napoleonic Warfare
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    8 years ago
  • Batalhas Napoleonicas
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    8 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!
    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...
    9 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...
    9 years ago
  • War of 1812 Wargaming Blog
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    9 years ago
  • Borodino 1812-2012 (and more...)
    Dal campo (vero) di battaglia di Waterloo, edizione bicentenario -
    10 years ago
  • Großbeeren 1813
    Back to blogging -
    10 years ago
  • Napoleonic Military Modelling
    Russian Imperial Army: Infantry -
    11 years ago
  • NAPOLEONIC WARGAMING
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    11 years ago
  • La Belle Alliance
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    12 years ago
  • 10mm Napoleonics
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    12 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. ...
    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
    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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