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
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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...
    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...
  • 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
    No fury but a game played in the true wargaming spirit of friendly competition with plenty of banter, beer, camaraderie and fun. As well as ...

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Solo Wargaming

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  • Solo Battles
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1/72 (20 mm,; 1/32 blogs and more

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    4 hours ago
  • Torgau Project
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  • Bydand
    Another Russian Tank! - This is the second of three T34/76 Warlord plastic kits currently in production on the painting desk. The third is nearing completion, to be followed by ...
    14 hours ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Once more into the breach...or at least over the walls - A degree of confusion this week. It was supposed to be my last play test of the "Gough in China" game ahead of COW, but Chris had another engagement, as ...
    15 hours ago
  • Projects and Procrastination
    A Mapless Mini Campaign - Battle 1 - I started a three battle mini-campaign over the weekend, squeezing in a couple of games between work and domestic distractions. I was inspired to use ...
    17 hours ago
  • Man of Tin blog
    Britain’s 1962 Box Back version of Wells’ Little Wars - Browsing through James Opie’s Great Book of Britain’s 1893-1993, I found this interesting variation on Wells’ Little Wars printed on the back of some Brita...
    1 day ago
  • Tiny Tin Men
    I painted something!!! - It must have been perhaps 2 years since I painted something wargaming related. Too long to explain why this came about, but as usual, it's real life inte...
    1 day ago
  • Rod's Wargaming
    Royal Engineer Minefield Breaching Model - And now for something completely different. When I moved into my new apartment I put up various pictures and ornaments. Included in this was a shelf displa...
    1 day ago
  • Bunker Talk
    Batman Vehicles - Batmobile from the TV series Batman. They only used one vehicle in the TV show but it was modified a few times. At the first it was painted flat black....
    1 day ago
  • The Games We Play
    Two player Dominion of the Spear - John A was interested in the possibilites presented by Dominion of the Spear after helping playtest 'Alexander the Brief'. We'd already discussed some o...
    1 day ago
  • ALY'S TOY SOLDIERS
    And Another New Book… - Napoleon’s Hussars & Chsseurs… By Paul L Dawson… This is another excellent book from Frontline Books… https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Napoleons-Hus...
    2 days ago
  • Wargame Hermit: Solo Wargaming
    Combining Wargames - I am a big fan of Mike Lambo's solitaire wargame books. They are completes games with rules, maps, and even counters. All you need is a couple of...
    3 days ago
  • Asienieboje - wargaming blog
    Black Powder: Radzymin 1809. - Today, I’m sharing a report on the game we played last Thursday. Michael and I both have collections from the Napoleonic Wars: Michael has the Austrian f...
    3 days ago
  • Waterloo 1/32
    Battle of Waterloo 2025 Full Reenactment Cinematic | Historic 1815 Clash - Films like this make me miss Napoleonic reenactment.
    4 days ago
  • The Hinton Spieler.
    War breaks out in Wellington. - During *Call to Arms 2024* last year, K walked up to our little vintage game to tell us that he'd been a wargamer for years, and that he even had some 20...
    4 days ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    Progress against plan - 2Q25 - Progress is beginning to pickup with 841 items completed, normally I would have completed over 1200, but there have been various distractions. Hopefully I ...
    5 days ago
  • Noigrim's Hobby
    Operation Sonnenblume - Starting a western desert mini campaign with my dad pitting the 8th army versus the Afrika Korps in a set of desert battles fought in the middle of a h...
    6 days ago
  • Military Historical Miniatures
    Minotaurs - Minotaurs ALL72047 Minotaurs Dark Alliance
    6 days ago
  • Wackershofen Anno Domini
    Inventar eines Hauptmanns einer Stadtkompanie 1774 - Inventory of a captain of the city's company in 1774 - Während wir oft über Vorgänge im Kreiskontingent informiert werden[1], erfährt man meistens wenig über die Stadtkompanien. 1775 hingegen ist der Lieutena...
    1 week ago
  • Warfare in the Age of Cynics and Amateurs
    Paints 'n' Cards - I have mentioned the virtues of contrast paints in the past, but noted yesterday that I was able to paint 5 figures in about 15 minutes... The central co...
    1 week ago
  • Megablitz and more
    More KuK aircraft - Back in 1917, things just keep getting better for the lucky chaps of my kuk forces. These are diecast models with some plastic parts. I’ve tarted them up...
    1 week ago
  • Serpentine War Game Club
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    1 week ago
  • 54mm or Fight!
    June in Review - I can't believe June is already over. That means the year is half over too. I'll have a post about that, since goals and planning are as much a part of t...
    1 week ago
  • Archduke Piccolo
    Little Great War - The Naval Action concludes... - So far into the action, both fleets had taken serious damage. On the Azurian side, *Amiral Duperre *had been sunk, along with a torpedo boat. Though a...
    1 week ago
  • Pound Store Plastic Warriors
    More Pound Store Plastics – Combat Mission 160 pieces Matchbox 40mm copies - On occasional visits to the curious Trago Mills depertment store of Falmouth in Cornwall, I stock up on Revell Aquacolor Acrylics. My only other source of ...
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  • Nations In Arms
    AWI Battle. Playtesting The Rules - Regular wargaming partner Chris Charlton came over recently for another game of AWI. Our group has played this quite a few times over the last 12 mont...
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    Modellbautage Stammheim - Yesterday and today is the modelling fair in the Military museum in Stammheim, a few kilometers from Würzburg. It was my first visit to this museum an...
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  • Collecting Toy Soldiers
    New Replicants English Civil War figures at the Plastic Warrior Show 2025 - Each year, Peter Cole of Replicants uses the Plastic Warrior Show to launch his latest range of figures, this year he had eight new mounted English Civi...
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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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Napoleonics20/20
    Napoleonic ambulance caisson, wagon and field forge. 1/72. Franznap and Art Miniaturen. -
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  • Military Macro
    Derelict, Mysterious Buildings and Locations….4 - Here is rthe final, Part 4 series of photos fromt he recent session quite pleased with the overall results and in my opinion was well worth re-visiting the...
    3 weeks ago
  • 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...
    3 weeks ago
  • A Wargaming Gallimaufry
    My 1st army... - A post on the Ancient & Medieval Facebook page the other day sparked off a memory of my 1st wargames army (a bit of a Proustian madeleine moment). I bou...
    3 weeks ago
  • PMCD Mobilisatie battle reports
    Robbery in Tombstone in 54mm - 08/06/2024 - We played a gunfight game in 54mm. In the past, we had played several times with teams of lawmen, paired with a bandit team they had to stop. To do som...
    3 weeks 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...
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  • 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. ...
    2 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...
    3 months ago
  • Club LE SHAKKO
    Opération "Goodwood", Normandie 1944 - L'offensive British se poursuit. Certaines unités continuent leur (lente) progression, mais d'autres sont bloquées à hauteur d'un passage à niveau, celu...
    3 months ago
  • Waterloo to Mons
    5th Italian Line Infantry Regiment - It has been a while since I posted anything as frustratingly I started feeling unwell back in November last year. After months of feeling awful we discov...
    3 months ago
  • 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...
    3 months 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...
    3 months ago
  • 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...
    4 months ago
  • 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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  • Philotep's 1/72 Orcs Kingdom
    The Green Horde: Skullz standard bearer, and other reinforcements - Some news, at last! Not that I stopped painting, but it has become increasingly difficult to take decent pictures: no time, no place, no good light... I...
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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...
    1 year 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.
    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...
    5 years ago
  • 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...
    5 years ago
  • Heroes of the 54mm Empire
    Skirmish Campaign: Mountain Recon - At last! The 91st Recon Squadron is sent back in to action, this time in mainland Italy. The main mission is to locate Allied forces in the Ponte della ...
    5 years ago
  • Vintage Wargaming
    Warplan 5/5 Campaign System - I'm afraid I couldn't find a way to reproduce the snazzy double headed arrow in 5/5 in the text so will have to do with this instead. Warplan 5/5 came o...
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    Fog of War - Am currently researching the battle of Neerwinden for a talk I am giving on General Mack and am struck once again by how little 18/19th century armies seem...
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  • The Old Metal Detector
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    The A6M Zero in 1/72: Akagi’s Zeros Prepare for Pearl Harbor – Finished Diorama - At long last, below are photos of the finished diorama depicting the Zeros of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Akagi aircraft carrier preparing to take off as ...
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    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...
    5 years ago
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  • 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
  • military modeling in scale 1/72
    20 years - and a big leap (Evolution of British uniforms) - by Michael Schwab The period between 1792 and 1812 saw Britain nearly constantly at war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Nevertheless Top Brass i...
    6 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,...
    6 years ago
  • Michael's 1/72 Figuren
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    6 years ago
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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
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    10 years ago
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    11 years ago
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    El Castillo de Montgat en los años 1808-14 - Tiempo de lectura: 20 minutos Al estudiar el período que abarca de 1808 a 1814 nos encontramos con varios ejemplos de enclaves defensivos históricos que fu...
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    4 days ago
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    3 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago
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    1 month ago
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    2 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    7 months ago
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    11 months ago
  • With Pyjamas through a whiff of grapeshot!
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    1 year ago
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    2 years ago
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    2 years ago
  • Painting Lead and other stuff.
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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
  • The Lair of the Green Tiger
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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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    5 years ago
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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
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    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
  • Small Soldiers at Arms
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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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    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!
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    9 years ago
  • So much to wargame...so little time (or money)
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    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
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    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
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    12 years ago
  • Sole Member of the Napoleonic Connoisseur's Club
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    12 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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