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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    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...
    7 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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    Hawker Demon - Sorry it's been a while since my last post - busy with work and other stuff, meaning lots of screen time and a resulting disinclination to write blog pos...
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  • Bunker Talk
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  • Waterloo to Mons
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    1 day ago
  • Nations In Arms
    Bigger is Better - Upgunned Napoleonic French Infantry - My initial idea was to go for Napoleonic infantry units of 24 figures in an attempt to speed up production and get things on the table. Up to a point thi...
    1 day ago
  • Noigrim's Hobby
    The island of sacrifices - After some years without playing Mordheim we've retaken the setting with a jungle encounter between amazons and lizardmen Amongst a thick fog that hid th...
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    15mm British passengers. Finally! - Regular readers may recall me bemoaning the lack of seated 15mm British infantry figures. Drivers and tank crew, no problem, but infantry? You are out of...
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  • waterloo-miniatures
    L'armée espagnole 21. Les dragons Almansa 1806-08 - Aujourd'hui, je vais vous présenter la première unité de cavalerie espagnole. Nous commencerons avec un régiment de dragons de Almansa. La cavalerie espagn...
    2 days ago
  • Prometheus in Aspic
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    2 days ago
  • Bydand
    Big Sunday Game .....and its the Eastern Front AGAIN! - No surprise for my regular readers of course - as we replayed the scenario from Andrew's place on Friday but on a much larger table and with more troops...
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  • Waterloo in 20mm
    Continued progress at Frischermont - I've been working quite hard to establish possibly the least well known farm complex at Waterloo, the farm of Frischermont. The building is off the Sibor...
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  • Small Scale World
    KTL is for Kandy Toys Limited - 2023 Spring Fair - I can on occasion get a bit confused between Keycraft, Kinder and Kandytoys, not less than when glancing at marks at a show, but they are all slightly diff...
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  • Waterloo 1/32
    An Unknown Account Of the Aftermath of The Battle Of Waterloo -
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  • History in 1/72
    Here the next 3D-Masters of our SYW/AWI project - When Patrick printed the charging Hessian Musketeers for me, I painted one as Freikorps Wunsch for my Korbitz project and sent him this very bad photo th...
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  • My Metal Meneken
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    4 days ago
  • Projects and Procrastination
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  • I LIKE the things I LIKE!
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    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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  • General Reeve
    Horses finished at last - Here is my last patch of the Scots Greys horses which bringing the total to 23. It’s been quite a challenged to pick up the brush again since late Oct...
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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...
    5 weeks ago
  • The Hinton Spieler.
    All Buttoned Up - The 2nd Light Infantry Battalion, King's German Legion, are ready to make their debut. They've been finished for a week now, in fact, but I was too busy ...
    1 month ago
  • Tiny Tin Men
    Some more decorations for the wargaming room - Last weekend, there was a militaria fair at Fort Liezele, the best preserved fortress of the forts around Antwerp. I am a volunteer of te organization th...
    2 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...
    2 months ago
  • Rod's Wargaming
    Batavian Auxiliary Infantry Cohorts - During the Early Imperial Roman Era. each Roman Legion was accompanied by a number of Cohorts of Auxiliary Infantry. In the case of the XIV Legion these we...
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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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  • Napoleonics20/20
    - *BORODINO. 3rd and 4th June 2023. * *Apologies.....taken a while to post this!* With over 20 players wanting to join the action this was going to be...
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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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  • HintonHull
    A game in progress - Haven't posted in a while, sorry! Here's a picture of a solo game in progress. The French have established a strong point in the village, the British are o...
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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...
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  • MOP - MAD ON PLAYMOBIL
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    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 ...
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  • 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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  • The Lair of the Green Tiger
    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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    Bavarians take 2 -
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  • WWII in 1/72 Scale
    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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    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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  • late roman figurines 1/72
    Scola scutariorum prima - Pour couronner ce projet de reconstitution de l’armée tardive romaine en Gaule, il me fallait représenter une schole palatine : l’unité la plus prestigieus...
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  • 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...
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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,...
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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
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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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    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...
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Websites & blogs dedicated to the Napoleonic Era

  • elrincondebyron.com
    Con Wellington por los Pirineos (XVII). Iglesia de San Andrés (Biarritz) - Tiempo de lectura: 6 minutos Una vez instaurada la paz, después de las campañas napoleónicas de 1813-1814, en el suroeste de Francia, algunas familias ingl...
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  • Brisbane Napoleonic modelling
    Victrix Austrian Salzburg Landwehr - I have finished the first company of the Salzburg Ladwehr battallion that is my latest project. I have tried to research the history of this unit to no a...
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  • Shannon Selin
    When Basil Hall Met Napoleon - Basil Hall was a British naval officer, traveller and author, who wrote engaging books about his trips to Asia, South America and North America in the ea...
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  • ANE
    La Infantería de Línea Española en 1808 - Texto: Luis Sorando Muzas Ilustraciones: Dionisio Álvarez Cueto Es creencia generalizada el que en 1808, al iniciarse la Guerra de la...
    3 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...
    7 years ago
  • les foudres de l'aigle
    Généraux français Perry Miniatures - Bonjour à tous voici de nouvelles figurines Perry Miniatures dans la série première empire à bientôt Christian.
    8 years ago
  • 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...
    9 years ago
  • Les Uniformes pendant la campagne des Cent Jours - Belgique 1815
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    2 days ago
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    2 days ago
  • Waterloo in 20mm
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    3 days ago
  • Waterloo 1/32
    An Unknown Account Of the Aftermath of The Battle Of Waterloo -
    3 days ago
  • napoleonic wargaming
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    3 days ago
  • One Sided Miniature Wargaming Discourse
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    3 days ago
  • Blunders on the Danube
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    3 days ago
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    4 days ago
  • Hinton Hunt Vintage Wargame Figures
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    4 days ago
  • JJ's Wargames
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    4 days ago
  • Grymauch's Solo Wargaming Blog
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    5 days ago
  • Wargamingnz
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    5 days ago
  • Chasseur
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    5 days ago
  • Stan's Armée 1/32 54mm Napoleonic plastic soldiers
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    1 week ago
  • Situation Room
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    1 week ago
  • von Peter himself
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    1 week ago
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  • The Dining Table Napoleon
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    1 week ago
  • Blue Max Miniatures
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  • Club LE SHAKKO
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    2 weeks ago
  • PMCD Mobilisatie battle reports
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    2 weeks ago
  • Un Marius sinon rien !
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    2 weeks ago
  • Chronicles of Dahara
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    2 weeks ago
  • Jemima Fawr's Miniature Wargames Blog
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    3 weeks ago
  • Service Ration Distribution (Hobby)
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    3 weeks ago
  • Horse and Musket Gaming
    Shameful - If only there had been a sign that the lying, cheating, draft dodging, insurrection promoting rapist was a piece of excrement.
    3 weeks ago
  • My 1/32 Wagram
    My Marshfeld from another vantage point - Here is the view looking north from just north of Aspern 1st; toward the western part of Wagram escarpment (location of Deutsch-Wagram village). With ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Warfare in the Age of Cynics and Amateurs
    54mm 'work in progress' for Volley & Bayonet - Rise of the 'Biggies' - Since last posting on Volley and Bayonet 54mm Napoleonics, I can now safely say that I have doubled the number of based units ...to 12. At this rate, I w...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Hinton Spieler.
    All Buttoned Up - The 2nd Light Infantry Battalion, King's German Legion, are ready to make their debut. They've been finished for a week now, in fact, but I was too busy ...
    1 month ago
  • Ilkley Old School
    Sickes Salient - Report - DBACW game using the Fire and Fury Sickles Salient scenario . This is a brigade level game with each unit an infantry brigade or artillery battalion of 2...
    3 months ago
  • Association - Les Riflemen
    ROMA VS PERSIA - *Le temple de Mars ne doit pas être profané en ce jour, l'armée romaine y veille!* *The temple of Mars must not be desecrated on this day, the Roman arm...
    3 months ago
  • Un Soixante-Douze
    Telnitz et Sokolnitz le 2 décembre 1805 au 1/72 -
    4 months ago
  • Wee Painted Men - Wargaming with Miniatures
    Hoplites - a wall of shields and spears! - My commission work this year has included a large number of hoplites by Crusader Miniatures. These were painted in stages I’m pleased to say - not all at...
    4 months ago
  • Napoleonics20/20
    - *BORODINO. 3rd and 4th June 2023. * *Apologies.....taken a while to post this!* With over 20 players wanting to join the action this was going to be...
    4 months ago
  • Austria and Russia - Napoleonic wars. Wargame 28mm,
    Moscow Opolchenie. 28 mm, Perry Miniatures. - *Московское ополчение.* Закончил недавно большой проект - ратники пеших полков Московского ополчения. Два батальона по 24 фигурки красил на заказ, один...
    8 months ago
  • HintonHull
    A game in progress - Haven't posted in a while, sorry! Here's a picture of a solo game in progress. The French have established a strong point in the village, the British are o...
    9 months 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...
    10 months 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    2 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...
    2 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...
    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...
    4 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
    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...
    5 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 ...
    5 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...
    5 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...
    5 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 ...
    5 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...
    5 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...
    6 years ago
  • L'Atelier des Portes d'argent
    Bavière 1809 - scénarios pour Batailles impériales - Dans le prochain Vae Victis (n°144, à paraitre à la fin du mois) se trouveront des scénarios pour la campagne de 1809, plus précisément pour les opérations...
    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
    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
  • 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...
    6 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 ...
    6 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 ...
    6 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
    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...
    7 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...
    7 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 ...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    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
    Newest Offerings From Warlord Games and Perry Miniatures - Warlord Games came out with marching plastic Napoleonic British infantry for both early and late war. They also have expanded their range of light infantr...
    9 years ago
  • Borodino 1812-2012 (and more...)
    Dal campo (vero) di battaglia di Waterloo, edizione bicentenario -
    9 years ago
  • Großbeeren 1813
    Back to blogging -
    10 years ago
  • Napoleonic Military Modelling
    Russian Imperial Army: Infantry -
    10 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...
    11 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...
    11 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...
    11 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
    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...
    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...
    12 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 ...
    14 years ago
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