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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Koppi on 30 August 2020, 11:10:11 AM

Title: Wavre - 18./19.06.1815
Post by: Koppi on 30 August 2020, 11:10:11 AM
Old report, pictures from Army Museum Paris 2019.
Please scroll down for english version.


https://thrifles.blogspot.com/2020/08/die-schlacht-bei-wavre-1819061815.html


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Title: Re: Wavre - 18./19.06.1815
Post by: War In 15MM on 30 August 2020, 03:29:04 PM
I have been there.  I have never seen any place like it.
Title: Re: Wavre - 18./19.06.1815
Post by: Warboss Nick on 31 August 2020, 07:12:51 PM
Thank you for an excellent read! We forget too often that the hundred days have much more to offer than “just” Waterloo.
Title: Re: Wavre - 18./19.06.1815
Post by: Cat on 31 August 2020, 07:15:30 PM
Ooh, nice photos!


Quote from: Warboss Nick on 31 August 2020, 07:12:51 PM
Thank you for an excellent read! We forget too often that the hundred days have much more to offer than “just” Waterloo.

Quatre Bras is the battle I've played the most, that makes a great game.  And you can start with that long before you've painted all the minis for Waterloo!
Title: Re: Wavre - 18./19.06.1815
Post by: Warboss Nick on 01 September 2020, 07:50:33 PM
Quote from: Cat on 31 August 2020, 07:15:30 PM
Ooh, nice photos!


Quatre Bras is the battle I've played the most, that makes a great game.  And you can start with that long before you've painted all the minis for Waterloo!

Not to forget Ligny with its different areas of battle and all the skirmishes leading up to the major battles.
Title: Re: Wavre - 18./19.06.1815
Post by: Baron von Wreckedoften on 02 September 2020, 11:21:23 AM
And let's not forget the other theatres outside Belgium:-

* Internal uprisings against Napoleon in Provence, Brittany and La Vendee
* Murat v Bellegarde in Naples
* Rapp v Wurttemburg (very last battle of the Napoleonic Wars at La Soufel - a French win!)
* Wrede's Bavarian/Russian corps attacks Nancy
* Lecourbe (mainly National Guards) v Colloredo in the Jura
* Suchet v Frimont (Austro-Sardinian) in Savoy
* Brune v Bianchi (Austrian) and Hudson-Lowe (Anglo-Sicilian) around Marseilles and Toulon

And if all that doesn't work, you've got 150,000+ Russians under de Tolly (who arrived just too late for the real thing).