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Title: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: SgtPerry on June 22, 2010, 04:15:27 PM

Here's another after action report of Moulins & Chemins Creux ( Windmills and Sunken Roads ), a modification to Legends of the Old West.

In this scenario, the Vendeen party must protect the windmill from the republican hussars de la mort.

http://perrysheroes.free.fr/spip.php?article308

(http://perrysheroes.free.fr/IMG/jpg/Avaricum2010_MeCCWindMill_4-2.jpg)

Olivier

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: Colonel Tubby on June 22, 2010, 07:15:34 PM

Wow - as good as the 'Capture the Bridge' battle report!

I hope you continue to keep us up-to-date with progress in the Vendee?

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: Plynkes on June 22, 2010, 07:45:12 PM

Excellent stuff. More, please.


By the way, what has the First Republic got against windmills? Are they not sufficiently egalitarian?  :)

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: SgtPerry on June 22, 2010, 09:14:44 PM

Some mills were used for the powder but the most important they were used by the royalists as a communication system : http://perrysheroes.free.fr/spip.php?article257

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: Plynkes on June 22, 2010, 09:15:47 PM

Ah, it all makes perfect sense now. Thank you very much.

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: Aaron on June 23, 2010, 12:53:40 PM

Ah, that does make perfect sense. A sort of makeshift Chappe telegraph, eh?

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: General Roos on June 23, 2010, 01:27:43 PM

Excellent! Vive la roi!

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: Centaur_Seducer on June 23, 2010, 03:19:56 PM

Its a cool idea for a rather neglected age (everything Napoleon tends to focus on the large scale battle) :)
Look forward for some more!

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on June 24, 2010, 12:20:06 PM

Lovely stuff, Olivier! You've really captured the look of the Vendeen countryside.

It makes me wish we were going back to the Vendee this year, but I suppose Brittany isn't a bad holiday destination instead  :)

Title: Re: Burn the windmill, skirmish in Vendée, 1794
Post by: Axebreaker on June 24, 2010, 07:47:33 PM

Love the windmill! :-* :-*

Christopher