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Offline carojon

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Talavera 208 - Game One
« on: 27 June 2017, 07:46:21 AM »
This weekend myself and six friends took the time to recognise National Armed Forces Day and support Combat Stress by playing the first of a series of refights of the Battle of Talavera fought two hundred and eight years ago on the 27th/28th July 1809



In this first game, our French team of players attempted to fight the plan envisaged by their historical counterparts with a few tweaks at improvement.

Of course they couldn't know what our Anglo-Spanish team would do in response!

We had quite a few twists and turns with an uncanny similarity to the actual battle.

If you would like to see how things turned out and perhaps support the project with a contribution to the Just Giving page, then follow the link to JJ's

http://jjwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/talavera-208-afternoon-attack-game-one.html

Lots of stuff in this post.

Jonathan (JJ)
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Offline AlyMorrison

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Re: Talavera 208 - Game One
« Reply #1 on: 27 June 2017, 08:17:38 AM »
What a beautiful looking game Jonathan...

And what a lot of lovely toys... :o


All the best. Aly


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Offline carojon

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Re: Talavera 208 - Game One
« Reply #2 on: 27 June 2017, 08:23:18 AM »
Hi Aly,
Thank you, we had a blast getting them all out and taking two days to play the thing.

Cheers
JJ

Offline Jabba

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Re: Talavera 208 - Game One
« Reply #3 on: 27 June 2017, 12:47:31 PM »
Well that looked like a great two days of gaming. Glad it all worked out so well after all the hours you have put into it.

Tony.

Offline gustav

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Re: Talavera 208 - Game One
« Reply #4 on: 27 June 2017, 03:55:01 PM »
Wow.. looked fantastic - great aar too.   :-*

Offline vtsaogames

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Re: Talavera 208 - Game One
« Reply #5 on: 27 June 2017, 04:30:52 PM »
What they said: great stuff.
And the glorious general led the advance
With a glorious swish of his sword and his lance
And a glorious clank of his tin-plated pants. - Dr. Seuss


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Offline carojon

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Re: Talavera 208 - Game One
« Reply #6 on: 28 June 2017, 05:57:07 PM »
Hi Chaps, thanks for your comments and really pleased you enjoyed the game report.
As you might have imagined we had a great weekend totally immersed in a big game.
The next play through will be the anniversary game next month.

Cheers
JJ

 

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