"Staging BORODINO 2012 - designing a bloodbath - pics too..." Topic

This year we re-fought the Borodino bloodbath, like many others.

That's so very easily said or typed.

Getting the show on the road started back in 2011 and possibly way back in 1983. It wasn't easy.

This post is a fairly reflective and possibly irrelevant rambling journey through how the 2012 game came into being. It's very long so I have thrown in some piccies to lighten the tale. Full batreps will follow.

Hopefully this will provide an interesting aside to your morning or relieve you from the tedium of work for a while. As usual I advise that a pot of tea or coffee is prepared or if possible a glass is charged with a favoured tipple, I hope not to have wasted your time as it seemed worthwhile writing this at the time!!!

Here it is maraudermoments.blogspot.co.uk

Have fun

JJ
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JJ, you are living the dream. Definitely time well spent. Thanks for sharing.

Great looking game with some excellent paint work on the figures!! Thanks for posting! We're doing our at the end of this month.

Wonderful…as always!

Very enjoyable thanks JJ. It did read a bit like a MiniWargames/ Practical wargamer article. Will there be a follow up post on what happened?

Great pics with some really nice upclose shots. I certainly agree on the French 5th hussars being a great looking unit.

Great post JJ! Particularly fascinating, not to say cathartic for me to read, as I went through exactly the same thought processes and emotions in organising my own Borodino 200th Megagame this year:

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Faced with the same challenges, we took a different approach, and encouraged many players to become involved in the project, but attempting to raise their awareness and speed with the rules, in our case Black Powder, thorugh a series of parctice games in the 11 month run up to the big day. We also wanted to smash the game into a day's play, raising the stakes in terms of passion and drama. Not 100% effective, but, with following winds, we got there in the end!

However, in moving forward to next year's Gettysburg 150th game, we are moving closer to your solution, hoping for a smaller, more select band of players who are all knowlegeable about both the rules and the history, and splitting the 3 day battle into 3 days of play!

Thanks for all the positive feedback gents – makes one all warm inside. One day I'll finish this series and "move on" as they say.
Thanks again, jj

If you are interested in Grand Tactical Borodino then check out DBN Borodino on youtube.
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Jaw droppingly wonderful, superb figures , wargames heaven

Nice – why I wargame in a nutshell. Thanks

Brings back memories. Really nice figures and even better battle secenes. Thanks!