| Fireymonkeyboy | 27 Jul 2014 3:30 p.m. PST |
Hi, Anyone know of a battle featuring both? FMB |
| John the OFM | 27 Jul 2014 4:25 p.m. PST |
Yorktown, but nobody likes to talk about it. |
| Glengarry5 | 27 Jul 2014 5:27 p.m. PST |
I think there were elephant carrying balloons (or was it elephants towing balloons?) at Plassey. :) |
Bunkermeister  | 27 Jul 2014 6:07 p.m. PST |
In WWII in Hamburg and possibly Berlin, the Germans used Indian elephants and barrage balloons. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog |
| Altefritz | 27 Jul 2014 6:09 p.m. PST |
Maybe during the French-Indian wars…Montgolfier balloons against elephants besieging Paris…. |
Roderick Robertson  | 27 Jul 2014 6:38 p.m. PST |
The Cooper and Bailey Circus/P.T. Barnum's Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Hippodrome kerfuffle of 1867 in Bonaparte, Iowa. |
| jpattern2 | 27 Jul 2014 7:27 p.m. PST |
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| Fireymonkeyboy | 28 Jul 2014 8:24 a.m. PST |
Yorktown does have appeal, but the hipster in me realizes that now that the masses have discovered AWI gaming, the cachet is gone. And the Hamburg / Berlin thing has been done. I was thinking maybe something with the Brits in India, but don't know the period well enough, hence the question. I'm guessing the answer is no, or do folks just not know? FMB |
| 15th Hussar | 28 Jul 2014 8:13 p.m. PST |
I've never 'eard of Balloons in India. However, you could stretch an F TROOP scenario…camels and balloons, plus Heckawee! I also liked Roderick's potential scenario! |
| abdul666lw | 29 Jul 2014 6:55 a.m. PST |
Kunersdorf: Russian jingal elephants (a gift from the Shah as a token of anti-Ottoman alliance) vs Prussian zambereck camels (a gift from the Porte as a token of anti-Austrian alliance); balloons can appear on either side. |
| spontoon | 29 Jul 2014 4:22 p.m. PST |
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| Patrice | 30 Jul 2014 9:11 a.m. PST |
The siege of Paris in the FPW
…although it depends how you want your elephant cooked :) French war minister Léon Gambetta left Paris in a hot air balloon to try to organize the army. At the same time, people of Paris were eating the zoo animals and this menu includes elephant soup:
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| Fireymonkeyboy | 03 Aug 2014 2:28 p.m. PST |
Patrice, Unsure of the gaming potential, but that's brilliant ;) FMB |
