"SOFO museum: Waterloo game, 24 October 2015" Topic
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| ChrisBBB | 04 Sep 2015 7:41 a.m. PST |
Hopefully people will have recovered from a surfeit of Waterloo wargaming back in June, and are ready to hear about the Waterloo display/participation game we will be running in our local military museum. Saturday 24 October 2015
Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO), Woodstock, Oxon UK Oxford Wargames Society will be running a display/participation game of the battle of Waterloo. We have cunningly avoided the actual anniversary by a few months so as to avoid clashing with everyone else's anniversary games. Official listing is on the SOFO website:
sofo.org.uk/whatson.php If any TMP members are in range and have the time and inclination to drop by, it would be great to meet you. Chris
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| janner | 04 Sep 2015 8:15 a.m. PST |
I wish I could pop by. I hope it all goes swimmingly  |
| Navy Fower Wun Seven | 04 Sep 2015 3:34 p.m. PST |
Yes all the best with this, looking forward to hearing about it! |
| ChrisBBB | 05 Sep 2015 3:33 a.m. PST |
Thanks for your kind wishes, chaps. A report will certainly follow in due course. Chris |
| ChrisBBB | 24 Sep 2015 5:21 a.m. PST |
One month to go until the Waterloo event at SOFO. First playtest of the Waterloo game was very satisfactory. I also made a fun map which shows how the Waterloo campaign fits nicely onto the county of Oxfordshire. Imagine Napoleon invading from Swindon and Reading towards Brussels aka Banbury. Oxford is the Quatre Bras crossroads where Ney is stalled. Napoleon hits the Prussians at Wheatley (Ligny), trying to drive them back along their supply line to High Wycombe (Namur), but instead they fall back northwards upon Bicester (Wavre). The Anglo-Dutch forces scattered around Cheltenham and Stow-on-the-Wold join those retreating from Quatre Bras and unite at Woodstock (Waterloo). I put a draft of the map on Flickr.
flic.kr/p/yJUdiy Chris |
| KTravlos | 24 Sep 2015 9:59 a.m. PST |
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 deadhead  | 24 Sep 2015 11:58 a.m. PST |
Brilliant idea………..I love it…..inspired! Must try that locally. We should all copy this to appreciate distances involved. I did the Wavre to Plancenoit walk, but most of it is through suburban middle class Belgium, paved roads most of the way and the only danger to you now is when the pavement runs out and the cars whizz by (on't wrong side of 't road as well!) |
| ChrisBBB | 24 Sep 2015 3:18 p.m. PST |
Yeah, it's quite instructive, isn't it! I figured it would be a good way to help members of the public understand and relate to the campaign and the events leading up to the battle. Wonderful that it mapped onto Oxfordshire so perfectly. Chris
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| ChrisBBB | 13 Oct 2015 2:09 p.m. PST |
Counting down the days to our SOFO Waterloo event. Chris |
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