Tango01  | 13 Feb 2018 9:46 p.m. PST |
Of possible interest? link Hope you enjoy! Amicalement
Armand |
| Navy Fower Wun Seven | 13 Feb 2018 11:52 p.m. PST |
Yes very interesting thanks Armand! |
| Lets party with Cossacks | 13 Feb 2018 11:58 p.m. PST |
Nice find Tango. If I understand the site correctly a restored and coloured photo 1912 of the battlefield, presumably on its 99 year anniversary. |
| Cerdic | 14 Feb 2018 2:34 a.m. PST |
Interesting how open the farmland is. Very little in the way of hedges, walls, or fences. Cultivation seems to be in wide strips, very like Medieval Western Europe, with no visible boundary markers. The hardest part to replicate on a wargames table is the gently undulating nature of the ground. It doesn't look much, but it would be easy for a body of troops to disappear. |
| 1968billsfan | 14 Feb 2018 6:50 a.m. PST |
…..and for high velocity cannon balls to go overhead or stick in the upward sloping ground. Gee, maybe they should have had about a third of the artillery as howitzers and licornes…… |
| marshalGreg | 14 Feb 2018 7:24 a.m. PST |
@ Cedric
My solution to that was to randomize the LOS and use blinds.
I have used it several times now at the US Historicon in the past 3 yrs with great success and a great twist to the players game enjoyment and for myself, as game master.
It creates some unique and interesting situations and challenges for the players without too much loss of game time/speed. @1968billsfan, Per my Borodino board game, IIRC, there was a ad hoc mini-grand battery of all the howitzers pulled from the Corp's batteries just for that fact. MG |
| TMPWargamerabbit | 14 Feb 2018 8:57 a.m. PST |
MG.
For the battle smoke and ground dips/folds our 25/28mm horse and musket era games use the skirmisher screens to represent units hiding behind low ground our thick smoke. If a skirmisher screen is placed before a battalion then artillery fire through the skirmisher position is reduced greatly to reflect units taking advance of the local terrain while "covered", rolling smoke clouds, and prevent enemy surprises by their skirmishers exposed before the unit's position. Nice photos Tango. Interesting to see the lay of the battlefield. |
| Tango01 | 14 Feb 2018 10:59 a.m. PST |
You are right my friend Lets party with Cossacks….
Happy you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile)
Amicalement
Armand |
| Gazzola | 14 Feb 2018 12:01 p.m. PST |
Tango01 Nice site. Have added it to the other sites and info. The more we have the better. Well spotted. |
| 14Bore | 14 Feb 2018 1:21 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 15 Feb 2018 10:43 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it too my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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