| Mad Guru | 30 Apr 2018 1:28 a.m. PST |
To commemorate today's 155th Anniversary of the Battle of Camerone, I've posted an After Action Report to my Camerone Day blog courtesy of my friend Nick Stern, who recently GM'ed this hardfought, close-run game. If you'd like to see and read more about it, click on the link below, and thanks in advance for your time if you do so! Vive le Legion! link
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| Cacique Caribe | 30 Apr 2018 1:48 a.m. PST |
Wow, I had heard stories about a prosthetic hand but, until now, I had no clue of the connection. link Dan |
 Yellow Admiral  | 30 Apr 2018 3:26 a.m. PST |
The scatter terrain in that game was awesome. - Ix |
| Gone Fishing | 30 Apr 2018 8:43 a.m. PST |
This looks like great fun. I've always enjoyed "defense against overwhelming odds" scenarios – The Alamo, Rorke's Drift – and Camerone is one of the best of them. The table and figures look splendid. Thanks for sharing, Guru! |
| Liliburlero | 30 Apr 2018 9:30 a.m. PST |
MG, Thanks for the post. I may have shared this on TMP before but – when Dad was on a Med cruise before making the landing at Inchon in 1950, he went to the FFL museum and saw Captain Danjou's hand. It was one of the highlights of his life and he told that story every year around this time. Of course his fellow Marines were not visiting any museums……… |
| Ragbones | 30 Apr 2018 10:14 a.m. PST |
Legio Patria Nostra. Thanks for sharing, Mad Guru. |
| Frederick | 30 Apr 2018 11:40 a.m. PST |
Vive le morte
Vive le guerre
Vive le legion etranger Thanks for posting! |
| Walking Sailor | 30 Apr 2018 5:05 p.m. PST |
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| Old Wolfman | 01 May 2018 7:10 a.m. PST |
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| Youngknight | 01 May 2018 1:17 p.m. PST |
Built my model based roughly on pictures posted here on TMP. Ran it at at our Club and then at Huzzah several years ago. Always a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing this. |
| Cuirassier | 03 May 2018 6:43 a.m. PST |
Awesome! Thanks for sharing with us, Mad Guru. Here's Captain Danjou's portrait (he's on the top right)… RIGHT-CLICK ON THE IMAGE, COPY AND PASTE THE URL/ADDRESS OF THE PHOTO, THEN CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT:
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| takeda333 | 05 May 2018 7:52 a.m. PST |
Excellent report and beautiful game and terrain. |
| Mad Guru | 05 May 2018 4:33 p.m. PST |
Thank you Takeda and thanks to everyone for the very nice comments, and a special thanks to Cuirassier for providing his typically amazing brand of historical photographic evidence! @Daryl: Hopefully when the time comes to run Camerone at my place again, you will be there my friend! @Liliburlero: I remember that great story about your dad seeing Danjou's wooden hand in the Legion museum, Lori, and thank you for retelling it here again! |
| Old Contemptibles | 07 May 2018 8:02 a.m. PST |
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has been watching some documentaries lately set in the Western Desert, and was inspired to create this...
