"Miniature Warfare in Occupied Paris" Topic

Amazing article linked to some day ago on bgg;

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Do not see any link to it already on tmp, but maybe this is all old news here? Hexagons and buckets of dice in a miniatures game already in 1939, and the story of the people behind the game.

(By Jon Peterson that wrote the Playing At The World book, and blog by the same name. Also very much worth reading.)

Thank you. I'd seen reference to the article, but the previous link failed. Very interesting, and several ways.

First and most, it's the earliest reference I've seen to historical miniature warfare--that is, rules to replicate a period already past when the rules were written. (That it would be the French replicating the Napoleonic period fails to surprise.)

Less important, but still intriguing is that I was on the very distant fringes of the Condray group and remember the "French kriegspiel" but have no recollection of hexagons in that context. Did Pat modify the rules to that extent?

But miniatures on hexagons wouldn't have surprised me--first because squares go back a long way and hexagons are a logical development, but also because I remember them in a Seifried Napoleonic set--perhaps from the early 1970's? Did this also have roots in the French game?

Can any of the rules junkies help me out here?

Pollen, thanks for posting this, it is news to me and absolutely fascinating. I would very much like to see the rules, do you know of anyone who has them or where they can be found?

Thanks for this.

Some Information here

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Partial copy of the Rules here

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Wonderful find, in fact probably the best thing I have ever found on TMP.

This is excellent, Redblack. Thank you!

A long but fascinating read…