Bob the Temple Builder | 15 Jun 2019 7:41 a.m. PST |
The BBC has a short report about the huge re-fight of the Battle of Waterloo that is taking place in Glasgow this weekend. It will involve over 100 participants and 22,,000 28mm-scale figures! link |
Vintage Wargaming | 15 Jun 2019 8:22 a.m. PST |
Normal Saturday night in Sauciehall Street then |
advocate | 15 Jun 2019 9:01 a.m. PST |
Whilst I have criticisms of it as a recreation of the battle, it is a great spectacle. There are a number of displays, re-enactors and (largely unrelated) wargames on the visitors' gallery. All very well organised, too. |
colgar6 | 15 Jun 2019 9:23 a.m. PST |
Just got home from this event. Some photos and quick notes here: link |
Artilleryman | 15 Jun 2019 10:39 a.m. PST |
Looks like it was a hoot (as they say in Glasgow)! |
Old Contemptible | 15 Jun 2019 5:21 p.m. PST |
Very nice indeed. But as large a battle as Waterloo is, it would have been more practical at 15mm instead of 28mm. |
Quintus Valerius | 15 Jun 2019 6:24 p.m. PST |
2mm to 6mm. anything over is far too large! :) |
Keith Talent | 16 Jun 2019 3:50 a.m. PST |
The game is pretty much secondary to the charity and media aspect, so 28mm is much more visual for the public. If you wanted an accurate, faithful Waterloo wargame, then you wouldn't necessarily do it like this, but if you want to promote a Waterloo charity, you would. It's a means to an end. |
oldnorthstate | 17 Jun 2019 6:54 a.m. PST |
Finally some honesty…it was an "event" to raise money for charity. That's fine, although done correctly, something like this could serve both as an event and a game. But in order to do that you would need a tighter organization and implementation. It could, no, has been done in 28mm, so the figure scale is not the issue. |
JimDuncanUK | 17 Jun 2019 7:00 a.m. PST |
It looked just like a game to me, just a 'bloody big one'. |
advocate | 17 Jun 2019 9:34 a.m. PST |
And the organisation seemed tight to me. My criticism, such as I have, was that it was too much of a game (large numbers of French corps attacking simultaneously, Allies defending the line of Hougoumont-La Haye Saint rather than having them as bastions in front of the line, massed French columns with no deployment space forcing through the woods at Hougoumont). But I've seen worse refights of Waterloo, and in this case quantity really did have a quality of its own. |
battleeditor | 17 Jun 2019 6:04 p.m. PST |
If you want some of the facts behind the organisation of the game, and why it was done in this way, listen to Professor Tony Pollard on my Battlechat podcast at link Henry |
War Artisan | 19 Jun 2019 10:01 a.m. PST |
And it made headlines. link link I welcome any media coverage that doesn't paint us as a bunch of hopeless geeks obsessed with an arcane and questionable hobby. |
Trajanus | 19 Jun 2019 2:28 p.m. PST |
Nice illustration of the eternal 28mm problem. Make the table as long as you like, you can never make it deep enough! |
Yellow Admiral | 19 Jun 2019 5:31 p.m. PST |
I welcome any media coverage that doesn't paint us as a bunch of hopeless geeks obsessed with an arcane and questionable hobby. So you prefer that journalists lie? <dives for cover> |
Yellow Admiral | 19 Jun 2019 5:32 p.m. PST |
If someone does Trafalgar this way, I'm flying to Europe to attend. No way I'm sitting that one out. - Ix |