"Giant Waterloo mat by Cigar Box" Topic

Has anyone seen the newer 15' x 7' mat for Waterloo produced by Cigar Box Battle, meant to represent 1" equals 100 yards?

Part of my curiosity is that the actual Waterloo battle line was only 2.5 miles long, whereas this mat represents 10 miles by 4.5 miles.

Wants to take into account Grouchy and the Prussians and British reserves on their far right flank (forget where they were and stayed)?

Tempted, also the Gettysburg mat

It says 1' (one foot) to 100yds not 1" (one inch) and it is 15ft wide.

At a glance it shows most of the Allies vs Napoleon field and leaves plenty of room for some Prussian intervention to the East, but I think it excludes Plancenoit. It does look very nice indeed, but it is 350 bucks……

Shame they no longer seem to have a supplier in the UK.

This is a 'Giant Waterloo Map'.

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24 metres by 8 metres.

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Wait until you all see Capt. Siborne's Model of Waterloo Remodelled, at the National Army Museum in London. The word is that it will be the size of a tennis court, but indoors, all in 1/72 scale.

That Glasgow display I missed and how I do regret that.

I am trying to think of a way to use this. I already have all the buildings and terrain. I don't understand why you want to play Waterloo or any battle with flat printed terrain.

To me it looks odd to have figures marching on the tops of trees. It does show you were everything is placed. So I guess I could put my trees on the printed trees, buildings on top of buildings, etc.

The mat would be great for aerial games. I could see WW1 and WW2 aircraft dogfighting on this mat.

Have to play outside

@deadhead—the 1 foot is a typo. It is 1 inch equals 100 yards. It also does include Placenoit. I got an email back from them confirming this. The idea is to allow much more maneuver on the flanks.

How do you move troops in the middle of a seven-foot-wide table? Is that possible?

4th Cuirassier, I used to have regular access to a 7x24. It's just possible. Of course, it helped that wargamers' stomachs didn't keep them quite as far from the table 50 years ago. Even then, you'd sometimes see a young thin gamer crawling on the table itself.

I regard 6' as the practical max and 7' as something to be considered in special circumstances--which, of course, this would be.

OC, you're almost there. You'd place buildings and trees where the mat put them, hills possibly under the mat, and do nothing to fields, streams and roads. This means your roads would not separate and joints, your woods boundaries would be clear, and your buildings wouldn't exceed their historical scale footprint. I have seen too often a ground scale of about 1/500 with La Haye Saint and Hougoumont at 1/72 or 1/56.

Croupier sticks?

A propos, I've long considered something like that, to allow greater depth for reserves (without playing "along", rather than "across" a table), involving something like those RAF HQs seen in some 1950s/1960s movies, but that requires both a smooth surface – such as the Waterloo mat in question appears to be – and fairly big, stable, blocks of troops. Casualty removal wouldn't really be an option.