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"Waterloo 209th anniversary" Topic
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14Bore | 18 Jun 2024 6:47 a.m. PST |
Can't wait for Historicon, I am signed up for 2 Waterloo battle games, never had one. Did play Quatre Bra not long ago but on allies failed badly |
Shagnasty ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 18 Jun 2024 7:20 a.m. PST |
A great Allied victory over the Corsican Ogre. |
Michael May ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 18 Jun 2024 9:45 a.m. PST |
"My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
The Virtual Armchair General ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 18 Jun 2024 10:18 a.m. PST |
Nappy had it comin'. Too bad it took some 25,000 other poor schmucks to pay for his ticket to St. Helena. TVAG |
14Bore | 18 Jun 2024 3:02 p.m. PST |
Watching the 1970 Waterloo on YouTube, just to make sure Boney still loses |
14Bore | 19 Jun 2024 9:08 a.m. PST |
I grew up thinking that's how Napoleonic warfare was, it's might be as close as it gets, War and Peace might be a bit better, but does any movie actually do Napoleonic warfare right? |
Mark J Wilson | 28 Jun 2024 10:39 a.m. PST |
@ 14Bore, does any movie do real war right; well by definition no one dies so in one way no. then it depends on your view of right. A movie will always show you more angles than any one individual would have had because no individual spent the whole of the battle fighting. In view of the terrain Waterloo probably did have a few big panoramic view moments that looked impressive. By comparison suppose you wanted to do a film of Wagram; the Saxons and 'German' Austrians fighting in white uniforms in the dark in the burning village of Aderklaa would look very different. |
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