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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP31 May 2025 12:47 p.m. PST

" was whilst reading Marin Rapier's own One Hour Ligny, and how that Portable Wargame went, that I began to look back at my own version, played out some 18 months back. Although the outcomes were rather different, both games indicated that the Armee du Nord had no easy time of it edging the Prussian army behind the Ligny Stream.

The big difference is that Martin played his action out on a 9x9 hex board; mine was on a 15x12 array – in numbers hex-grid cells, twice as large. His game took an hour to play, apparently; mine a deal longer (though I was in no mad rush at the time)…"

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