"Action with the Mamelukes" Topic
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Tango01  | 23 Sep 2025 4:20 p.m. PST |
"With the completion of the Ottoman artillery I turned my attention to a game to use them in. From the start of the Ottoman expansion the plan was to base the game around the Battle of the Pyramids where a force of infantry and artillery held a fortified camp around the village of Embarbeh on the West Bank of the Nile, opposite Cairo, while a large force of mounted Mamelukes hurled themselves repeatedly against the French divisional squares. The problem here is that it was a dreadfully one sided affair where the a French lost less than 300 casualties, but inflicted more than 10,000 on the Mamelukes. To do such a game justice I would need a lot more figures and do I really need more than 11 units of Mameluke cavalry. Added to that, the purist in me says that all my French figures are in the colourful Kléber uniforms rather than the Revolutionary uniforms with their bicornes…"
1866 and all that
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Armand
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| Sydney Gamer | 23 Sep 2025 7:45 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 24 Sep 2025 5:31 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend… Armand |
| Cacadoress | 27 Sep 2025 9:37 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2025 10:07 p.m. PST |
Happy you like it too… Armand |
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