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Re: Ligny and Quatre Bras: wargaming the historical battles
Well, 2020 might be written off but there is always 2021 to look forward to.
Where does your Train and Hobby Show reside? I might just turn up next year! It will be, for instance, the 263rd (I think) anniversary of Leuthen (5 December 1757). Your new Austrians could have a 'public' outing, and this time they might just be on the winning side...just if they can move fast enough to block the Prussian oblique attack. And if they have not already done so, Strelets might be suitably inspired by this to produce some SYW cavalry (VIP ticket included)….you never know.
Re: Ligny and Quatre Bras: wargaming the historical battles
Minuteman
Well, 2020 might be written off but there is always 2021 to look forward to.
Where does your Train and Hobby Show reside? I might just turn up next year! It will be, for instance, the 263rd (I think) anniversary of Leuthen (5 December 1757). Your new Austrians could have a 'public' outing, and this time they might just be on the winning side...just if they can move fast enough to block the Prussian oblique attack. And if they have not already done so, Strelets might be suitably inspired by this to produce some SYW cavalry (VIP ticket included)….you never know.
August, in Pine Rivers in Brisbane, QLD. OZ.
Turn up? You'd be given a command & a place of honour!
2021 will be Antietam. One of our number is very much a fan of the ACW. He is currently constructing the unique terrain items needed. Literally dozens of metres of snake fencing & his cornfields! You need to see them.
So Strelets (& maybe HaT's???) ACW output is very opportune.
Re: Ligny and Quatre Bras: wargaming the historical battles
Hallo Donald,
your Ligny-Battlefield is really great... !
I am totally surprised that the Battle of Ligny is being depicted in Australia.
Here in Europe, the Battle of Ligny, which the Prussians fought without any hope of British support, is almost forgotten. Maybe because it wasn't a "glorious victory"... But the Prussians stopped Napoleon's advance there, forced him to battle and inflicted heavy losses on him. Without Ligny, there would have been no victory at Waterloo.
That's why I'm really excited about your Ligny game and the great details of the landscape.
I am totally surprised that the Battle of Ligny is being depicted in Australia.
Here in Europe, the Battle of Ligny, which the Prussians fought without any hope of British support, is almost forgotten. Maybe because it wasn't a "glorious victory"... But the Prussians stopped Napoleon's advance there, forced him to battle and inflicted heavy losses on him. Without Ligny, there would have been no victory at Waterloo.
Here, in Australia, Gerd, the topics of Prussia & Ligny are rarely off people's lips.
But seriously, a few people in OZ, like any where else, know some history & the vast majority struggle to know anything that happened before last Tuesday.