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And last but not least I included in this 4 part series the pics of the members of the Club in action, it shows the actual size of the wargames table, AND the fact it is a real wargame (even more merit!).
I am a solo wargamer living on the back of beyond… but I still can appreciate this kind of assembly!
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And of course I must praise the author of the pics…
Extremely tasteful if you ask my opinion.
In fact if they were not so good they would not be here in this Blog in the first place.
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The “close ups” are simply magnificent!
Do not know exactly the make of the minis but I guess a mix of Perry´s, Front Rank and the like are very probably there.
Such a pleasure to wargame with those minis.
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Here they go again.
The kind of Club and members I would probably have tried to join in my 30´s or 40´s… at the height of my Napoleonic fever…
I would not have painted my minis to such a standard… but been a Club I could have payed for a good painter I guess…
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Ancients were a passion early on my days of wargaming, a classical education… plenty of books to read…
Plenty of lore and legend…
And above all the distance from it!
Later I could not stand close steel combat and found it too harsh!
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There were pics also of the wargames table and the participants in the game… but somehow I find those atmospherical pics more inspiring…
I could be wrong of course…
Maybe I will edit before publishing and include them… who knows…
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The Peninsular War was not one of Napoleon’s brightest ideas… veterans misused… young recruits wasted… and they only conquered the soil under their feet.
A Big Army starves… and Small Army is defeated. This was coined specially for the Iberian peninsula.
Perry Miniatures are the best in 28MM in my humble opinion… or among the very best… there are so many good quality makers nowadays…
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The British (and Portuguese Allies) Peninsular Campaign was a mastery use of what was later called “The Indirect Approach”.
Wargamers much concentrated on the gaming side of the hobby should read a lot about the smallness of the British Army… and how well handed it was by the Duke of Wellington.
If his Indian Campaigns were masterfully handed, in the Peninsula up to the battle of Toulouse (in French soil and sadly fought for nothing because Napoleon had abdicated days before…) he did nothing wrong (well, Burgos was a check) retired when he had to, advanced when it was the moment… the Spanish did not like at all to be invaded twice by foreign Armies… but cooperated with Wellington more or less successfully… their time of past glory long gone in time…
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York and Lancaster little conflict (not if you were in the first line mind)… colourful troops if there ever was any…
Again I will repeat not my period at all… but quite fascinated by the level of the painting job.
So…
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Some nice pics of well painted 28mm minis. Not that I miss the Napoleonic period at all (Too Big Span of time… too many Armies… too prone to megalomania I fear).
Seriously, one of the best wargaming periods round the world.
Enjoy!
