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Archduke Piccolo: October 2014
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Big Battles for Small Tables - A Little Play Test. Two Hungarian Divisions close in upon the French. The French skirmishers suffer heavily and are driven in. The Hungarians prepare to engage the forward. The Hungarians now closed up to bring the 14th Division main body into action. So it happened. Despite giving somewhat better than they receive...
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Archduke Piccolo: Lasalle.
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Monday, April 20, 2015. Just over a week ago, I had a return match with Andy, following my close-fought victory of the weekend before. This time it was a Napoleonic game, using Mark's figures and the rule set Lasalle. For his account of the action. His pictures are by and large better than mine, too. The French line, looking west to east. Foot Battery: 4 cannon;. Arriving from ...
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Archduke Piccolo: December 2014
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Monday, December 29, 2014. Additions to the inventory of the Raesharn Imperial Army. The FlaK vehicle need a bit of work. Whilst my next BB4ST posting is still in draft - piccies: need piccies - I have been doing a bit of a tidy up and cull of the enormous quantities of paper that I have accumulated over several. Early repairs/ modifications to the FlaK vehicle - I think. But f...
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Archduke Piccolo: May 2015
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Saturday, May 9, 2015. At about the Winter Solstice, a whole bunch of Christchurch gamers (plus one from Dunedin) will be pooling their armies for a weekend commemorative refight of Waterloo. The rule in use for this occasion - not my favorite by any means - will be the General de Brigade. Set, modified somewhat for Waterloo. And Paul ( Painting Little Soldiers. With the distan...
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Archduke Piccolo: July 2014
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Big battles for Small tables - Some design comments. Rather than record actual rules just yet, I wish to relate some of the thinking behind what I hope to achieve. I sure lord want to test that! 1: First of all, some clarifications of nomenclature:. A Brigade, Division, Army Corps or Army. Also under this label comes a Column (big C). Some sort of ordr...
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Archduke Piccolo: January 2015
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Plattville Valley' action from a game played. Nearly 5 years ago. All these pics appeared in. This blog about 5 years back ( see here. Rule set many zillions of years ago, he was including that set among his range of options. I thought that was very kind of him - and flattering too. Detail from the 'Plattville Valley' action. But 6 of those nearly e...
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Archduke Piccolo: April 2015
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Monday, April 20, 2015. Just over a week ago, I had a return match with Andy, following my close-fought victory of the weekend before. This time it was a Napoleonic game, using Mark's figures and the rule set Lasalle. For his account of the action. His pictures are by and large better than mine, too. The French line, looking west to east. Foot Battery: 4 cannon;. Arriving from ...
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Archduke Piccolo: May 2014
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Thursday, May 29, 2014. Big Battles for Small Tables. V Army Corps, with 24-figure tactical units representing Divisions. At 1:200 scale, this Army Corps comprises 90 figures including. Marshal Ney and his ADC - 18,000 troops and 32 guns. Infantry Front Rank (I think) and artillery and Corps Command. Army corps with 24-figure infantry tactical units representing. My preference,...
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Archduke Piccolo: Napoleonic warm up...
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A very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns. with pictures; lotsa pictures. Saturday, May 9, 2015. At about the Winter Solstice, a whole bunch of Christchurch gamers (plus one from Dunedin) will be pooling their armies for a weekend commemorative refight of Waterloo. The rule in use for this occasion - not my favorite by any means - will be the General de Brigade. Set, modified somewhat for Waterloo. And Paul ( Painting Little Soldiers. With the distan...