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Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Napoleonic Invasion of Britain

I was flicking through my old copies of Miniature Warfare magazine and came across an interesting 2 part article by the Bletchley Wargames Group covering a what if Napoleons Invasion of Britain.

I enjoyed re reading the article and I thought I would share. Apologies that I loaned the mag out and page 1 has been written on.








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8 comments:

  1. The Good Soldier Svjek14 November 2017 at 09:30

    I remember this article and wish I'd kept the magazines which seem far better in those days (rose tinted glasses maybe ? )

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    1. Mark Dudley16 November 2017 at 10:52

      I have managed to keep about 30 of them. They are dated by today's standards but the adverts and shop directory where useful in the pre internet days.

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  2. Stryker14 November 2017 at 11:09

    I still have the magazines with both articles, I found it inspirational at the time. It has been in the back of my mind since I started my HH project to refight the battles and I probably have enough stuff to do it now. It might make a good subject for a mini retro campaign too!

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    1. Mark Dudley16 November 2017 at 10:55

      It would make an interesting retro campaign. Similiar in manys ways to Mauruce De Saxe plans to invade England in 1744.

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  3. Graham C14 November 2017 at 12:11

    Gosh I remember these articles greatly inspirational.
    I wish I still had the mags. I'm always hopeful of finding someone who no longer wants their copies of Miniature Warfare
    Graham

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    1. Mark Dudley16 November 2017 at 11:27

      You dont see them come up for sale very often. In fact I dont remember them every coming up for sale.

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  4. Vintage Wargaming14 November 2017 at 18:30

    mark, of course there was also a similar series of 8 articles by Harold Gerry about the French Invasion of Britain in 1810, published in Wargamer's Newsletter in 1970 and 1971.

    These are all posted up on Vintage Wargaming here:

    http://vintagewargaming.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Author%20-%20Harold%20Gerry

    Another famous and inspirational set of articles in Miniature Warfare was John Tunstill's ACW Campaign using a map of Ireland. I posted four of them a long time ago on Vintage Wargaming - you will find them here:

    http://vintagewargaming.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=acw+campaign+in+ireland

    but it looks like I never got round to scanning and posting the rest so I should try to dig the magazines out, if there is an interest.

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  5. Mel15 November 2017 at 08:03

    Vintage wargamimg yes please

    Mark

    The folks on the toofalardies group are interested in this. Might see some Sharp Practice/General d'Armee replays

    I know I am going to give it a go.

    Cheers

    Mel

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