A skirmish near the Berezina in 1812, played last Sunday at LudOcean games festival in Clohars-Carnoët / Kloar-Karnoed (Brittany). There were many very different gaming activities in all parts of the village, we had the privilege to play in the city hall.
There was a GM and six players (three on each side). Ruleset: Argad Napoleonic extension. The retreating French had to cross the table. The small stream in the middle was not the Berezina but another river.
...And some players had different, secret, informations. One of the French was escorting Napoleon disguised as an officer (this explains the large number of elite Guard units on the French right). Another French player (me!) leading a large group of half-frozen soldiers wanted to get off table with a French female comedian of the Moscow theatre. On the Russian side, one officer wanted to catch this comedian because a member of the Tsar family loved her. Another one wanted to kill all Frenchmen because his sister had been badly mistreated (the kind of motivations you can read in literary works of this time).
More pictures in these two AARs in French, one written by the GM, the other one by a player ...I'm not sure online translators can handle this well, there's a number of mild slang words for realism.
https://www.anargader.net/t3811-coup-de ... kaia#35282
https://euthanasor-wargamesetmodelisme. ... mpire.html
A skirmish near the Berezina
Re: A skirmish near the Berezina
Well done, Patrice. It's a good looking game.
I don't think that figure with the snowball is taking things seriously...
I don't think that figure with the snowball is taking things seriously...
If "The System" is the answer, who asked such a bloody stupid question?
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I second the aesthetical admiration. Given the size of the snowball, I wonder if it has a large rock, or maybe a small cannonball, in its centre?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Thanks.
Apparently some soldiers on the French side were not taking things seriously, either.
Apparently some soldiers on the French side were not taking things seriously, either.
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It all looks like great fun.
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That's a very Republican-looking hat for an Imperial fanboi.....
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Excellent photos, wargaming at its best, thanks for sharing Patrice.
Willz.
Willz.