When Napoleonic Button-Counting Goes Wrong...
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:19 pm
I just love a quiz where the quizmaster has the wrong answers...
Last year my mate Paddy sent me a link to a Napoleonic wargaming advent calendar quiz, where each day a picture of a painted figure was shown and you had to identify the regiment. All well and good, except there were many instances where the figure could be any one of a number of regiments (British infantry with green facings and no lace detail shown, Spanish infantry with purple facings and not enough detail to see placement of facing colours, etc,). It was deeply shit and whoever won it could only have done so by accident.
Well he's back again this year, except this time it's flags... https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=oq5wo ... ddnxwm0krs
For some he wants the specific regiment and for others he just wants the nation. He specifies what he wants and gives 'clues' on his Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NapoleonicWargaming
Once again, in some cases there could be several correct answers for the same picture. e.g. He shows the Russian St Petersburg Inspection flag, which was used by several regiments. Today's flag is the reverse side of a Neapolitan regimental flag which was the same pattern for all regiments in the army - the regimental title being on the obverse, which he hasn't shown!
In another case he says that the same pattern of flag was used by all regiments in the army, so he just wants the nation (Portugal), except the picture has 'REGIMENTO No.19' in the middle of the flag, which should have been something of a clue to say that regimental flags for that nation were different enough to tell one from another!
And he also shows a 'flag' which isn't a flag at all - it's the central heraldic motif from the flags of the Kingdom of Italy.
Last year my mate Paddy sent me a link to a Napoleonic wargaming advent calendar quiz, where each day a picture of a painted figure was shown and you had to identify the regiment. All well and good, except there were many instances where the figure could be any one of a number of regiments (British infantry with green facings and no lace detail shown, Spanish infantry with purple facings and not enough detail to see placement of facing colours, etc,). It was deeply shit and whoever won it could only have done so by accident.
Well he's back again this year, except this time it's flags... https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=oq5wo ... ddnxwm0krs
For some he wants the specific regiment and for others he just wants the nation. He specifies what he wants and gives 'clues' on his Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NapoleonicWargaming
Once again, in some cases there could be several correct answers for the same picture. e.g. He shows the Russian St Petersburg Inspection flag, which was used by several regiments. Today's flag is the reverse side of a Neapolitan regimental flag which was the same pattern for all regiments in the army - the regimental title being on the obverse, which he hasn't shown!
In another case he says that the same pattern of flag was used by all regiments in the army, so he just wants the nation (Portugal), except the picture has 'REGIMENTO No.19' in the middle of the flag, which should have been something of a clue to say that regimental flags for that nation were different enough to tell one from another!
And he also shows a 'flag' which isn't a flag at all - it's the central heraldic motif from the flags of the Kingdom of Italy.
