Koniggratz 1866

Started by Leman, 24 January 2016, 03:03:14 PM

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toxicpixie

Give him a Corps (or reduce the army to a corps!) and he seems quite happy and not paralysed?

With a bit more time and an effective staff and less Hobbing with the Nobs (and a whole slew of other changes :D) and it could all be different :D

The Prussians get beaten, the militarists ousted, north Germany goes social democrat in small states much like the Scandawegians; the Hapsburgs reclaim some territory and look a bit less shaken. The Franco-Austrian War sees the Empire fracture instead, then clatter back together, sort of, and a First World War eventually breaks out between France and Britain over French interference in the north German statelets when Hanoverian "Black Hand" nationalists bomb the Bavarian crown prince and the French cross the border to retaliate, and stop the Austrians from annexing them.

Or something :D
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cameronian

Quote from: holdfast on 08 June 2017, 08:14:57 PM
Thank goodness someone has got round to reading it. Cameronian has had it for ages but all he seems to do is fondle it.

Its in the pile, first impressions are very good - but I wouldn't expect anything less.
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cameronian

Not sure if I've posted this already, its from TMP, 1860, just before unveiling of statue to AD Charles. Lots to see but can anyone spot any Jaeger officers ?

[url="http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/jp2/1277906258187500.jp2&svc_id=info:lanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:jpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&svc.level=6&svc.rotate=0&svc.region="]http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/jp2/1277906258187500.jp2&svc_id=info:lanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:jpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&svc.level=6&svc.rotate=0&svc.region=[/url]
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cameronian

http://www.soalitomerice.cz/slovnik/slovnik.php?search=&within%5B2%5D=obec_de&obec=0&obec_de=2035&ou92=0&o92=0&o30=0&so30=0&fu=0&p=0&po=0

For anyone trying to marry German with Czech village names, brilliant resource, all but the really tiny hamlets.


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Leman

Quote from: cameronian on 25 July 2017, 04:06:17 PM
Not sure if I've posted this already, its from TMP, 1860, just before unveiling of statue to AD Charles. Lots to see but can anyone spot any Jaeger officers ?

[url="http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/jp2/1277906258187500.jp2&svc_id=info:lanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:jpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&svc.level=6&svc.rotate=0&svc.region="]http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=http://library.brown.edu/adore-djatoka/jp2/1277906258187500.jp2&svc_id=info:lanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:jpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&svc.level=6&svc.rotate=0&svc.region=[/url]
Yes, I enlarged the picture and spotted a couple of them over to the right. The plumes and darker jackets were the giveaway.
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cameronian

Bit like 'Where's Wally' really.
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toxicpixie

"Vere ist Valter?"

Over in Alsace-Lorraine making sure France is forever part of Germany!
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cameronian

Man walks down street in Glasgow, sees man coming towards him carrying long stick ...
'Are you a pole vaulter?'
'No I'm German and how did you know my name iz Valter'.
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*boom~tisch*

Thank you, thank you, he's here all week!

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NOBBY !

Coat time.

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17 October 2017, 02:23:32 PM #101 Last Edit: 17 October 2017, 02:36:28 PM by cameronian
http://mapire.eu/en/map/firstsurvey/?layers=osm%2C1%2C73&bbox=1612247.799351683%2C6537191.022945242%2C1734547.0446079648%2C6590161.883546868

Not sure if this has been put up before, huge and incredibly detailed 18th century map of 'Habsburgia' its possible to zoom right down to villages, very useful for finding out German names of hamlets now named in Czech

19th century

http://mapire.eu/en/map/hkf_75e/?layers=osm%2C8&bbox=1677764.106974012%2C6552431.679275802%2C1685407.8098025296%2C6555742.358063404
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toxicpixie

Yes, that's an excellent site!

I've always had half a mind to see I could scrape the images at a usable scale and get them printed onto a PVC banner for an authentic "map game" experience with BBB :D
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Steve J

Wow, what an amazing amount of detail. Things I noted are:

- In the first map, the hills shown seem to have little semblance to the actual topography of the area. This is based upon looking at Linz and its environs. Mind you given the wooded nature of a lot of the hills, they still give a good guide to the area.

- How the Danube meandered all over the place, with many, many islands in mid-stream. How it has changed with modern drainage etc.