Yeah, but if you COULD?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Mars-la-Tours

Two Prussain Corps stopping the French army dead in its tracks!
Infantry fighting through villages and woods, artillery lines, the
Last great  cavalry on cavalry actions, but most importantly...

Von Bredlow's Death Ride!

[getagrip]

Using 1:600 scale figures you'd only need a table 3km long for Market Garden

Yeah, that's do-able.

Might need to win Euromillions too.  

[getagrip]

Mars-la-Tours

Two Prussain Corps stopping the French army dead in its tracks!
Infantry fighting through villages and woods, artillery lines, the
Last great  cavalry on cavalry actions, but most importantly...

Von Bredlow's Death Ride!

Cheers.  How many troops on each side?

[Fenton]

Von Bredlow's Death Ride!

The only bad bit about it was that after it  generals thought cavalry still had a place on the modern battlefield

[fsn]

Using 1:600 scale figures you'd only need a table 3km long for Market Garden

Oh! Can't I have Pendraken and a 12km long table?  

Actually, we have a bridge here in Runcorn that perhaps means we could do at least a bit of it in 1:1

[Roy]

which battle would you want to create at 1:1?

Honestly? I really wouldn't.

But that's just me. I don't like big battles.

Maybe the Battle of the Denmark Strait.

That would be very cool.

Actually, come to think on it - I'd pay an expert to paint, rig and 'flag' a very large amount of Rod Langton 1:1200 'Nap' naval models - Aboukir Bay. 1st Copenhagen. Kamperduin. If I looked outside of the Second Coalition, then maybe the Trafalgar Campaign.

[getagrip]

Actually, come to think on it - I'd pay an expert to paint, rig and 'flag' a very large amount of Rod Langton 1:1200 'Nap' naval models - Aboukir Bay. 1st Copenhagen. Kamperduin. If I looked outside of the Second Coalition, then maybe the Trafalgar Campaign.

Why that one Roy?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cheers.  How many troops on each side?

Prussians 2 Corps and two cavalry divisions c20000
French, 5 corps and six cavalry divisions c100000 men!

[Roy]

Why that one Roy?

Because I like little model boats.

If I had to pick one it would be Aboukir Bay, aka The Battle of the Nile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nile

Nelson and his Band of Brothers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%27s_Band_of_Brothers

Nelson's man-management of his Captains before the battle. The 'fluid' tactics that he used, as opposed to the classic, static, linear ship battle.

The French flagship L'Orient blowing up in the darkness, the blast being seen and heard miles away.


"The Blowing up of the French Commander's Ship "L'Orient" at the Battle of the Nile, 1798, painting by John Thomas Serres"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ship_Orient_(1791)

[getagrip]

I love sailing ships but CANNOT begin ANOTHER genre/period/scale.

Would look good on a massive table though.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The boy stood on the burning deck....

[getagrip]

Playing a game of cricket...

[Leman]

Well, this is a very useful thread proving once again that one man's meat etc.  Moving on .......

[fsn]

The ball flew down his trouser leg ...

[Fenton]

But was lucky just to snick it