Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[fsn]

An excellent display.

Thank you. I'm looking forward to getting it finished.

If I were a French Marshal I'd be nervous.
Unless I was Ney, who didn't appear to do nerves.

There were a few like that, weren't there? Murat strikes me as a mad son of a thousand fathers (yes I know he wasn't at Waterloo.)

 

[paulr]

 



The troops stand out very well against a blue background

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Is a "curricle" a wagon for transporting spicy food? 

You utter Oik !

[fsn]

 

I'll take that.

[T13A]

Hi

Regarding artillery, in Mark Adkin's 'The Waterloo Companion' there is an excellent diagram/map showing the deployment of the French grand battery (of around 80 guns if memory serves) showing every gun, limber, 1st, 2nd and 3rd line caissons and 'specialist' wagons (forges, spare carriages, spare wheels etc.). How any of d'Erlon's divisions managed to move through that lot is beyond me, in fact I read a book (I think it was Andrew Field's 'Waterloo, The French Perspective') that has at least two of d'Erlon's divisions marching completely around the eastern end of the grand battery before deploying rather than moving through the deployed batteries.

Cheers Paul

[fsn]

Adkin's book is a wonderful volume.





Of course on page 46 it shows 1st Brit Cav brigade with two 1st Life Guards as opposed to one 1st Life Guards and one 1st Dragoon Guards.

[fsn]

If I may channel my internal Valley Girl:

OMG!

OMG!

O
M
G
!



5 ... Like 5 Pendraken Orders are on their way to me! Ijustcan'tbelieve it. Thisisthegreatestdayever! OMG! OMG! I'msoexcitedIjustweed.



In a more serious vein: you have to admire Pendraken for getting orders out in the middle of of a move.

Thank you.

[Matt J]

In other news Russia is about to invade Ukraine with columns of T34's... (according to BBC news pics anyway)

[Steve J]

I wondered about that pic when I saw it :-.

[steve_holmes_11]

Hi

Regarding artillery, in Mark Adkin's 'The Waterloo Companion' there is an excellent diagram/map showing the deployment of the French grand battery (of around 80 guns if memory serves) showing every gun, limber, 1st, 2nd and 3rd line caissons and 'specialist' wagons (forges, spare carriages, spare wheels etc.). How any of d'Erlon's divisions managed to move through that lot is beyond me, in fact I read a book (I think it was Andrew Field's 'Waterloo, The French Perspective') that has at least two of d'Erlon's divisions marching completely around the eastern end of the grand battery before deploying rather than moving through the deployed batteries.

Cheers Paul

Things like this convinced me that a lot of the "old style" Horse and Musket rules - with their rigid interpretations of base dimensions and strict formations - were simply wrong.

It didn't help that my armies often ended up in a traffic jam resembling Piccadilly Circus at rush hour.

[hammurabi70]

Things like this convinced me that a lot of the "old style" Horse and Musket rules - with their rigid interpretations of base dimensions and strict formations - were simply wrong.

It didn't help that my armies often ended up in a traffic jam resembling Piccadilly Circus at rush hour.

And where are all the supply wagons in all this?  Where were they left?  As I recall it, in Kriegsspiel the train of a brigade took up twice as much space as the deployed units and would be needed for ammunition resupply?  How far back would they be if the artillery limbers were so close?

[Techno II]

Well, Huzzah !

Radio 4 extra is back up and running. (Since 6, this morning.)



Cheers - Phil 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I know, was thinking it might not reappear. Time signal then music and Dr Morrel appears. 

[Techno II]

I'm right back on form, regarding self mutilation.

My poor left thumb....Don't know quite how I managed it*, but I've caught it twice in the same place recently.....On the back, below the knuckle......Blood all over the place !!

(Trying to do things too quickly, probably. )

Cheers - A Twit.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You could bottle and sell it as a native cure.....

[Techno II]

It might have Covid antibodies in it, Ian. Grand idea !

I nearly took a piccy of four sheets of bright red kitchen towel, and sent it to Nobby...... with the heading "Ooops !"

Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You'd done that and the local mounties would have been around, sending biologicals through the mail. Mind you they would'nt have arrested you - all Welsh police forces are known as Gurkhas - take no prisoners, do it all by warrent ! 

[DecemDave]

I'm right back on form, regarding self mutilation.

My poor left thumb....Don't know quite how I managed it*, but I've caught it twice in the same place recently.....On the back, below the knuckle......Blood all over the place !!-[

  Hazard of the hobby.  Managed to push a scalpel right into my thumb last week cleaning up a mold line.  now have one of those ages to heal pencil cut type things which is more irritating than when it happened.

[flamingpig0]

Well, Huzzah !

Radio 4 extra is back up and running. (Since 6, this morning.)



Cheers - Phil 

Apocalypse averted

https://www.businessinsider.com/bbc-radio-show-may-be-preventing-nuclear-apocalypse-2018-8?r=US&IR=T

[Techno II]

I think I've realised how I managed to do 'my cut'......Air drumming along with Carl Palmer, with a brand new 10A blade attached to the handle.

AND I've had to switch the stereo back down to between a half and ONE.....'Cos the 'main' kitchen was vibrating.

Oh.....how I want to wind it up, so they could hear it in the village....a mile or more away.

Cheers - Phil.