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Title: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Chris Pringle on 04 September 2015, 02:36:49 PM
Not a show exactly, but a display/participation game in a military museum.

Saturday 24 October 2015
Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO), Woodstock, Oxon UK

Oxford Wargames Society will be running a display/participation game of the battle of Waterloo. We have cunningly avoided the actual anniversary by a few months so as to avoid clashing with everyone else's anniversary games. Official listing is on the SOFO website:
http://www.sofo.org.uk/whatson.php

If any forum members are in range and have the time and inclination to drop by, it would be great to meet you.

Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Chris Pringle on 24 September 2015, 12:22:56 PM
One month to go until the Waterloo event at SOFO.

First playtest of the Waterloo game was very satisfactory.

I also made a fun map which shows how the Waterloo campaign fits nicely onto the county of Oxfordshire. Imagine Napoleon invading from Swindon and Reading towards Brussels aka Banbury. Oxford is the Quatre Bras crossroads where Ney is stalled. Napoleon hits the Prussians at Wheatley (Ligny), trying to drive them back along their supply line to High Wycombe (Namur), but instead they fall back northwards upon Bicester (Wavre). The Anglo-Dutch forces scattered around Cheltenham and Stow-on-the-Wold join those retreating from Quatre Bras and unite at Woodstock (Waterloo).

I put a draft of the map on Flickr.
https://flic.kr/p/yJUdiy (https://flic.kr/p/yJUdiy)

Chris
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Chris Pringle on 13 October 2015, 09:08:03 PM
Just over a week until the Waterloo event at SOFO.

Chris
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Last Hussar on 13 October 2015, 11:06:47 PM
I'm in Cardiff.

Bugger
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: paulr on 13 October 2015, 11:50:39 PM
Quote from: Last Hussar on 13 October 2015, 11:06:47 PM
I'm in Cardiff.

Bugger

You think you have problems ;)
I'm closer than usual and I'm in Manila ;D
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: fsn on 14 October 2015, 07:05:12 AM
Quote from: Last Hussar on 13 October 2015, 11:06:47 PM
I'm in Cardiff.

Bugger
A common sentiment.
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 14 October 2015, 07:58:33 AM
Even Wales is better than Runcorn. It's so bad they have closed all the access roads.

IanS
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Chris Pringle on 26 October 2015, 02:09:28 PM
Well that was fun. AAR here:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/waterloo-200-display-game-at-sofo.html

:)

Chris
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Ithoriel on 26 October 2015, 04:03:43 PM
Beautiful looking game that sounds like it was a blast to play!

Thanks for the AAR.
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 26 October 2015, 05:25:56 PM
Nicely done game! :)
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Westmarcher on 26 October 2015, 06:03:33 PM
Interesting report, Chris.  :-bd
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Techno on 26 October 2015, 06:25:00 PM
Excellent, Chris.
Thanks for the link to that.
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Chris Pringle on 26 October 2015, 11:15:18 PM
Thanks, chaps, glad you liked it. It was a blast for sure. We were some happy wargamers.

Chris
Title: Re: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock: Waterloo wargame, 24 Oct 2015
Post by: Steve J on 27 October 2015, 06:50:45 AM
Looks like a cracking game :).
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