Waterloo on a 5ft x 3ft table

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egzt4QAtGM8

Don't really understand the period but looks a bit cluttered to me

Lovely looking game though

I'd take it 

Quote from: getagrip on 10 February 2015, 08:39:58 AM
Lovely looking game though

Agreed !! 

Sadly.....I have to show my total ignorance again......But were the flags really as massive as they appear ?
Cheers - Phil.

From a quick squint at a Sharpie episode yeah they were.

"looks a bit cluttered to me" well it is Waterloo one of the biggest battles of the period.

The ruleset takes bathtubbing to the max, each base isnt a battalion, its a friggin brigade.

Rules available here dbnwargaming.co.uk its a standalone set based very closely on DBA, mine are in the post at the moment, looking forward to a rattling good read.

Quote from: Techno on 10 February 2015, 10:07:42 AM
Agreed !! 

Sadly.....I have to show my total ignorance again......But were the flags really as massive as they appear ?
Cheers - Phil.

Probably, Phil. This is from the film.



As for being cluttered, the infantry were packed shoulder to shoulder to maximise their firepower. Possibly the units should have larger gaps between them, but for the DBx series of rules a coherent battle-line is highly desirable.

They're marching in Russian!

Lovely looking table and armies, I can see the attraction of it all.

nice little setup

That set up is crying out for a smaller scale figure.

Quote from: Leman on 11 February 2015, 09:47:49 AM
That set up is crying out for a smaller scale figure.

Agree completely!

One volunteer wanted to repaint them all in 10mm? 

Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 February 2015, 11:27:14 AM
One volunteer wanted to repaint them all in 10mm? 

Wouldn't even know where to start; you Napoleonic boys even get twitchy about the wrong shaped hat

Only some of us.

Others like me dont really care all that much, a guy on foot wearing a red coat must be British Line, iffen hes wearing a Blue coat then hes a Crapaud Froggy. Or as I prefer to call them Garlic Eating Surrender Monkies.

I always thought the expression was cheese eating surrender monkeys. However as it is based only on the events of 1940 it does seem a trifle over the top compared with the previous thousand years of French history. Don't forget there were some very influential British people who were prepared to do a deal with Hitler in 1940. Glass houses etc.

Given that the cost of that particular war was no less than the loss of "the Empire on which the sun never sets" perhaps these people were the sane ones.

I seem to recall the Secretary to the British Chiefs of Staff in April 1940 noting in his diary, apropos the British disinclination to bring conscription into law, that the Brits were ready to fight to the death of the last Frenchman.

For any who are interested here's the playsheet



So looks like the French have a big advantage when in attack column (especially if you shove an Old Guard unit in the front a big +5)