tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post4939870147341662065..comments2024-03-24T19:50:13.945+01:00Comments on napoleonic wargaming: Wellington loses first battle of Valladolid Campaignthistlebarrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00077298970769942656noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post-28306301363404505372011-10-13T18:17:43.796+02:002011-10-13T18:17:43.796+02:00Hi Dodge
I have sent you an email.
It would be i...Hi Dodge<br /><br />I have sent you an email.<br /><br />It would be interesting to make contact with another wargamer here in Spain.<br /><br />regards<br /><br />Paulthistlebarrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077298970769942656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post-56724582857058947602011-10-12T16:14:05.376+02:002011-10-12T16:14:05.376+02:00Hi
Are you still into wargaming and living on the...Hi<br /><br />Are you still into wargaming and living on the Costa Blanca Spain.<br /><br />I am just putting together a French and British Army.<br />Would be good to hear from you<br /><br />Contact dodgespain@gmail.comDodge Spainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15885201607143395023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post-50111867816295903952010-11-02T11:03:25.521+01:002010-11-02T11:03:25.521+01:00Hi JWH
You are quite right we did use "In th...Hi JWH<br /><br />You are quite right we did use "In the Grand Manner" for many years. We used them every week, and after a month or so started to encounter problems. We started to amend them, but each change led to more problems. Eventually we converted them to a set of "house rules", which we used for about ten years.<br /><br />Looking back now I suspect we would have been happier accepting the few anolomies we found and kept with the original rules!<br /><br />I think that they are an excellent set of rules, particularly for the large battles with huge armies which Peter wrote them for.<br /><br />The biggest problem I found with them, at the time, was trying to fight multi corps games. Peter himself never really tried to recreate actual order of battles. He simply had a collection of large battalions. Nothing wrote there, but I only had a 12 x 6 foot wargames table and wanted to fight with four or five corps per side. <br /><br />Now I would consider this problem minor, but then I was at that stage where I wanted to follow actual orders of battle, and the rules were not designed for that.<br /><br />Interesting that you remember "My Way" in MW. That was my fist attempt to write an article on wargaming. I got some negative feedback and it put me off completely. I vowed I would never write an article for publication again!<br /><br />I am much more thick skinned these days, particularly after a few skirmishes on various forum. But I am still careful what I post on a general forum.<br /><br />I think about the blog as being like a diary, and tend to write what I feel without worrying too much about how it is received. So far it works. And if I ever did receive offensive posts I would now just delete them - rather than try to argue. <br /><br />Thanks for your comment, always nice to receive feedback.<br /><br />regards<br /><br />Paulthistlebarrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077298970769942656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post-89711657009970778742010-11-01T21:22:27.043+01:002010-11-01T21:22:27.043+01:00You used 'In the Grand Manner' for a long ...You used 'In the Grand Manner' for a long time didn't you (when you wrote 'My Way' for MW)? Looking back, how do you feel about those rules now?<br /><br />RegardsJWHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637785437909299947noreply@blogger.com