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Post by grizzlymc on May 14, 2015 22:20:00 GMT
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Post by captainchook on May 15, 2015 7:34:40 GMT
Cheers for a great report. I like turn by turn reports as they give you a good feeling for the rules. A round games table is somewhat different. I can see this is the dining room table, but there is something to be said for this.
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Post by tim on May 15, 2015 12:26:24 GMT
Great AAR as usual Grizz!
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Post by grizzlymc on May 15, 2015 19:19:57 GMT
Tank ee koindly sors.
Glad tosee someone besides me reads the turn by turn. I do it to help me decipher the notes I write in the margins of the rules. It can be a bit tedious though which is why I write what really happened in the BR.
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Post by grizzlymc on Jul 4, 2015 23:08:27 GMT
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Post by profjohn on Jul 5, 2015 5:00:08 GMT
Very nice. I'm thinking of doing the armies for the earlier British Invasion of Argentina - an interesting side show which has the merit of a pre match warm up en route when they took on the Batavians in South Africa. Baccus Spanish do well for the Argentine forces - where you need militias as well as regulars - and early Prussians look ok for the Batavians.
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Post by tim on Jul 5, 2015 11:26:10 GMT
Love the way you narrate your small but always interesting battles Grizz.
Tim
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Post by grizzlymc on Jul 5, 2015 13:14:14 GMT
I just writeup what happened, it's the little chaps who make up the story.
I have always had a hankering to do Whitelocke's debacle in BA. Tempting and you get to build a Peninsular army.
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Post by bruce on Jul 9, 2015 21:05:25 GMT
Enjoyed the report very much! but you also got me wondering about the war and doing some research on the Chilean war of independence, about which i knew very little. Much thanks, Bruce
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Post by grizzlymc on Jul 10, 2015 14:12:10 GMT
There are a couple of pages of potted history on mmy website. It splits into 2. The Patria Vieja, when the Royalists invaded newly independent Chile and re conquered it had very few pitched battles, but a lot of Petit Guerre. I am thinking of doing that with Sharpe Practice. The Patria Nueva was two campaigns fought by a largely Argentine army, reinforced first with Chilean emigrees then by raising Chilean units after the Liberation of Santiago.
The Argentine General San Martin then took his troops to Peru to take Lima from the Viceroy, starting the Campaigns in Peru (including much of Altiplanic Bolivia) whilst Pacification of the Royalist Enclaves at Valdivia and Chiloe took many years.
It was all very colurful and Napoleonic and you can determine the future of a country with a reinforced brigade.
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