News
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Additions for the re-vamped Waterloo Game
Dave Docherty has recently come back into the fold of historical Wargaming, he has taken his time and come back with something of a bang.
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Fuentes D’Onoro 1811, refought 06-05-11 to 08-05-11.
This weekend was to be our second foray into the Spanish peninsular! The French and the Allies were decided, the tactics discussed and the tiles laid out!
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Battle of Blenheim
The Battle of Blenheim was our first Marlburian re-play at the Wargames Holiday Centre. I was quite excited at the prospect.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville 1863
The Battle of Chancellorsville 1863, possibly Lee’s greatest triumph, dividing his force not once, but twice in the face of the enemy.
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Salute 2011
Well the visit to Salute went extremely well, I met a lot of potential visitors to the Centre and got to help promote the “project Hougomont” guys with a couple of tickets for the Wargames Holiday Centre, which was run on a private auction at the stand.
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Dresden 1813, refought on 8th-10th April 2011
Dresden 1813, the only battle won during 1813 by the French. Here was a chance for the Allies to change the course of history
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The Battle of Eylau (1807) re-played on 1st April 2011.
The real battle was fought in freezing conditions with a blinding snowstorm impairing the senses of all that took part in it.
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The Battle of Salamanca day 2 of the weekend
Well the second day of Salamanca has concluded with a very grisly and bloody draw! Over to the far west of the Allied line the French Light cavalry division managed a sweeping outflank manoeuvre,
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Salamanca 25th March 2011
So the first day at Salamanca has been a success for the British, the French began their day historically with three divisions strung out on front of the ridge to the east of the Lesser Arapile.
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More to it for 1940.
Play testing the Flames of War proved to be a breeze, we made some amendments along the way. We decided that the aircraft needed a little something
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France 1940, a test of faith
I have just got back from the Wargames Holiday Centres play test for our WWII collection. We have a weekend for France 1940 coming up in June and needed to get to grips with our spin on the Flames of War rules.
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The Marlborough Period
Recently at the Wargames Holiday Centre we’ve been working on our Marlburian period rules. These have been around for over twenty years and were drafted by my good friend Mike Ingham. Mike had a keen interest in the wars around this time in history and as a result decided to add this to the Wargames
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