My military history class has moved on from the American War for Independence to the wars of Napoleon. The way I structure our case studies, I show the students a period film (in this case, Waterloo), we do secondary readings (some of them excerpts from Atkins' Waterloo Companion), then we play a simulation game while the students write a mini-research essay critiquing some aspect of the film. Today, we began our scaled down version of Waterloo with my 28's. The buildings may look like Spanish, but don't be fooled. I razed Le Haye Sainte and Hougumont, as I don't want to have to deal with fortification rules with novice players. The rules themselves are a slightly modified Black Powder. Since they are the same rules as we used for the AWI, the kids were ready to run once they learned how to form square.
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| Team France. Or "Team Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" if you prefer |
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Team Sharpe Britain. No Brunswickers of Dutch-Belgians in sight, and heavens knows when the Prussians will arrive. |
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| The ritual smack-talking |
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| Riding through fur is fun! |
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"Sir, we're the Old Guard! Should we be leading the attack?"
"Silence, Private. We're a diversion. Or something." |
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| Heavy cavalry apparently prefer the just-out-of-focus look. |
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| The column prepares to move. Let's blame the soft focus on battlefield haze and artillery smoke. |
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| "Hold the line, you blackguards! You scum! you villains!...Oh, I say! Did my top hat always have a hole just there?" |
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