The Great Game: Waterloo Replayed Charity Event

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I’m sure this will be of interest for our Napoleonic players.  It is completely nuts and awesome at the same time.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_650397_en.html?fbclid=IwAR2I_cQD0oqGcb5XZe0jn0FyqQWRuRcFcAfu3eu1HVoc3EWhT_nu2HYnTr4

[brennonKeymaster 31892xp 1]

If any community members are going to this we’d be very interested in seeing images and video from the event if you’re willing to do so!

[limburger 21856xp 0]

That is insane …

I don’t care about the era, but I do appreciate the effort that must have gone into building & painting the required armies and terrain.

I really hope nothing bad happens to this collection/wargame.

[fogh 7155xp 0]

Really looking forward to hearing how it all goes. I believe they are using Black Powder rules from Warlord Games for the battle.  22,000 x 28mm Napoleonic figures will look awesome.

[Anonymous 0xp 1]

Set up of the hall from @flagsofwar on Facebook

 

Looks amazing!

[Anonymous 0xp 1]

Jusr read a twit from the organisers – £15,000 raised for charity on top of raising awareness for the charity.  Well done to all.

[phaidknott 7031xp 0]

Not a lot of news coverage here in England on this, hopefully the news programs in Scotland did cover it. Seems a shame such an event went by largely un-noticed outside of the Wargaming Hobby networks

[riley-keithParticipant 114xp 1]

I have to agree, someone shared a BBC news link but I have not seen many photos to show the scale of it. I assumes WSS/WI will cover it in an issue ?

[Anonymous 0xp 0]

WSS covered it on their social media, there were quite a few videos of it, so I would assume there will be an article coming up as well.

[Anonymous 0xp 0]

@phaidknott and @riley-keith not news coverage of the game but news coverage of the work the charity the game supported on Sky.

https://news.sky.com/story/veterans-join-dig-at-site-of-wellingtons-field-hospital-on-battlefield-of-waterloo-11761736

[Anonymous 0xp 0]

More on Sky News

https://news.sky.com/story/we-cant-save-our-past-comrades-but-we-can-help-their-veteran-descendants-11761734?fbclid=IwAR1av1Mb4uMdldUZkAR4Jdpu4iWqnlmD3JdVwjiMDiFvNli3BvyUUaD5dGc

[Anonymous 0xp 0]

And now the BBC.  Great to see this get coverage and make people more aware of the issues that soldiers are suffering with.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-48967672/waterloo-battlefield-therapy-for-british-war-veterans

This was some of their coverage of the game as well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-48639233/mini-armies-gather-for-massive-waterloo-war-game

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