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Glasgow University Refighting Waterloo On A Massive Scale
June 12, 2019 by brennon
Glasgow University is taking wargaming to a new scale with their The Great Game: Waterloo Replayed charity event which is taking place this weekend. 22,000 miniatures will hit the tabletop alongside wargamers, veterans and history enthusiasts as they see about refighting this immense battle which changed the face of Europe.
The map that you see here was laid out across one of the largest halls at Glasgow University and it only just fit into the space! The actual gaming table (192 square metres and made up of 12 sections, each 8 metres by 2 metres) which has been designed by Tiny Wargames Of London will then be hosted in the Kelvin Gallery on campus and play host to 120 participants who will be playing out this clash between Napoleon and Wellington.
As well as all of the miniatures the absolutely huge battlefield will also play host to a range of meticulously crafted buildings and other terrain elements to help simulate the battlefield that they fought on at Waterloo. The layout itself is also based on the 1830s detailed survey of the battlefield of Waterloo by William Siborne.
The game will be running on both Saturday and Sunday between 09.30 to 16.30 and there are still tickets available to view the battle being played out HERE. You can also join in with small participation skirmishes if you like too. There is then an additional ticketed event where you can learn about Waterloo Uncovered at The Hunterian Museum.
This sounds pretty impressive indeed!
"22,000 miniatures will hit the tabletop alongside wargamers, veterans and history enthusiasts..."
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Warterloo…. sound…. QUE MUSIC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4
You know I had to do it!
*ding* *ding* we’ve got a winner :
https://youtu.be/h75dqMXDskM
Looks a lot more dramatic than a a room full of spineless aholes and a box of pens?
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Brussels Parliament.
I only found out about this yesterday, otherwise I would have braved an evening or two in Glasgow to see this. Utterly awesome and completely nuts at the same time. Hope anyone who does attend has a great time.
I can feel the button counters winding up to pronounce their expertise already…
That’s the main reason I don’t play historical games. Well, I do, but I never post anything historical on here.
You arent the only one, I assure you..
just do what I do and ignore them
@cpauls1 there be plenty of button counters in non historicals as well … maybe even more so.
I would imagine it will be as accurate as they can be based on who is running it.
I just hope they publish pictures and an AAR 🙂
What scale are the minis?
28mm I think. Tony Pollard has been on the 6mm Facebook group painting lots of 6mm figures that he suggested was for this refight. They must have decided to change the scale
That looks more classic toy solder scale to me but it could be 28mm.
when they announced it last year they said it was going to be 28mm that was around February
Wonder how they are going to move stuff with the size of layout, RAF style pointers perhaps?
I don’t think that the tables are being laid out like that for the game, sectioned off to make gameplay possible
A few had wondered about it on other sites and facebook, sectioning off would be the only real way to do it. even with optimum table height and your arms we are only talking about reaching comfortably around 4 ft. 28mm figs surprises me, but a lot does these days.
The site mentions this :
“The tables are 80 feet long and 24 feet wide, and are placed with 4 corridors between them also 80 feet long to provide player access.”
At least I assume this means that the total width of the map is 24 feet and there will be 5 80 feet long tables (= 4 corridors) each being about 4-5 feet wide.
I’m massively jealous of those involved in this game. I would’ve loved to have been involved with something like this.
I can imagine there’s going to be some confusion with the amount of players but it would be so fun to be there.