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Author Topic: Project Quatre Bras, or "Wait, are you guys serious?!"  (Read 7784 times)

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on: January 31, 2021, 12:57:36 PM
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/project-quatre-bras-or-ten-ways-to-four-arms/

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Beginning this weekend, the crew from Saturday Night Fights and Wednesday Night Warfare have embarked on a bit of quest.  Approaching four years ago now, the last building left on the field from the Battle of Quatre Bras was razed.  Despite years of effort to try and preserve it, the demands of development prevailed and the last structural witness of the events of June 1815 were taken away.  All that remains are a few monuments and markers that seem strangely out of place and even a bit lost on a field devoid of structural context.

The irony is that, just a few miles to the north, the field of Waterloo remains one of the best preserved battlefields in the entire Napoleonic canon.  I have written here that I think Eggmuhl is the “purest” battlefield I have visited, but Waterloo is positively curated.  The recently-finished museum and visitors area to the side — and the weird ridge-killing Lion’s Mound excepted — the grounds and buildings of Waterloo are almost absurdly well preserved.  The story of why the field of Quatre Bras did not receive the same attention and affection is a long one, well-remembered in summary fashion here:

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Reply #1 on: June 23, 2021, 09:29:27 AM

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Reply #2 on: June 23, 2021, 03:15:27 PM
There is an error in the caption of the last picture of Project: Quatre Bras II AAR.
It should say "... far better outcome for the Allies." I know because I was the Allies and won that game.  8)

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Reply #3 on: June 23, 2021, 03:17:44 PM
There is an error in the caption of the last picture of Project: Quatre Bras II AAR.
It should say "... far better outcome for the Allies." I know because I was the Allies and won that game.  8)

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Reply #4 on: June 23, 2021, 05:34:03 PM
Napoleon’s Last Battles in Tabletop Simulator. No fear of a camera falling into the map!  ;D

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Reply #5 on: June 30, 2021, 10:18:48 AM

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Reply #6 on: June 30, 2021, 11:23:34 AM
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How Many Players?:  Two.

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Reply #7 on: June 30, 2021, 12:34:01 PM
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How Many Players?:  Two.

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Reply #8 on: August 23, 2024, 10:48:06 AM
Project: Quatre Bras VIII AAR
Game? Campaign Waterloo from WDS

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What, you thought I was done? No, just delayed. Many months and reasons have passed between the last iteration of this project and now, but they are all of little consequence.

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Reply #9 on: August 31, 2024, 11:24:03 AM
Project: Quatre Bras IX AAR
The Ruleset: Valour and Fortitude (VAF) from Friend of the Dragoons Jervis Johnson

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A team from the Dragoons was involved from an early stage in the development of VAF. A bunch of us even show up in the credits of the printed version.

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Reply #10 on: September 11, 2024, 11:57:29 AM
Project: Quatre Bras X AAR - General d’Armee 2
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Its prose is cleaner, its organization is tightened up, and the most grievous sequences in the rules are dramatically stripped down...  I have found it sleek and best-in-class.

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/aars/pqbxaar/


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