Wargaming the Battle of Waterloo
Charles Esdaile joins me to discuss his latest research on what happens if you try to wargame the Battle of Waterloo on a boardgame, and we discuss about why boardgame designers want the allies to lose at Waterloo...
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though I wasn't fond of a wargaming month of the Napoleonicist - it was very enjoyable to listen to this podcast again and listening to Professor Emeritus Charles Esdailes point of view about Belle Alliance - where in fact a agree with almost everything, apart that Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte were of no matter, in my view they were channeling the French attacks on only two possible approaches head on with Wellington's center, he prevented the manoeuvering of Boney.
Got to play a very nice 15mm miniatures battle of Waterloo at Historicon 2024. The game master did a superb job on the gameboard
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