Planning Ahead

Hi

Spotted a likely candidate for a new wargaming project. It ticks off the main boxes for required figures - I already have the figures and they are painted. 

It is a small enough engagement (compared to the Borodino Project), and it's something to aim for October 2022. More details to follow once the Borodino Project is done and dusted.

The OZTGG 21 project: a revised full listing of what needs building but as yet unstarted. Scaled down to fit FoGN game.

• Borodino village - two buildings: one Russian style dwelling and one Russian Orthodox church
• Gorki village - one Russian-style dwelling
• Utitsa village - one Russian-style dwelling
• Semenovskaya village - two Russian-style ruined dwellings
• Raevski's redoubt - large lunette capable of accommodating one full three-gun artillery battery
• Bagration's Fleches: sitting atop two separate mounds
  
• Two lunettes
  
• One redan 
• Shevardino redoubt
  
• Utitsa mound
• Borodino bridge - one intact and one ruined
• Pontoon bridges - quantity 
• Streams and rivers - various lengths
• Roads - various lengths
• Trees - loads

That's the current revised list. Also slated for completion by end of April. Doubt I will get all of these items complete but will tackle the main elements first - the fortifications and the villages.

Borodino Project: Preliminaries to Part Two

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Officially resumed Part Two of my putting together a FoGN solo refight of the Battle of Borodino.

Started work assembling Eugene's 4th Corps but it's slow going. Got Delzons' and Broussier's divisions figures collected and assembled -- sort of. Using the copious spare Russian figures. 

Part Two is the turn of the French and Allies. No particular order in my first choice to kick off this part; I just happened to select Eugene's Corps randomly. I had already completed two other corps - Junot's VIII Corps and Grouchy's III Reserve Cavalry Corps. 

Beggars can't be choosers at times. I have a large volume of Napoleonic figures sitting idly of various other poses that don't fit the perception of how a Napoleonic unit should look. I find that view workable up to a point. And with 20mm plastic figures, I am realising everything has its places. Don't be too surprised if you see an entire regiment of Frenchmen kneeling shooting or about to reload or standing shooting or standing reloading. I mean to use as much of this huge volume of figures as I can.

To date, I've started work on Eugene's IV Corps - assembling both Delzon's and Broussier's Divisions, and the infantry of Lecchi's Italian Royal Guard. Once done, I will look around for the requisite cavalry figures in due course but the priority at the moment is to complete the infantry.

Cheers.

Greetings from a solo wargamer

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Starting up this blog site to continue pursuing my lifelong passion for solo historical wargaming and historical wargaming interests in general. I hope to migrate over here in full depending on how this site pans out. This first post is mostly a writing post covering introduction and interests.

Thought for the day

I was watching an animated movie last night. It was an interesting variation of an old English language fairy tale. What made it interesting viewing was noticing creators of this animation (Korean production team) were borrowing and rethreading the tale using so many contemporary themes and ideas. And I began mentally naming as many of those themes and concepts as appeared. That action seemed to colour my overall appreciation of this rework because I ending judging it by what I saw as a rehashing of something familiar into something entirely hash.

That idea of seeing something familiar redone in different garb seems common these days with wargaming. What you see is not always something new or different, merely a reworking of something old and done already. So, what's the appeal? A momentary distraction? A titillation?