The Great Game: Waterloo Replayed Charity Event

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June 11, 2019 at 3:13 pm #1403482

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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

June 11, 2019 at 4:30 pm #1403525

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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!

June 12, 2019 at 8:09 pm #1403940

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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.

June 13, 2019 at 7:05 am #1404039

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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.

June 15, 2019 at 9:23 am #1404962

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Set up of the hall from @flagsofwar on Facebook

Looks amazing!

July 3, 2019 at 10:28 am #1411068

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

July 3, 2019 at 10:36 am #1411070

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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

July 3, 2019 at 1:50 pm #1411153

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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 ?

July 3, 2019 at 3:33 pm #1411180

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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.

July 13, 2019 at 9:10 am #1414210

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@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

July 14, 2019 at 5:55 pm #1414584

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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

July 15, 2019 at 9:29 am #1414772

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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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