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Battle of Waterloo 2020 Wargame Replay

 Battle of Waterloo 2020 Wargame Replay  Here's a video describing the wargame re-encatment in exciting extensive play-by-play detail    Here's brief rundown of the battle. Wargame used was the classic boardgame /counters /dice designed, 'Wellington's Victory', which came out almost half a century ago :0 The two popular first two editions were from SPI and then TSR, a recent 3rd edition failed to meet expectations for a well honed remake of the game. The wargame map is quite huge - a composite of 4 maps needed for the full scale battle scenario. The actual battle was fought June 18th, 1815, along a range of gentle-sloped hills. Three armies were involved. Napoleon's French army had invaded Belgium a few days earlier with the intent to split apart and either destroy, rout, or drive back one or both of two of the European 7th Coalition's Allied armies (the Army of the Low Countries led by the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine command...

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