I HAVE decided to refight the 20 scenarios from Mike Lambo's solo wargaming book Battles Of Napoleonic Europe ... but with a twist.
This time, instead of using the maps and counters supplied in the book, I plan to refight the scenarios with 10mm model soldiers on a hex grid laid on top of one of my wargaming tables.
Lambo's maps use a grid that is 10 hexes wide and eight or nine hexes deep, as shown in the following image.
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Map for the book's first scenario, in which the player commands Anglo-Portuguese forces advancing from the bottom of the map |
My first task was to recreate the basic grid, and I have done this with textured hexes, a system known as Hexon II, from Nottinghamshire-based Kallistra.
The hexes measure 100mm (3.9in) across, and I chose ones coloured to give a grass-and-earth effect.
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Here is my first order, straight out of the box and upside down, but showing how they come in groups of six |
I got my order hopelessly wrong in that I ordered far too many sixers, and anyway could not make the required grid with them alone.
So I had to order some individual hexes to complete the exact grid, which I felt was worth it, although I could have easily put together enough sixers to make the grid and simply ruled that certain hexes were out of bounds.
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The finished grid (the hexes are held together by out-of-sight clips) with Lambo's book alongside |
To be continued