Tabletop Time

IT has been more than two months since I crossed swords over the tabletop with my regular wargaming opponent, and we are both itching to renew our (friendly) rivalry.

The first thought that came to mind was that we should get back to our aborted 54mm toy-soldier refight of the Franco-Prussian War, using my version of Bob Cordery's Portable Wargame rules.

I write "aborted," but to be fair we did not so much call it off as were thwarted by covid.

We only managed a trial battle, and a refight of Wissembourg/Weissenburg, albeit enjoying both greatly.

I created a grid for those battles, laboriously using green beads designed for little girls to make bracelets.

But since then I have bought Hexon II 100mm hexes, and it should be fun using them with toy soldiers.

However, this month - tomorrow, to be precise - sees the 210th anniversary of Waterloo, so we have decided to use the opportunity to refight that most famous battle.

More details follow