Thursday 20 October 2022

Let's Fight Leipzig!


Following on from my Seelow Heights scenario book, published a couple of years ago, I have decided to go back to one of my first loves in wargaming - Napoleonic.

Always a big fan of large scale battles, especially re-fights of historical actions, I thought that a Napoleonic scenario book would be fun and interesting to do. I took the title from Peter Gilder's articles in Miniature Wargames 4 and 5 (all the way back in 1983!) and it is, I suppose, a kind of homage to him and everything he did for the hobby.

The book itself is very similar in style to my Seelow Heights volume, with a dozen scenarios featuring attractively drawn maps and detailed orders of battle. There is a little background information as well, although I have cut this back compared to Seelow as it is very easy to find detailed material on this battle from such authors as Nafziger and Hofschroer amongst others. I have also included a large number of colour photos of troops in action; below are three of the working snaps I took, prior to having the actual shots taken by a professional who knows what he is doing! I must admit they look pretty nice.

Publication should be around the end of November.







I will let everyone know when it is available, mainly on various Facebook pages and wargaming forums or you can keep checking back on this blog for the latest updates.


12 comments:

  1. Fantastic your Seelowe Heights book was great 👍

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  2. I will definitely buy a copy!

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  3. Cheers Brent - I will definitely sell you one!! Please keep an eye on the blog for pre-publication updates.

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  4. Steve, looking forward to it. I remember the PG article - very inspiring at the time.

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    1. It certainly inspired me. Been a big game fan ever since!

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  5. Thanks for that. Shouldn't be too long now.

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  6. Just received my copy over in New Zealand, looking foward to readiing, thanks Steve! :)

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