Wargame enthusiast, Mil Sims, History explorer, YT'er & blogger, narrative hack, Dad, plain speaker. [email protected]
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senatus consultum ultimum The rubicon month:
First man In Rome
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Back in august I played @MultiManPub Ukraine '44. Opposed.
I just rewrote the 2 part AAR. - see bigboardgaming.com for that.
BUT.
It inspired a different sort of narrative also . I just finished it.
I was the Soviets. I could see it all slipping away-
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Louis Napoleon often gets treated like a kind of Temu Napoleon Bonaparte.
But he had some pretty cool achievements.
Doubled the size of the French colonial empire.
Made the British genuinely afraid of invasion.
Modernised French industry and agriculture.
Helped win Crimean War against Russia.
Helped win the Italian Wars of Unification against Austria.
Protected the Pope from annexation by the secular Italian state.
Huge building projects in Paris.
His biggest failure was probably conquering and then losing Mexico.
Battle Action #147 (1977–1981). British war comics were grittier, morally complex, and hugely influential. Still sharp. #WarComics #VintageComics #WWII
Philippines Dec 1941:
Battalion Landings, in an umpired double blind game.
I'll be reporting on our progress as the game evolves!
See Substack for reports!
bigboard.substack.com/publis… Back from lovely Nashville. Which is ow offically a young persons town.
Talk about wild. It puts 6th St Austin to shame.
But regardless here is Saturdays Newsletter a few days late.
“On August 20 Rupprecht initiated a bloody assault, which forced Dubail to abandon Sarrebourg and withdraw to the original French lines behind the Meurthe River.”
— World War I The Definitive Encyclopedia, p.171
Race to the Sea @HermannLut73541
