Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

I don't know if you remember this excellent article about the map of BG PTW

http://www.napoleon-series.org/military ... c_ptw.html

by Hans Boersma (I am not sure if Hans is still part of NWC)

Comte Ferraris was the man responsible for mapping most of the region we love to fight on. His finished work is available online here:
http://www.ngi.be/FR/FR1-4-2-3.shtm
(I don't think the site has an option for English). It's easy to navigate. You just need to click on the map you want to look at and the name of the map will appear as a link under Resultats and an new window appears and you can crop to the level you want (incredible details).

The maps covering the battle of Quatre Bras are 79 (right lower corner), 80 (right upper corner) and 96 (left lower corner) and 97 (left upper corner)
If you have a look at the area you will see how beautiful are the maps.
An example here:



We can see that Quatre Bras was called Les Trois Bras and it was a cabaret!

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."
Napoléon Bonaparte

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

Awesome maps David, although the hills remind me a bit of a Rorschach test.

I think I failed.

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

Contemporary maps are frustrating to use as they are more stylized than accurate. But they sure do allow you to find those landmarks that are needed on our maps.

This set from 1777 is nice. Wonder if Charlie or Rich used this set to build the maps in Campaign Waterloo?

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options OFF:

MDF, VP4LC, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.07)

I am wondering too.

I have been studying lately the battlefield and... I don't think they used this map.

For example the stream should stop at Grand Pierrepont:


One set of maps I would like to see are those from De Bas & De Wommersom.

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."
Napoléon Bonaparte

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

Actually, seeing how water is quite unlikely to run along the crest of a hill, I'd say these are hollows rather than hills. But you're sure right about their looks.