Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

but do not want to spend more than a couple hundred $ - anyone know where I might get a quality reproductions?

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2nd Lt

23rd Light Dragoons, 3rd Brigade, Cav Division, II corps (British/KGL)

Steve,

Here's a link to Roman Army Talk. A forum for ancients, but they talk reenactment all the time. I bet someone knows a dealer.

http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/

Just out of curiosity: what do you want to do with it?
(display, reenactment or ???)

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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

display, home defense, abusing melons, surviving the zombie apocalypse

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2nd Lt

23rd Light Dragoons, 3rd Brigade, Cav Division, II corps (British/KGL)

Scott Ludwig's your man for the latter events. Zombies always showing up at his house. You might consider a two handed Damascus steel blade in that case! Some of those suckers are BIG!

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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)

To find a good replica that you can use you may have to go over $200.00

There is a good forum http://www.swordforum.com/forums/forum.php where you may be able to get some answer. I am member of that forum and more particularly the Historical European Swordsmanship section which is more focused on medieval and renaissance fencing but you may find some good references on serious sellers.

See also this one for example: http://therionarms.com/reenact/therionarms_c342.html

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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

Museum Replicas has a variety of swords including sabers.
http://www.museumreplicas.com/c-19-one-handed-swords.aspx

No Napoleonic weapons however, their selection isn't what it used to be. They used to have Cossack shasquas, etc.


For home defense your best bet is probably a shorter weapon with a knucklebow or
basket hilt, like this (only $140):
http://www.museumreplicas.com/p-1287-british-cutlass-bayonet.aspx
although it doesn't look well balanced for cutting attacks. An actual cutlass / falchion / schiavone might be better.

I think this site is owned by the same company, but the selection is somewhat different and the prices are better
http://www.atlantacutlery.com/


Napoleonic weaponry (more expensive)
http://www.militaryheritage.com/swords1.htm



Est ist hier wie in den alten zeiten wo die klinge noch alles that bedeuten.
It is now as in the days of yore when the sword ruled all things.
- Schiller, Wallenstein's Lager (VI, 140)

Wow, these are supposedly actual tulwars (origin of the word "tallywhacker" ? ) from the Sepoy Rebellion, captured by the Nepalese from fleeing mutineers .

http://www.atlantacutlery.com/p-2067-indian-mutiny-tulwar-sword.aspx

I once bought some items from a moving sale held by a Johns Hopkins grad student (_not_ the one who killed a burglar with a katana several years ago, this was a decade earlier) He had an Indian sword on the wall over the fireplace and I complimented him on his nice tulwar (I hope this doesn't sound like teh Ghey version of a Dear Penthouse letter...) He said I was the only person he had met who knew the correct name of the weapon.

I wound up buying Roger Zelazny's "Knights of Amber" (an excellent series!) and an Elric book, both in hardback.

"I am Elric of Melniboné, last of a line of great sorcerer kings. This blade I wield will do more than kill you, friend demon. It will drink your soul and feed it to me. Perhaps you have heard of me?"

Haha zombie apocolypse is my specialty for sure.... But I have never abused melons...

I love how I come up in the forums as random informational points of a topic.... I do enjoy it a lot and I am sure a forum search of my name would produce a very interesting snapshot....

Probably not as much as Al Amos or Ernie Sands....

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

Cool, thanks for the links. May pursue one of them. Although my 24" kukri should be enough for zombie defense

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23rd Light Dragoons, 3rd Brigade, Cav Division, II corps (British/KGL)