Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Coming to a battlefield near you in June - a match between the Black Menace of Prussia and its rival in the Coalition, the White Stallions.

See if you can figure out which Coalition formation I am speaking of. First member to do so wins a cookie.

Members of the Black Menace and White Stallions not eligible for guessing.

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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 know who it is, but I won't say!

More Like Death meets my Little Pony....

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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

I can only hope it is the pompous Hanoverian soldiers and the thought of Prussians Sheep Riders and the White Pony Riders slaughter themselves will be most pleasing to the fine soldiers of the Grande Armee. I hope we can take a break from conquering Europe to watch.

Our Prussian Allies could certainly not be contemplating war on the Hanoverian borne officers of the Hanoverian Brigade. Whereas it is true that the mounts of our nobility are often white in color, and that this is replicated on our national flag, the Prussians are our Brothers in Arms, Comrades to the Death, and Buddies for Life!

(Of course, there was the time where they were secretly negotiating with the Corsican Midget to subsume our country by political agreement, without any consultation with us. )

Besides all of the brotherly love and bonding inherent in the sharing of a common language and culture, such a challenge would be utterly unwise on the part of our Prussian 'friends'.

Surely the implication of this post by the Prussian General Peters has been badly misconstrued.

Siding up to his Colonel, the young officer asks, "Does he always get this way after having a few? I've never seen a senior officer so in his cups."
"Tsch," said the Colonel, "Never interrupt a Prussian or the'll start going on and on about Frederick der Grosser."
Thinking on this, the young officer asked,"But, didn't the Prussians invade Russia with the French? Didn't they walk hand-in-hand with the cockroach??"
"Please Lieutenant, fetch us another round before the Prussian puts us all to sleep."
"I could start another song, Sir."
"Yes, yes, that might be a good thing."

"And now, here is a little ditty you will all enjoy...
Droben im Oberland, ei, das ist so wunderfein
Da bluht die Jagerei, halli-o
da ist das Schiessen Frei......."

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Listening to the young officer sing in his splendid, baritone voice, the Colonel comes to a sudden realization. It has become almost a tradition that Hanoverian officers adopt a nickname. Many were familiar with Lieutenant Clawson’s appellation of ‘Die Ratte’ (The Rat). Though not quite as well touted, the Colonel himself carries his own nickname of ‘Der Jager’ (The Hunter). It is no less fitting that this fine, young officer who has such a wonderful singing voice also have a nickname of his own.

“If is it acceptable to you, sir, I believe you have earned a Hanoverian nickname of your own,” says the Colonel. “You have an exquisite voice and, should you accept it, I suggest that we call you ‘Der Singvogel’ (The Songbird)."

Hanoverians and Prussians keep talking, but when does the battling start.

After we finish killing all of the French, of course!

Once your Emperor has been executed, or for the faint of heart, exiled (again), we will argue over how to divide the spoils. Of course that is really more for the large, greedy countries to handle. We Hanoverians just want to be left alone. There have been far too many 'Big Boots' traipsing back and forth across our country over these last few years. My hope is to one day return to hunting deer instead of hostile invaders.

Now why would you Frenchies want to send the Prussians out on a foray to kill us poor, Hanoverian peasants? I would have thought you would have jealously reserved that singular honor for yourselves. ---Sigh!--- It's tough to be the little guy in a world of posturing Bullies.

Definitely looking forward to the match. Only Mark's brigade could give us a good fight anyway the rest of the club being droll and boring.

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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)

Oh young man and hadn't Hanover served the French well by feeding Westphalian regiments? Didn't she run at the first sight of the French at Waterloo?

We didn't walk hand in hand with the French, forced by the sword is more like it a sword that would slit the French throats in the end. More Prussian blood was spilled to ensure such a freedom for Europe than there are people in your pathetic Electorate!

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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

My dear General Ludwig, you really must study your history more, sir. Prussia remained a sovereign nation when it aided the French in the invasion of Mother Russia. It is a factual statement that Hanoverians also entered Russia as a part of the French invading force in the white uniforms of Westphalia; Westphalia, my good Prussian comrade, not Hanover. Now why in the world would Hanoverians fight for The Roach under any name other than Hanover, you ask. Well, the answer is very simple. It is because our tiny nation was gifted to the Empyreal Numbskull by the Russians at Tilsit after you Prussians totally botched your Great War of 1806. My poor countrymen had no choice but to march into Russia and die with La Grande Armee. We had been betrayed to him by all of you puff chested major powers.

Now regarding 1815 and the Battle of Waterloo, the Hanoverians performed exemplary service that day. They did not run as you purport. They in fact took exceedingly heavy casualties while maintaining their positions. The E Morale Hanoverian troops that are represented in our games were never engaged in the actual battle. They are consistently engaged by the Old Guard in our games, but that did not happen in reality. Napoleon did not have the omnipotent advantage that the French players have in our games to controllably target the weakest units with their very best.

And of the Hanoverians in the King’s German Legion, well, their reputation speaks for itself. Wellington always considered the Hanoverians to be among his very best troops.

The Dutch-Belgians were much maligned in this engagement as well. Again, a case of the major powers, in this particular instance Britain, writing the history. Were it not for the forward deployment of the Dutch-Belgians at Quatre Bras on the 16th, decidedly against orders I might add, your vaunted Prussians would most likely have suffered a catastrophic defeat on the fields of Ligny that day.

I don’t think the Prussian Army of 1815 ever received the great credit that it truly deserved, but the much inferior Prussian Army of 1806, which believed itself to be invincible, is what catapulted our small nation into the waiting arms of the Corsican Ogre and brought ruin to your large nation for many years to follow.

As for the Hanoverians in my brigade, we are a proud part of the Anglo-Allied Army and no nation, French or otherwise, is ever going to overrun us again.

The Hanoverian Colonel should be writing historic novels. Good ones I may add!

I have to say, I really enjoy seeing the enemies of France arguing between themselves like that!
It's always entertaining.

Popcorn someone?

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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

My fair Colonel, your revisionist writing it most interesting. The Fat Pretend German on the English throne was more than willing to throw his grandfather's homeland away to the hawks of Europe. We only sought to keep it from complete French control forever. If it was not for your German brothers, you'd be speaking French right now!

As for your "bravery" on the battlefield, the Duke of Cumberland Hussars served well by running from the battlefield without a shot fired at them, while the Dutch Belgian Cavlary performed quite well and saved Welly's lines from disaster. Of course the arrival of Beloved Prussia helped ease the Duke's burden and carry the day. The famous John Etling has once said that Prussia won the battle of Waterloo. Now for Quatre Bras, the weak attempt by the Duke, whom knew his allies were under attack to make a stand is not to be compared to our "Promise" we made to the Duke and the follow through that we performed that night & the next day to win the battle for the British writers to claim as their win.

Now the King's German Legion is a great force and the only thing noteworthy of Hanover, which would of been overrun by the French anyway had we not made a stand in 1806. Where were the Bloody English then, so afraid to hang out with those on the Continent!

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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

My dear General Windy, your incoherent ramblings remind me of a certain Usurper from Corsica who was always ‘liberating’ this or ‘liberating’ that, all for the betterment of the persons who were ‘liberated’ of course.

You speak of the flight of the Cumberland Hussars, but fail to mention the much more common feats of heroism undertaken by the Hanoverian infantry, including my beloved Field Jagers, and if the actions of your nation in 1806 were ‘taking a stand’, well perhaps you should have warned your troops that the French were actually carrying weapons.

Much credit is indeed due to Herr Blucher for his actions on the 17th and 18th. He stayed the course when a great many of his officers were arguing to the contrary. I believe he did it out of a deep sense of honor, but it could also have been simple preservation. To allow the Corsican Roach to destroy the Anglo-Allied Army unhindered would have been a mistake in any case. Once they were gone, the vile Usurper would have turned on the Prussians again in very short order. Regarding the events of the 16th, Wellington had generally botched his march and delayed his concentration. There was no malice involved, only an error in judgment that could well have ended in disaster had not the Dutch-Belgians been insubordinate in their dispositions.

Bah, but bickering here with you serves no useful purpose. I have many Frenchmen left to kill today and your ramblings only serve to keep me from my appointed duties. Did I not know better, I could start to suspect that General Peters and you might have finally succumbed to the Corsican’s charisma at long last. By challenging my men, you spare the lives of many French, undoubtedly at the cost of many of your own. Why you would do so lies far beyond my understanding, but I am definitely convinced that the Ogre applauds your actions. Why he might even give you a medal.