Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Well hell most have frozen over me and Bill agree on something besides am still a frog eaten, shrimp sucking craw-daddy eating ,swamp rat,gator tail-soup, bloody Mary's and turtle soup for breakfast and rum drinker for lunch and Zydeco playing Creole. Any thing else am that too.

In case anyone is confused, I don't have strong, personal viewpoints about Napoleon. Now, the viewpoints of a Hanoverian officer that I know are particularly strong when it comes to Bonaparte. In his world, the Emperor of France is very much alive. In mine, the man has been dead for nearly 200 years. I think there are a lot of people in this club that confuse the two, but no one should ever assume that I personally confuse them. One is role playing, and the other reality. Back in the day, I heard of some people that actually took role playing too seriously and murdered their sibling because they were convinced he really was an Orc. I never had that problem. Never will. It is a mistake to ever confuse the two, and not one that you will ever see me make.

I, as the President of this club, believe that Napoleon Bonaparte was an unquestionable genius who did much good for the world and also a great deal of harm. I respect him for his great abilities, but do not overlook his faults either. I neither hate, nor worship the man.

My Hanoverian persona in this club literally does hate Bonaparte. He was forced to join the Westphalian Army to protect his idealistic younger brother who was mesmerized by the Corsican and voluntarily enlisted. Both marched into Russia in 1812 as a part of La Grande Armee. Both suffered the greatest of hardships as what little food and warm clothing that could be had was distributed to the French Guardsman and regular troops while their allies were left to starve and freeze. His little brother was killed by a Cossack who in turn fell to the rifle of the Westphalian Sous Lietenant that you now know as the Commander of the Hanoverian Brigade. Yes, my character hates Bonaparte, and would gladly risk being run through by General Knox's sword to deliver a fatal bullet between the Corsican's eyes.

I am a role player and a writer, both of which demand a storyline to be effective. I view every member as a fellow gamer, and make no distinction whatsoever in their relative value by the fictitious army in which they serve. The simple purpose of this club, to me, is to have fun and make as many Napoleonic gaming friends along the way as possible. I do not at present believe that this view is shared by all, but I hold out the hope that one day it will be. We are all brother gamers united in a love for Napoleonic history and military wargames. Never get so deeply involved that you forget to have fun along the way, or forget that our ranks and titles are not actually real.

Now, if you will excuse me, I must go sharpen a pike. It wouldn’t do to mount the Corsican's head on something dull. That would just be plain disrespectful.

Mon ami bon story I also play n the part of a moi ggggF who was ran off of Haiti by the Slave rebellion there and ended up in Baltimore at the same school me and my brother were put out of St Mary's on St Mary street and Penn ave. The Ole Haitians home for homeless Mulatto's. Great history if you ever were interested true story of my family who on one side can down fro Ca with the help of the French and set up on the Del River the Lanni Lappi Native Americans. We sell our family name Senet they spell it Seeney. An yes not all people of color were slaves.

I would think that strong, weak or any opinions about Napoleon, politely posted, should be welcomed in a club where battles revolving around Napoleon is central to the club's reason for existence.

If we can't converse about Napoleon here, then where, and what would we cover here?

I will defend Napoleon and take attacks on him as jest for we all know he was simply a man, maybe not the best of men, but a man of his era. So I will make my defense the Emperor hopefully more fun.

And let's Battle On,

We could talk about the superiority of the French cuisine over the rest of the world!

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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

Why sir's Napoleon is the greatest man who has ever lived. I would gladly sacrifice myself in defense of Tondu and certainly take the bullet from the dastardly Brigand Jones's rifle should he ever get close enough to our beloved Emperor.

Yours
General Knox
circa 1809

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Marechal Knox

Prince d'Austerlitz et Comte d'Argentan
Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur

"What is history but a fable agreed upon"

Hmmm, take the bullet or run him through......take the bullet or run him through........what a quandary. If I have learned anything of the measure of you my good friend, I would bet on you somehow managing to do both.

Ain't never heard of no French barbecue!

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Field Marshal Mark Nelms

BBQ Frog legs, perhaps?

Mark, watch Daniel Day-Lewis' version of "Last of the Mohicans", closely, to get your answer.

Brigadier Jones, even the rulers of Europe only lock the Emperor Napoleon away on an Island. Either out of fear or respect or maybe both!

Yes, but then they are sure to feed him a bit of arsenic every day until he expires.

They forgot the arsenic part the first time around and it landed them in a lot of trouble.

Nothing honorable about it, I readily admit.

I can always count on the Happy Hanoverian Brigadier for a good and a very good chuckle!