Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Gentlemen Officers of the NWC!

Or should I say, Inebriated Gentlemen Officers of the NWC!

I know that your livers are screaming in protest from all of the alcohol being consumed in celebration of the recent promotions and medals for many of the fine officers of the Coalition Armies, but your livers will just have to tough it out a bit longer, because I have my own announcements to add to those which have already been made.

Please join me in congratulating the newest Captain in the Brunswick Brigade, Omar Quatar! Rumor has it that he wrestled a grizzly bear to the ground with his bare hands and held him there with his knee until he could install a tracking device in the poor creature's ear. Now I admit that there are perhaps easier ways to discover the location of large stashes of honey, but as Captain Quatar once told me when asked, "Such ways are for sissies and Frenchmen!" Who was I to argue?

I would also like to extend a very special congratulations to a Hanoverian officer of whom I am particularly proud, Major Thomas David Phillips. For his exemplary performance in the Club's first Struggle of Nations Tournament, a journey which led him all the way to the Final Round, Generaal Bijl has seen fit to convey nothing less than the Army Gold Cross to this fine representative of the mighty, and irrepressible, Anglo-Allied Army. Congratulations to the Hanoverian "Falke"!

[Yes, Helga, please charge these rounds to the accounts of the Marshals Blackburn and Bardin. As they are both already running tabs, I see no earthly reason why we should complicate your paperwork this evening. ]

Well Monsieur Quatar when will our swords met an I can teach you how we from the ILes fight this time i will not give you a chance before I gave you the best of three and a draw is not the best! Major Phillips con grads and Bravo you most be fighting our new garcons who think to much and camp on you come to me and let me show you how to dance with Napoleon!

Congrats and well done to you both!

Congratulations to both Major Phillips and Captain Quatar - and many thanks for the free drinks ,

Congrats to both of you and Battle On.....

But not so well next time.............

Congratulations gentlemen, and here is General Jones tab for your rounds, but you didn't get it from me.

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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

I'm honoured

and... Clifton... i still have to understand what you precisely mean with "the best of three"

The best of three means you get to play twice if you lose or draw the winner of 2 takes all!

yes but it was a poor scenario for the austrians, i couldn't hope in nothing better than a draw and i achieved it in the first try, therefore no purpose in playing further 2

Ok ,I understand where you coming from on that. Am playing a game in 1815 the combine Allied force is 250,000 men vs 120,000 French I thank and i could be wrong that the French can beat that odds. Robert E Lee said we don't count the enemies advantage we win because we fight better. Not all games are made with advantages some can be won by good tactics.

sorry you weren't able to win that game, though the odds were stacked in your favour
wish you use better tactics next time

Monsieur if you thank that yours are better step out and let's have a game. I know you thank they are you can be as Condescending as you want to be here but prove me wrong .

Your commander and I have a long gaming history ask him if am wrong.

Congratulations Omar!

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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"