#napoleonics

[axehew]

Part four of my photos from Apsley House!!! I thought the Napoleon, Josephine and Arthur christmas decorations were absolutely adorable!

[warchirfsminitures]

Had a game of epic black powder using my minis. Simple learning game. Looked good and played smoothly.

[oldschoolfrp]

Dragon magazine 26, June 1979, featured GDW's wargame System 7 Napoleonics on the cover and in 4 articles -- a review, system analysis, designer's comments, and Q&A with designer Rich Banner. System 7 was a hybrid of board and miniature wargames, played on a table without a board but using cardboard counters to represent the formations of units. The aim was to get players playing immediately without spending weeks painting miniatures.

Other articles covered TSR's William the Conqueror: 1066 board game, D&D, Boot Hill, Empire of the Petal Throne, FGU's Lords & Wizards, and Avalon Hill's Starship Troopers.

The origins of D&D were rooted deeply in historical miniatures campaigns, and TSR originally catered to the wargaming community as a core part of its audience. TSR was founded to sell D&D but its first publications were historical miniatures rules, and Dragon magazine continued to include historical gaming topics for years, gradually reducing its coverage in favor of more D&D content and other TSR RPGs.

[oneangryguardsman]

I have become grognard, destroyer of worlds

[rnsulentic]

Italy 1796 again. French attack driven off with loss.

[amypihcs]

AAAAND another one of my mad AUs

Music? On and rocking Courage? Mustered Dignity? Already waved her goodbye OK i’m ready. Apparently summer, having to study for exams i dislike and most of all reading nice books that send me in hyperfixation with the characters give me IDEAS™. After some time spent convincing myself to do it i’ve finally read The Three Musketeers and having loved it to FOLLY, i CLEARLY devoured also Twenty Years After and started the Viscount  of Bragelonne (Athos, i love you, but we’re not talking of you, forgive me my man). This new obsession tonight coupled with my ever present love for LOTR and Silm and since APPARENTLY heat goes up to my head, i thought:

Ok, here we have Aramis, ridiculously always good looking, even at like... 20 years from the first time we meet him he is THE SAME AS ALWAYS and in the Viscount for the little i know for now he didn’t age much either, Devilishly good with horses AND swords (eggrazziearcazzo, you may say, he’s a MUSKETEER) with almost ZERO impulse control (Athos works as impulse control for them, actually) but GREAT cold blood, can apparently sing quite well, some disregard for rules and some great agility and effort in actually always managing to break one of two of those and... oh look, all the boxes check and hear me out. Aramis. Being. MAGLOR FEANORION!!  I talked about this with my darling @tairin, my nice sis who i love and thank very much for being always there to hear me rambling about my obsessions and not having killed me yet. And she is even more of a genius than i suspected! (@joachimnapoleon​ please don’t kill us) She made me give a second check to who ELSE checked all the boxes and here, the illumination.  Good looking Incredible with horses Apparently skilled in verses/songs Devilish with a sword some disregard for rules NOT imposed by himself Joachim Murat. Being Maglor Feanorion.

Tolkien fandom out here (@thiswaycomessomethingwicked​ i get you’re one of us?) tell me if maglor wouldn’t have a portrait of himself like this one of our darling jojo, c’mon! He checks out also the diva personality!! 

Anyway, this was my new silly AU, don’t kill me please, i still have to pass biochemistry and see confirmed my credits for cmcf, i’m too young to die and my cats would miss me😂  I hope you at least laughed a bit form this one silly thing.

[cam2d]

Marquis De Montcalm, a Christmas gift for my dad. Fun to paint an old historical model!