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Old Guard are true soldiers

So a Old Guard soldier got a stute of him all cause he said “SHIT” at the British

I know a few of these songs cause I heard them in guts an black powder the 92nd one is cock o the north an the bargain comander by the top hat guy was playing a song something left me behind idk I can’t remembe

So the guys in the red outlining are the 1ER Grenadiers

The ‘cartridge belts’ hold powder charges, generally 12 of them, hence known as the 12 apostles. They were wooden jars to prevent sparks, pre-measured for each shot.

I’m going down the ‘hundreds of tiny bases’ approach - like ‘brigade fire and fury. I’m going to home brew little wars tv’s ‘live free or die’ AWI rules and convert them to ACW.

Interesting, fighting over indigenous African land.

Good video.

Wargames Atlantic have space halflings now! They’re called SneakFeet! Do the review! Do The Review!! DO THE REVIEW!!!

Awesome! Glad to see you posting on your channel again!

Shame the British 450 000 troops consisting of ozzis rhodesians canadians scots wales and irish had to turn the war to Boer woman and children to win the second war , that doesn't say much about them fighting woman and children , yes and at the end the rhodecians did surender and rodesia became zimbabwe .

The Coldstream Guards tend to take the glory for Hougoumont, and though they undoubtedly deserve praise, the Scots Guards (or 3rd Foot Guards as they were known then) and KGL troops who were also there often get overlooked

Thank you, however, you have presented some very inaccurate facts. For example the war ended in 1901, not as you said 1902? Elandsfontein was a huge strategic victory for the Afrikaners as the siege tied up other troops who were designated to achieve other British strategies.

13:07 - YES! As soon as you said "Combat Drugs" I thought "Space Snake Cocaine" ... and then you beat me to it two seconds later! 🤪

Old school wargaming at it's best, jacking systems and concepts out of one game and leveraging them into another setting.

Muskets and Tomahawks! I played one of the older editions of this game back in the day. And we were talking about this at the club literally this last week. Great video!

Is the Marquis de Moncoutant from the Hornblower episode on this event a demonization of Henri de la Rochejaquelein? 34:00 - Are these two weird sources simply Reddit atheists? There's a significant overlap between disdaining religion enough to simply not know what the sacred heart is and seeking the most humdrum "down-to-earth" explanation for every historical event. It's fortunate that the French Republic didn't have firehoses or napalm, else the infernal columns could have engineered a massive forest fire to drive out the rebels and hunted down the fleeing survivors like the Aborigines, and repopulated the freshly fertilized area with new farmers. They were already the great enemy of Europe, it's not like one more atrocity would have changed that.

the Actor playing Picton ( Jack Hawkins )had Throat cancer at the time of filming

Just to point out, in FOV you don’t need to track wounds or resources between games that’s all handled in the card system.

Lovely stuff! Thank you!!!

I press like & it doesn't register. It's not just your channel. CORRECTION = IT DOES REGISTER, BUT NOT INSTANTLY. Great content from you.

I remember when they released this there was a White Dwarf with a great battle report, the scale of the games looked amazing

Waiting on that scenario generation video with bated breath, I'm guessing that was your one special thing?

It's "Pretorius", not "Praetorius", btw.

Hey! Thanks for the review! and looking forward to the scenario generator video! We love your content and so it was a pleasure to send you over the game for review! We are definitely looking at expanding! Where and how fast is really in the hands of the players! Thanks for the feedback on the optional rules, that was a difficult call to make! The armor movement rules might become standard though as they seem to be a favorite and aren't that much harder to use, plus they give light troops a real purpose in game.

After the Kickstarter they were talking about doing the WOTRs(English, Scottish, Irish) Eastern Mediterranean (Turks, Greeks, Venice..etc) The end of reconquest and Hansa league are some that we have also been talking about. Along with Portuguese around Africa, India and other such places.

Great to see you getting in to Pike & Shotte and very interested to see the contents of the Covenanter box. 👍 One of my favourite periods. Sergeants typically carried a halberd as a badge of their rank so I think that’s the reason for the odd figure here and there having a halberd. The staves for the colours were meant to be carried, and flourished, with a single hand - hence the shorter length. The waving about and flourishing of the colours was a big thing in this period. Some even had weighted buts added to the bottom to make them easier to twirl about. 😀

Gald to see you posting again :) Hope all's going well!

I think it's tad unfair to say Tarleton is a bad guy. I've not heard any really bad things outside of the US propaganda. Also the Britsh troops thought the Americans had committed perfidy. Which is a WAR CRIME. So they gave no quarter under the impression it was a trick. It's a mess, but not a war crime by the British.

I have played these rules a few times. Not perfect, in fact a bit chaotic with rolling to activate and leader characters meant I was never in control ----- but it was great fun.

N boer maak n plan,maar n engelsman maak n beter plan.

I Respect for the poor killed horses in battle. R.I.P ⛪✝️🐴🐎➕💐💧😞😢😔🙏🤲🇬🇧

In warlords of erehwon you can use them as a sharif unit!

I felt sorry for that British Horse Artilleryman that died about 4 times.

Great video, thanks! I don't know if you're interested in going into this topic further, but I would love to hear your treatment of Carrier and his atrocities at Nantes after the defeat of the Vendean army. I just finished a memoir dealing with the war and the its terrible aftermath, and I can't recommend it highly enough, particularly for its insights into the thinking and devotion of the Vendean people: "A Family of Brigands in 1793" by Marie de Sainte-Hermine (Angelus Press).

Many people forget that the Boers weren't a professional army. They were farmers that grew up hunting & roaming the veld. Not bad for a rag tag bunch holding the world largest empire at bay for a few years. The scorched earth policy that Lord Kitchener implemented inflicted colossal scars on the psyche of the Afrikaner. Thank You for a well researched & presented piece.

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Sir Sidney Smith was an important character in Jane Gaskell's book "Sylvia's Lovers" and is depicted at the Siege of Acre. He was my specialised subject in the UK Mastermind Final of 1981.

While George De Lacy-Evans did fight at Quatres Bras and Waterloo, the officer with Wellington on the retreat from QB and walking around in the rain on the night of the 17th is Sir William Howe DE LANCEY. Wellington out and out says it when they are about to leave the 27th Inniskillings billet. "De Lancey, if I should fail tomorrow... God I hope will have mercy on me - for nobody else will."

Why the Prussian general didnt trust the English? Because thats Gneisenau, the dude they named the armored cruiser that was sunk at the Falkland Islands in 1914 and the battle cruiser that was in ww2. Gneisenau was Blucher's chief of staff and he took over when Blucher was unhorsed and ridden over by waves of cavalry. Gneisenau was also rather famously an Anglophobe. Had Blucher died and Gneisenau taken over, Napoleon's plan to split the two different armies (Anglo Allied and Prussians) would have worked as Gneisenau was all set to retreat toward the Prussian lines of communications to the East and separate from the Anglo Allies whose ines of communications were north and west through Brussels to the Channel.

That's Sir William Howe de Lancey and his new wife Magdalen, played by Veronica de Laurentis. It actually IS confusing because the actor they cast as "Lord Hay" - who to my knowledge is a completely fictional character - looks like the kid twin brother of the actor who plays De Lancey. Fun fact. The most famous Lord Hay and the possible inspiration for "Lord Hay" here is Lord Charles Hay from the War of Austrian Succession, who very famously drank a toast to the French Guards at the Battle of Fontenoy 1745 and invited them to "fire first".

The American Revolution king was George III. The Prince Regent was George IV.

The rather ridiculous UP Guards/Now Maitland scene is Bondarchuk's very hilarious misunderstanding of British platoon fire tactics. The British would fire alternately by groups within a Regiment to unleash a nonstop rolling volley - as one group of platoons fired, another group would be reloading. Also the French Guard were rather horribly enfiladed by Dutch troops of Chasse's Division, the massive 52nd Light Infantry under Colborne (probably the biggest British unit on the field with over a thousand men) plus Maitland's Guards. They poured concentrated fire into the advancing Imperial Guard until la Garde Recule.

Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey was Wellington's Quartermaster General, being specially requested by the Iron Duke to avoid having to deal with the annoying and rather incompetent Sir Hudson Lowe - yes THAT Sir Hudson Lowe. De Lancey fatefully cut short his honeymoon with his new young wife Magdalen Hall, Lady de Lancey, to fight at Waterloo where he was mortally wounded. His wife searched the battlefield for him, found him at last but sadly there was nothing that could be done to save him. I don't think there's a "Delaney" listed. Perhaps you meant "Lord Hay"? By the way, De Lancey was actually an AMERICAN. His family were longstanding New York upper class, with a close relative marrying General Sir William Draper, the conqueror of Manila during the Seven Years War, and an uncle I believe it is, leading the notorious De Lancey Brigade of "Cowboys" during the American Revolution on the British side. De Lancey's full first name was WILLIAM HOWE - named after the overall British commander in the American Revolution from 1776 to 1778 I believe it was.

The references to General Lambert are generally wrong. Lambert's Brigade, which had just arrived from the disastrous New Orleans campaign, was to the right of the Anglo Allied line and did not get involved till later. The 27th Inniskilling Fusiliers, which piggy dude is part of, were part of that Brigade and yet it is heavily implied that the 27th and 92nd Gordon Highlanders were Brigaded together under Picton's command - which they absolutely weren't. The Gordon's were in Sir Dennis Pack's Brigade of Peninsular veterans, alongside 1st Royal Scots, 42nd Black Watch and the 44th East Essex, to the left center of Wellington's line, behind Bijlandt's Dutch Belgian infantry brigade.

Nearly all the scenes of fighting within walls in this movie are meant to be of Hougoumont, not La Haye Sainte, which is actually almost completely ignored except for those tiny segments - the French taking the farmhouse and the British retaking it. No detail, not much more than an excerpt.

By the way, I don't think you caught it - the Prussians are charging the wrong way. Their sabers are in their LEFT hands. I suspect that they shot the charge scene for the battle of Ligny, didn't use it, then recycled it for the end of the Battle of Waterloo.

One MAJOR problem with the movie Waterloo is Bondarchuk drew very VERY VVEEERRRYYYYY heavily from a published work of FICTION - none other than Victor Hugo's Les Miserables! There is a long drawn out and very detailed (and quite inaccurate overall) chapter in Les Miserables (at the start of Cosette's story) narrating the entire battle of Waterloo. Victor Hugo goes into very minute detail and describes a LOT of the fictional aspects that found their way into Bondarchuk's movie - the British squares hiding cannon inside and then opening up to fire, then closing up again. The last square of the Imperial Guard being massacred by very close range artillery. The Scots Grey's and only the Scots Grey's charging. The piper being cut down in the middle of the square by a trapped cuirassier. That's one of the weaknesses of Bondarchuk's movie - it does have a pretty sizable amount of fiction interlaced within. That being said, it's far and away more accurate than that more contemporary Napoleonic movie that was just released.

Re: The Merde guy - that's General Pierre Cambronne. Popular history has him saying "la mott de Cambronne" aka Merde, other accounts have him being captured rather miserably by General H Halkett. After the war, he was in prison in England where he became quite popular and roundly denied that he had ever uttered the infamous badass "Merde".

We hàte the Empire arrogance that to this Dày manifest in modern English speaking peoples !! You fail utterly in understanding the Boer people... 😡 because you are still so blinded by your own self-righteous empire ideology Gravitas and Respect is needed, NOT your pathetic effort at making a humorous JOKE at what was for us Afrikaners PROFOUND HORROR