Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

The Promise Lives!!

A Prussian Always Keeps His Word!!

Then out of no where rode up the Great Marschall Vorwärts, Generalfeldmarschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt, having shouted amongst the line Vorwärts Meine Kinder, Vorwärts!! With Honor and Bravery the Legions of Glory smashed into the French rear!!

And when all was done that day, the Great Marschall Vorwärts rode up to the Man he had Promised to and they celebrated. "The Promise Not Forgotten" had been Completed!!

Prussia may not win all the time, but their Honor and Courage is unlike no other. Bested by defeat after defeat The Great Marschall Vorwärts only knew one way!! FORWARD!!

The Only Man never afraid of Ole' Boney, bested him in the end and Won the Triumph Glory!!

This Day, Blücher's Day, Waterloo Day!!

Preußens Gloria!!

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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

It was almost as if Blucher was born to help beat Napoleon. The guy fights in the Seven Years War, then takes to the field shortly during the French Rev Wars .... then comes back to fight (and lose) in 1806.

Finally pissed with the way that the French were treating the canteen ladies, he comes out of retirement from his farm and beats the pants off of the French in 1813-15 while suffering only minor losses here and there with Ligny being his worst.

Dies shortly after the wars, his dreams fulfilled. Napoleon outlives him but not by much.

Lets PARTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

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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, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.09)

I just finished Leggiere's new book on the Spring Campaign of 1813 and he sheds a lot of light on Blucher as a leader of men and a leader of an army/corps on campaign and in combat. Using letters and orders etc to show that while Gneisenau gets credit for being Blucher's brain, Blucher gave him nearly free reign because their military and political opinions were basically in complete agreement. In short, he shows Blucher to be much smarter and more engaged with the actual managing of his troops than the standard story (Leggiere's 1814 Vol 1 did similar things in my mind for Ney and McDonald, using their letters to show their competency at their jobs)...

I look forward to the 2nd Volume to be released at the end of the month (I started reading the free sample on kindle already) to see how this plays out and now I want to read Leggiere's recent biography of Blucher.

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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

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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

Thanks for the write up on Blucher. I think he gets a bad knock from a lot of historians. Sure, he was likely an alcoholic, as were many of his peers....

There is a lot more I want to share too, but it'll have to wait. My arm is not my friend today....

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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

Good news, Scott, they are working on bionic technology. Maybe in the near future you can get an arm replacement You might get to meet Lindsey Wagner too!

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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, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.09)

Yep than you will still be kicking ass in 20 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVQ5O76q7cc

Haha!! Good news indeed!!

Yeah I'll take her too please for 500 Alex!! Still pretty hot today even....

My splints came yesterday for my hands, very, very helpful! Got to try to find the right amount of time using them and time when I don't have them on, so it gives my hand a chance to rest & breathe.....either way, very helpful indeed!

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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