Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Was told by a fellow NWC member that a book would be arriving in my mail box soon. Went over to pick up packages at my box shop mail store where I get mail and a heavy cardboard book box was waiting for me.

I rode my bike home with book box in backpack, carefully avoiding the wild cossack drivers along the way, and then had to run off to work.

I got home last night, opened up the box to find that it was George Nafziger's new 1814 book!!!

I wont embarrass the person her publicly but might give him a nice juicy charge target in one of our games as a show of my thanks!

I plan on doing a comprehensive review of the book eventually. George told me that the publisher has held up the release of this book for years. No matter - I have it now and I intend on reading it from cover to cover. What I find might affect some of my work in 1814 so ... you might see some revised scenarios or OBs as a result .. and probably a few new scenarios too of actions I could not include because I lacked the data.

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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)

My, my Bill, that's a handsome gift from someone....

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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

Coming from the guy that has my three 1813 books by Nafziger ... it certainly was!

I must agree with the reviews that the publisher should have assigned a proofreader to the project. Paco has done this for me in the past. Volumes of text he has sent me where I either misspelled words or my grammar was off.

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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)

Lol this is true....

Also, you'd think someone of his stature & relevance would have been afforded such.....

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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

I guess it's "The End of Empire: Napoleon's 1814 Campaign", looking at the Amazon reviews it surely needs a second printing but only if they set some proofreaders on it before.
I only hope this is not the new standard or else it would be better to go for ebooks, proofread it yourself and printing it out only if really needed.

Yes, that is the book, Christian. The maps are nice, the OBs are the usual Nafziger style (meaning can have errors - you have to use other references along with his which for 1814 means "good luck").

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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)

Thanks to the kind gentle person (even here in the U.K. we have caught the dreaded American PC-itis), the tome will stop you watching Jerry S.

Glad you are back Sir.

Due to my age, war wounds and Helga's ministrations etc. am still grumpy...

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Brigadier Sellick Davies,
III (Peninsular Corps),
6th. Div.,
10th. Br. Bde.,
40th.(2nd. Somersetshire) Regt. of Foot