Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

War and Peace will air on A&E, Lifetime, and History Channel in the US as four two-hour episodes, beginning on January 18, 2016

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3910804/

Getting good reviews.

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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

Awesome! I watched part of the old Russian one but was not actually able to get all the dvd's

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Awesome! I watched part of the old Russian one but was not actually able to get all the dvd's

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... is there an echo in here ?

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Major General Richard Bradshaw, 1st Viscount of Manchester

Lloyd's Battery, Royal Artillery
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Reserve Artillery & Engineers

... is there an echo in here ?

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Ernie Sands
1ère Brigade of 2ème Division de Grosse Cavalerie, Réserve de Cavalerie
de la Grande Armée
President, Colonial Campaigns Club

What's that Ernie?

What's that Ernie?

What's that Ernie?

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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

Naw, Ernie just needs to adjust his hearing aid!

Thanks for the heads up on this. I dont get tv/cable here. Wondering if it will air on the internet. Otherwise I will wait for it to come to DVD and watch it that way.

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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

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I saw some of it...I liked the casting (especially Pierre and the Bolkonski's) and I think they tried to capture the disorientation and brutality of the battles. What do you guys think?

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It was pretty good I thought Jim. It disturbed me to see the large ants scurrying amongst the dead at Austerlitz as they should have been chilling deep underground during the cold weather.

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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

The heat of battle and the chance for a hot meal drew them out?

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Major General Richard Bradshaw, 1st Viscount of Manchester

Lloyd's Battery, Royal Artillery
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Reserve Artillery & Engineers

Ugh.

We have recorded the series so far but have yet to watch any of it. It certainly had good reviews in the tv magazines and is clearly a lavish and expensive production.

There are some visible lapses, gentlemen, indeed.
At the filming of 1805 Campaign's scenes, they used a lot of Russian re-enactor groups but ...
in the 1810-12 period uniforms.
The ball's uniform of Prince Bolkonskij looks just masqueradely.
Dolokhov fought in 1805 as a private. He was degraded for his duel with Count Bezukhov.
The episode with the heroic stand of Captain Tushin's battery at Schengraben is completely indistinct. But it is one of the most bright and interesting in book.
L'Empereur looks like a some banal Italian harlequin.
Etc., etc., etc.

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General-Feldmarshal Prince Vladimir N. Repnin
Imperial Russian Corps Commander
Prince Braine-Le Comte & The Adjutant-General of His Imperial Majesty
Chevalier Guards Regiment

The series starts a bit later in the DEEP South, on Feb 11. Should be good.

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Marechal d’Empire Mark Oakford
Duc de Smolensk, Comte d'Autun
Commandant
Réserve de Cavalerie, La Grande Armée

[quote="Mark Oakford"]The series starts a bit later in the DEEP South, on Feb 11. Should be good.[/quote]

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Ernie Sands
1ère Brigade of 2ème Division de Grosse Cavalerie, Réserve de Cavalerie
de la Grande Armée
President, Colonial Campaigns Club

We saw the first episode yesterday on catch up. We were disappointed. I've not read the book so can't compare; I preferred the original series. The battle scenes were realistic enough but we thought the acting a bit stiff and overall lacked any atmosphere. Anne disapproved of the various - if rather fleeting- scenes of gratuitous nudity . Is the scene of sibling incest true to the book? We (she) deleted the rest.