Unlike everyone's favourite Corsican midget Peter Gilder had many Waterloos - indeed with at least 3 written up for magazines, 1 televised, and no doubt numerous refights at the WHC, PGs Waterloos must have been as frequent as Abba encores....
I am left with the impression that he won them all too.
If you have been left frustrated by the sudden end to PG's series from Miniature Warfare then this article from September 1975's Mil Mod might help complete the picture to some extent as it's an account of a different refight staged by PG and friends 5 years later. Guess who won...
5 comments:
Daily goodness!
Thanks for posting this. The article was the one I remembered and now I have the date I found the old magazine. I'm sure later on he also did a series on another large scale battle, perhaps Boridino. This may however have been in an early Minature wargames.
Regards,
Guy
Guy,
If you check my Gilder bibliography you'll find 'Let's Fight Leipzig' was published in issues 4 and 5 of Miniature Wargames.
Cheers.
Thanks for the reminder - Leipzig. knew it had rusian troops in it as I remember the photos.
Guy
Miniature Wargames issue 23 had an article on Borodino at the Wargames Holiday Centre, similar in style to the Leipzig piece, but authored by Mark Moon rather than Peter Gilder.
Great blog this.
Steve Gill
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