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  • #181665
    Avatar photoferg981
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    Afternoon all,

    You may remember my post from earlier on in the year “what does a wargamer do with £1 GBP of matchsticks?”

    Well, today I refought Austerlitz using the DBN rules and about 25p worth of the matchsticks, and I have to say it was really good fun and opens up a lot of possibilities – you can find out more, as well as who won the battle by clicking the link to my blog below

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    I think that this is a really cost effective way of fighting those large battles that otherwise you wouldn’t get the opportunity to refight, unless you were very lucky.

    As always, comments, suggestions and feedback welcome

    Kind Regards

    J

    My Blog - https://peninsularwargamingblog.wordpress.com

    #181666
    Avatar photoSteve Johnson
    Participant

    I think they’re just brilliant!

    #181667
    Avatar photowillz
    Participant

    Well done fantastic wargaming concept at its best, you deserve a medal or at least another box of matches.

    #181669
    Avatar photoJim Webster
    Participant

    Nice idea, nicely executed 🙂

    https://jimssfnovelsandwargamerules.wordpress.com/

    #181680
    Avatar photoian pillay
    Participant

    Very cool and really effective. That’s a brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing.

    Tally-Ho! Check out my blog at…..
    http://steelcitywargaming.wordpress.com/

    #181698
    Avatar photoTony S
    Participant

    Looks like great fun!  I’ve always rather liked the DBN rules, although I’m in the minority around here.  However, the few times we tried them, we used our existing 15mm collections, which was somewhat visually off-putting to some players.

    I think your matchstick brigades do look far better for the large scale of DBN!

    You mention when you were making the armies, that you didn’t realize how tedious or difficult cutting all those matches without a matchstick cutter would be.  Do they actually make such a device?

    #181704
    Avatar photoMike
    Keymaster

    The Chopper allows you to cut several at once:

     

    Gluing Plasticard

    #181706
    Avatar photoTony S
    Participant

    The Chopper allows you to cut several at once:

    Gluing Plasticard

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    Oh!  That’s a clever little device.  My wife enjoys doing all sorts of little crafty things.  I could have gotten that for a Christmas present.  For her of course.

    #181707
    Avatar photoJim Webster
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    Buy her it now, as a belated present, because you’re just some old romantic 🙂

    https://jimssfnovelsandwargamerules.wordpress.com/

    #181755
    Avatar photoTony S
    Participant

    Buy her it now, as a belated present, because you’re just some old romantic 🙂

    Funny; that’s exactly what my wife calls me.  No, wait – she uses a different noun.

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