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Time: November 27, 2011 all day
Location: WORLD LIFE CLUB
Street: yan An Da Jie 延安大街1149号，南湖名家1栋2门104 World life club!
City/Town: The choon!
Event Type: game
Organized By: Sebastien Bossard
Latest Activity: Nov 25, 2011

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Hello, I will organize with the World Life Club a huge miniature wargame. The thema is the battle of Gravelotte St Privat, one of the biggest battle of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. The surface area of the game will be 15 sqm and the number of miniatures around 8 000, so the view will be quite spectacular. I will need 11 motivated players, 6 for the German team and 5 for the French team. If you like history and/or strategy game, like chess, please feel free to participate. The game will be organized in November or December and it will be a two-three days event.

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Comment by Richard ridealgh on October 26, 2011 at 11:37: Holy moley!

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 26, 2011 at 7:45: hello players, the game is played, once you read carefully the rulebook with 4 very convenient reference charts. Note that it's copyrighted and i hope you can make a copy of them just for the game and then i will suppress this content.

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 26, 2011 at 7:43

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 26, 2011 at 7:39

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 26, 2011 at 7:37

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 26, 2011 at 7:32

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 20, 2011 at 5:55: http://francoprussianwar.com/war.htm

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 20, 2011 at 5:11: http://www.historynet.com/the-day-of-doom-the-battle-of-gravelotte-...

Comment by Sebastien Bossard on October 18, 2011 at 20:06: This time I will speak about the sequence of play ( which represents a period of 30 minutes of the battle)

First, it's the command and control phase during which you place order chits: the French can place one per division and the German one per brigade, it's command system being more efficient. There is three possible orders: charge, move or rally.

Second phase is order activation: you throw a 10 sided dice to determine if your order is activated, from 1 to 7 it is activated on average and 8,9 or 0, you fail. Then you declare your charges and rally your troops.

Third phase is Movement: you move and then you do the opportunity fire

Fourth phase is Fire:

1. artillery and mitrailleuses

2. rifles

3. charges and assaults

The last phase is the Melee

Hope this helps, I will explain with more details each phase during the preliminary meeting.