I would like to see buildings for Waterloo. La Haye Saint as well as Hougomont.
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Posted 8 months ago #
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I have given this idea a great deal of thought and I even collected some scale drawings of La Haye Saint. The problem with creating exact models of historic buildings is that if you build them to scale they will be far too large for a typical gaming table. Nearly every game has a 'ground scale' that is much different from the scale of the figures. For example, a 15mm scale figure is approximately 1/100th scale. The real La Haye Saint farm is about 300 feet long by about 125 feet wide. A 1/100th scale model would be 3 FEET long by over a FOOT wide! The Hougamont complex would be over 6 FEET square! At larger scales they would be even more enormous. Even at 1/300th scale La Haye Saint would be a foot long. Way too big for gaming tables. So, unfortunately, for anything other than 1-to-1 skirmish gaming it just isn't practical to have scale models of the real buildings. We have to use representative models instead. Right now my 'European Farm Complex' model would make a good approximation of La Haye Saint. I'm still thinking about what to do for Hougamont :)
Posted 8 months ago #
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