What's it All About?

This blog will be a record of my wargaming an alternative timeline to the French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802 i.e. from the Valmy campaign to the Treaty of Amiens,

I've been working on this project for a little over a year, painting 15mm French Republican and Imperial Austrian armies; researching and developing rules and army lists; and gathering terrain, maps and other sundry odds and ends to enable me to fight out some of the battles waged by these two protagonists.

The project will be 'an alternative timeline' - that is I'll use a variety of methods to provide context for table top battles, some of which I'll borrow from my other blog 'War for Slow Readers' . That blog started out as a record of the wars in Angola 1975-89 but soon expanded to cover other periods and conflicts. Rather than cover the French Revolutionary Wars via that blog I've decided to start a new one.

This is though, an alternative timeline, so it will be 'semi-historical' in that, as a favourite blog of mine puts it: 'what did happen, what could have happened, what would have happened, doesn't matter at all. Not a jot.' 

Remember games are the goal not the detail. Therefore we don't have to overly worry about the numbers of men, horses, guns, barrels of powder and wine and loaves of bread in a particular theatre of operations. What we have to do though is provide a context for our battles.

We'll define our campaign arena within its interanational setting and local geographic context. We've given it key personages, major locations and strategic direction. And from there our campaign will unfold.

So, kiss your girl goodbye, put on your spurs and saddle up up your horse...