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| Something got delivered, and it was for me and I wasn't expecting it. |
It's a big box and it rattles.
There's a hand written card!
And a personal message from the commander of the KGL!
And an entire Perry Miniature BATTALION OF INFANTRY TO COMMAND!
I have the Waterloo Boxed set, but I didn't have a unit I could use as the KGL. Now I do! Not sure how I can equip them, with the Baker Rifles that the 2nd Light Battalion King’s German Legion had, but I will need to try.
And the ENTIRE buildings and courtyard to fight one of the most iconic battle locations of all time! Terrain that has it's own Wiki page.
La Haye Sainte (named either after Jesus Christ's crown of thorns or a bramble hedge round a field nearby[1]) is a walled farmhouse compound at the foot of an escarpment on the Charleroi-Brussels road in Belgium. It has changed very little since it played a crucial part in the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.
La Haye Sainte was defended by about 400 German troops during the Battle of Waterloo. They were hopelessly outnumbered by attacking French troops but held out until the late afternoon when they retired because their ammunition had run out. If Napoleon Bonaparte's army had captured La Haye Sainte earlier in the day, almost certainly he would have broken through the allied centre and defeated the Duke of Wellington's army.[2]
The capture of La Haye Sainte in the early evening then gave the French the advantage of a defensible position from which to launch a potentially decisive attack on the Allied centre. However Napoleon was too late - by this time Blücher and the Prussian army had arrived on the battlefield and the outnumbered French army was defeated.
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| La Haye Saint after the Battle by Talliou |
I was just expecting a hill or a tree or something, but this is way above what I expected! Thank you NT RABBIT! Nothing is broken
This page goes into great detail of the battle and fighting that happened- if you've seen Sharp's Waterloo, when the Prince of Orange ordered a Battalion to reinforce and retake the building, and twice let them get cut to pieces by French Heavy Cavalry...this was that building complex.
Useful for any 28mm battle, historical, fantasy, The Silver Bayonet, World Wars or 40k. The roofs and stories come off so I can do interior battles. The buildings were 3D printed from https://www.printablescenery.com/product/the-farm/
Thank you, Goonsir!
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