Instalments 2 and 3 from Grognard Simulations Incredible Courage: 100 Days series

Have added the latest titles from Grognard Simulations' Incredible Courage: 100 Days series, Ligny and Waterloo, to the Board Wargames page.

Image of W1815 map added to Waterloo page.

Some Useful Maps

PDF: https://www.waterloo2015.org/sites/default/files/map-waterloo-2015.pdf

Ligny interactive map

See more of this cartographer's work here: Cartographie de la campagne de belgique juin 1815

La Belle Alliance and the Waterloo Memorial - Know more..?

The press release and the Youtube trailer for Gerad Corbiau's 4D movie have me hoping this is ready for next month. If you have any more information please use the comment facility.

U&P Games share their innovative game with us.

U&P are a new company (certainly to us) and though they have only just entered the Wargames arena with their W1815, this super-quick playing games is already causing quite a stir.

We hope to have an image of the map soon.

See what happened at Mont Saint Jean Farm in June 1815

Dutch Tour Translations added - Nederlandse tournee transalations toegevoegd.

Dutch translations PDFS have been added to each battlefields page as well as to the Intro post above. With thanks to Eddy Claes. Met dank aan Eddy Claes.

Pratzen Editions Map Extracts added

Extracts from La Retour de l'Empereur have been added to the following pages:

• Waterloo
• Wavre
• Quatre Bras
• Ligny

New Waterloo Boardgame Map Extracts Added

Multiple extracts from Waterloo 1815, Fallen Eagles (Hexasim) and Waterloo 200 (VentoNuovo Games) have been added to the Waterloo page.

Our Latest Sponsor - Hexasim

Hexasim are a French wargames publisher. Their game Waterloo 1815, Fallen Eagles is available for pre-order and will be published in June.

Columbia Games Join Our List Of Sponsors

Columbia Games are the publisher of Napoleon - a game covering the Waterloo Campaign:

Extracts from Grognard Simulations Inc.'s Quatre Bras and Ligny added

New maps added for Quatre Bras and Ligny. These are the usual Rick Barber eye-candy.

La Bataille Map Extracts Added

Added extracts from La Baitaille de:

• Ligny
• Mont Saint Jean
• Wavre

From the series of games by Clash of Arms

Pratzen Editions join our list of Sponsors

 

Pratzen Éditions produce Le Retour de l'Empereur, part of their acclaimed Vive l'Empereur series, which individually covers all four battlefields of 1815.

Remaining (Nov 2014) Wavre Photos Uploaded

Today we have finished adding the photos taken of the Wavre route during our trip in November 2014.

Welcome to Grognard Simulations Inc., our latest sponsor

Grognard are producing a series of games on the Waterloo Campaign - Incredible Courage: 100 Day. The first title will be Quatre Bras.

Against the Odds Magazine become our second sponsor

Today we're pleased to announce another sponsor of Walking Waterloo. Against the Odds are the publishers of Beyond Waterloo and La Garde Recule.

Various tidy up activities on the site.
More photos and maps on their way.

New Maps and First Sponsor

We have updated the Quatre Bras walking route. Adding Ferraris maps and images from L'Armee du Nord by Clash of Arms and Quatre Bras by Rick Barber.

We also welcome VentoNuovo Games - our first sponsor!

VentoNuovo produce the upcoming title Waterloo 200:

Waterloo and Quatre Bras Pages Updated

More updates to Waterloo, a newWavre route map, Hougoumont images and Quatre Bras waypoints added.

Quatre Bras Route Map Added

A new route map has just been added for Quatre Bras

Battlefield Route Text Added

The basic text is in place now for all four battlefields.

The next job is to add photographs (Waterloo and Ligny already have some)

Overview of Tour

We spent two and a (generous) half days exploring all four battlefields. We took our time and walked more than you will need to if you take the guidance from this article – that said, 2 ½ days is probably what we would recommend. This time allowed us to see much of the interesting remaining aspects of all the battlefields.

From a personal perspective Waterloo was, without a doubt, the most rewarding and, for me, Wavre was the least. But there is no doubt I am really glad of the comprehensive nature of my explorations and I am indebted to Karoly and Nathalie who acted as my hosts and, in the case of Karoly, my guide. Not only did Karoly drive me everywhere, his local knowledge and his ability to speak fluently with the locals provided me with a level of insight I could not have got alone – and hopefully this guide allows you to enjoy some of those benefits too.

The Other Walking Waterloo Blog

As mentioned in the header, the site is still under construction, but I'm still hoping to get it finished over the next few days.

It would be remiss not to mention another WalkingWaterloo blog: www.walkingwaterloo.blogspot.co.uk

These guys were around a long time before us but we'd bought our domain name before we realised they were here (the site wasn't originally envisaged as being a Blogger site). That said, hopefully the two blogs/sites will complement each other.

Welcome to Walking Waterloo

The site is intended for those visiting the site, whether for the bi-centennial in 2015 or at any other time.

The site is divided by battlefield and for each we provide a suggested route (with timings) a range of maps (including board wargame map extracts) and photographs. The photographs were taken in October 2014 as the Waterloo battlefield was undergoing significant renovation work in readiness for the 2015 bicentennial.

We will take you to a number of the major landmarks, but we’ll also try to point out other points of interest along the way. The route we take will combine car travel and walking. The guides were compiled in October 2014, when the sites were quiet. We have given the times that the journeys took us, but June 2015 will be MUCH busier, so please take that into account when planning your day.