Waterloo 200 game - part 4

 Napoleon doing his best to look dignified...

 ...and failing!

 Blucher arrives, having seen off Grouchy at Wavre

 Infantry Rgt. 25 was a late and very quickly painted addition.  I read that it was formed from the 1813 Lutzow Freikorps and many of the men still wore their black uniforms.

Doesn't this inn look familiar?  Turns out that Bell Alliance have a branch in Plancenoit.

Waterloo 200 game - part 3

The previous post saw everyone set up and ready to give battle.  Above are Brits (or KGL?) at (I think) Frichermont.  No sign of the French...

...but who's that in the distance?

Aha!

Everywhere I looked there seemed to be yet more French cavalry

A French column heading up the road to La Haye Sainte.  They even thought to bring ladders...

...and artillery

Hougoumont seemed well defended by Brits and Brunswickers

British  - well, Irish - and KGL cavalry on the Allied right

KGL artillery atop Mont St. Jean ridge

Some top-class wargames pointing determined life or death for some cavalry.

'Cannons' Carrick lays down a withering hail of matchsticks.