The Largest Wargame Ever Played?

Could this be the largest miniature wargame ever played? The British news media certainly believe so! In June 2019 organizers at the University of Glasgow staged a 120 player Waterloo game, fought with over 22,000 miniatures on 2,000 square feet of table space. Who put this event together? What rules did they use to play the game? Did the French manage to rewrite history?

[chrisca]

So, the battlefield is too big that you have an accidental fog of war. You are in your sector and then news from the other flank come, but you really dont know about that, if they managed to succeed or they were stopped, pushed back or captured, just like in real warfare xd

[stevefromwork]

This almost makes my own weird obsession, with playing and watching historical films and games in chronological order by date seem sane.

[HarroKitteh]

I love how odd the youtube recommendation is, I mainly watch gaming/history/car videos, I get this video recommended to me with 16k views on something I never knew existed. Sweet.

[DabaksolGuardPost]

"Total War was released at 2000"
"Meanwhile people at 1999"

[martinlaird]

You guys feel bad? I freaking study at the University of Glasgow and I missed this!!!😆

[muskratnik]

So when this disease is over, who wants to help me organize the American response. I'm sure we could get a civil war battle at this scale.

[godseth]

No One:
Before The Total war series was invented.

[Dingusdoofus]

Imagine the Battle of Kursk at this scale.

[PaulMclauchlin]

It was an outstanding event. They ran a study day on the Thursday before the game which featured lectures on the history of the battle, archaeology of the battle, weapons displays (which we got to handle) and Napoleonic era battlefield surgery. The fact that it was in aid of such a worthwhile cause was the icing on the cake.

[kevenpinder]

I'm not sure if it was larger, but there was a Mega-Borodino in 1992 in 15mm played in the Fort Meade gym. Three rows of tables and dozens of players. David Chandler flew over to make an appearance and observe. Wally Simon stood in for Kutuzov. He was restricted to a chair with a desk some distance back from the play tables, getting all info from despatches walked back to him. He rather famously fell asleep.

[_Matsimus_]

Why are we staring 90% at dudes talking. We want to see the damn

[biddyboy]

The National Army Museum in Chelsea has a room sized model of the battle created by an eye witness. They also have the skeleton of Napoleon's horse and standards captured on the day. Well worth a look if you are interested in this period of history.

[reggie_]

This could be the most epic battle of cadia in wh40k universe

[Warriorking.]

This is maddness, but it's wonderful! As a wargamer myself and knowing the effort required to properly plan a normal wargame, I have to admire all involved in this.

[UQuoZepplin]

I’m a Warhammer player and I’m so excited and impressed by this kind of thing! This is REAL war gaming ! Proper historical stuff! This is such a bit of me! Or at least “wannabe me!”

[truck]

We had one of these in Finland, I literally was the only one Who was under 15! I was 11 at that time and i actually destroyed 2 opponents before i got destroyed.

[panzer_v_panther]

Makes me wish I'd gotten into wargaming much sooner. This would have been a blast to have been able to watch in real time

[pablotheScot]

I was part of the Umpire team for this, we had people from all over, including New Zealand, umpiring. It was a great event - you should have been there!

[philRminiatures]

A most impressive table, difficult to see both ends...Superb!

[fellowcrusader]

Imagine other wars being played like this, like the civil war, or WW2. The thought of it delights me