Yeah, but if you COULD?

[getagrip]

I've been following Paul's Turkish project (via Mr Jackson) and it got me to wondering...

If you could, I mean REALLY COULD (money and time and space were absolutely NO obstruction; 70+ million on the Lottery for instance), which battle would you want to create at 1:1?

Mine would be Minas Trirth (which I have managed at 20:1) or Helm's Deep.  Both battles stick in my mind from reading Rings as a kid.

If it were a real battle it would have to Kursk.  Surely the ultimate tank battle?

So, what's yours and why?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Mars-La-Tours!

[getagrip]

Ooh, aren't we clever

Forgot to say why smarty pants

[Fenton]

Probably the Battle of Tannenberg

I would want to do it for the same reason Will wants to do

Mars-La Tours!

[Ithoriel]

The fields of Guedena (approx 2430 BC), probably the first historical battle in that it's the first we have a historical record of. Though details are so sketchy I'd not only need the time, money, etc you mentioned but a time machine to send a drone back to record the action!

Borodino (1812) would be second choice.

Tennoji (1615) third.

[Leman]

Mars la Tour - same reason as Will

[fsn]

Oooooooohhhh!

Operation Market-Garden. What a mix of late war forces! It's long been a battle that intrigues me, especially from a "what if?" point of view. What would have happened if they had seized that corridor? Could the war have been over by Christmas? Personally, I doubt it, but it would be fun to game.

I think we could manage that now with Pendraken, but for the second time I win the lottery I would go for ...

Waterloo. Bit obvious, but it's one of those battle that get more fascinating the more I read about it. Not only that, but to see what all those 2 and 3 rank units lined up would be spectacular.

Then third lottery win (these things come in threes don't they) would be the Anabasis, the March of the 10,000. I first read Xenophon when I was about 16. Our school had a library and the librarian there was a conduit through which I could buy Penguin Classics ("are you sure you want Thucydides?). The first I bought was Herodotus, the second Xenophon.

[Ithoriel]

Probably the Battle of Tannenberg

Which one? 1410, 1914 or 1944?

[Fenton]

1914, but if I won the lottery I could stretch to all three I think

[getagrip]

Someone going to explain Mars La Tours to me?

Big battle, but why so enticing?

[getagrip]

Oooooooohhhh!

Operation Market-Garden. What a mix of late war forces! It's long been a battle that intrigues me, especially from a "what if?" point of view. What would have happened if they had seized that corridor? Could the war have been over by Christmas? Personally, I doubt it, but it would be fun to game.

Imagine what you could do with the tabletop

Cracking idea

[Fenton]

Someone going to explain Mars La Tours to me?

Big battle, but why so enticing?

Well it was in space and one of the commanders was Frances de la Tour who was great in Rising damp.

Whats not to like?

[Leman]

Re. Mars la Tour - if you don't get it you'll never get it, so focus on another battle for yourself.

[getagrip]

Re. Mars la Tour - if you don't get it you'll never get it, so focus on another battle for yourself.

Don't do all the march march, pop pop stuff.

Well it was in space and one of the commanders was Frances de la Tour who was great in Rising damp.

Whats not to like?

Coat!

[Ithoriel]

Imagine what you could do with the tabletop

Cracking idea

Using 1:600 scale figures you'd only need a table 3km long for Market Garden