And here it is, the last podcast of the year :
https://anchor.fm/homo-ludens9/episodes/October--November-22-Cultural-debrief--Collective-review-of-Napoleon-1806-e1sofp2As usual
@joedewhurst talk a lot of nonsense in the intro, but we also cover games such as John Company (and Unmatched).
In the second part
@DrCrossbows and I deep dive into Napoléon 1806 from Shakos, enjoy!
October + November 22: Cultural debrief & Collective review of Napoleon 1806 by Homo Ludens Podcast
A Homo Ludens podcast exclusive episode where we talk about somewhat wargame related stuff we did in October and November 2022.
Part 1: 00:00 - discussion about things we watched, read and played for those two months, with Joe Dewhurst.
Watched: Glitch, Wednesday, Pinocchio, Andor...
Played: John Company, SpaceCorp, The British Way, Unmatched...
Interlude: 01:00:25 Jazz Emu - The True Meaning of the Season
Part 2: 55:14 - Collective review of November's “Club de jeu” game, Napoléon 1806, released by Shakos Games, designed by Denis Sauvage.
Guests for the discussion: Stuart Ellis-Gorman.
Outro: 01:48:58 Anna Von Hausswolff - Thatre of Nature
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Donnerschlag Teach & Play with Patrick Gebhardt
Matt Calkins, designer of Sekigahara & Charioteer, will be live on Homo Ludens in 30 minutes :
https://youtu.be/ExWZEX1zEpw
Matt Calkins - From Sekigahara to Charioteer, a decade of historical game design
Working on something secret, but we're among us here, right? 🤫
And let's conclude with Sapper Tactics, a powerful Versailles military event.
This card represents how the Versailles troops developed new tactics during the Bloody Week to remove barricades, the main defensive asset of the Commune, using the buildings to shoot from upper floors down on defenders & using explosive from the inside of the building to destroy parts of the barricades.
1871 was the last time that barricades would be used as a viable insurrection strategy in the capital.
Now let's have a look at Louis Rossel, arguably one of the most talented officers of the Commune.
Trained at the "Prytanée militaire", Rossel is one of the few members of the Commune with formal Military training.
When appointed Minister of War he will desperately try to rationalise the Commune's line of defence by regrouping artillery in strategic points and building new barricades.
He'll resign a couple of weeks before the Bloody Week, despaired by the long deliberations of the Commune .
The Versailles government was outraged and used this event for propaganda to increase political tension. In a lot of ways, this is similar to what happened 150 years later with all the debates about statues surrounding the Black Live Matters movement.
After the Commune, Courbet was condemned to pay the costs of rebuilding the monument. He fled to Switzerland 🤣
For the last 6 weeks we've been play testing some extra cards for RFOP. I wanted to show a couple of them here.
Let's start with "La colonne Vendôme". Built in 1806-10 it was commissioned to celebrate Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz. During the Commune, painter Gustave Courbet argues that the monument is a tribute to chauvinism and warmongering and therefor should be disassembled and preserved in the Hôtel des Invalides.
