Bicenntennial re-enactment of Waterloo on LIVE

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**Frazzled**

Has this been posted yet? Supposedly the largest re-enactment in Europe.

https://www.waterloo2015.org/en

starts in ten hours
https://www.waterloo2015.org/en/news/live-streaming

**Ghazkuul**

Kinda cool, I loved reading about this battle. on the other hand a bunch of dudes pretending to be soldiers from the 1800s......kinda boring.

I can say that with certainty having watched a civil war re-enactment once and having wanted to kill myself for going.

**kronk**

Frazzled wrote:
Has this been posted yet? Supposedly the largest re-enactment in Europe.

https://www.waterloo2015.org/en

starts in ten hours
https://www.waterloo2015.org/en/news/live-streaming

Waterloo 2, Electric Waterloo?

**Frazzled**

Ghazkuul wrote:
Kinda cool, I loved reading about this battle. on the other hand a bunch of dudes pretending to be soldiers from the 1800s......kinda boring.

I can say that with certainty having watched a civil war re-enactment once and having wanted to kill myself for going.

Some of Frazzled family took part in Waterloo Reenactment 1 on the losing side (trying to hold off the Prussians-steenking Prussian gringoes) and decided to get out of Dodge (Europe).
Vive le ME!

**Ghazkuul**

Frazzled wrote:
Ghazkuul wrote:
Kinda cool, I loved reading about this battle. on the other hand a bunch of dudes pretending to be soldiers from the 1800s......kinda boring.

I can say that with certainty having watched a civil war re-enactment once and having wanted to kill myself for going.

Some of Frazzled family took part in Waterloo Reenactment 1 on the losing side (trying to hold off the Prussians-steenking Prussian gringoes) and decided to get out of Dodge (Europe).
Vive le ME!

I knew you were part french :-P

**Henry**

Ghazkuul wrote:
on the other hand a bunch of dudes pretending to be soldiers from the 1800s......kinda boring.

One thing I've learned from having a niche hobby is to not slag off the hobbies of everyone else. Your hobby is kinda boring to most others as well.

**Wyrmalla**

So literally two hours of a really smoky camera lens and the odd bit of shouting? Weren't battles so bad back then that soldiers on both sides had to stop firing at some points and wait for all the powder smoke to clear so they could actually see the enemy? ...Though lot of good that did seeing as how inaccurate guns were back then (though tell that to that Civil War commander who stood up in a hail of shots declaring "those guns can't hit gak", or some form of that, only to be immediately hit in the face).

...I assume that Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars is going to see a spike in players because of this. Its coincidentally on sale right now.