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23/VI/2009

First birthday of
ALKAID EDITIONS

   
   

My name is Rafael Pardo, I live in Valladolid (Spain) and this web-site is devoted to my main hobby which I started around 1980: Wargaming with Napoleonic miniatures. Is a very interesting and absorbing world, being related with fields such as military miniatures (painting, converting....) dioramas and scenics, boardgames and last, but not least, military History.

I play solo (solitaire, alone) by necessity and preference and my games are usually projects based around a Battle or Campaign of the Napoleonic era. After choosing the battle, I research for the strategical and tactical situations, find the maps of the zone, paint the necessary 20-mm or 1/72 plastics miniatures (if not available from previous battles), design the adequate table-top and eventually, I write a Scenario to fight the battle with Napoleon's Battles, the rule-set I use from the last ten years, now in its 3rd Edition!.

So in this site you will find very different things: painting and conversion of miniatures, the making of scenery items (buildings, rivers, roads...), Scenarios for Napoleon's Battles, thoughts about solo playing mechanisms, descriptions of a small number of boardgames I use to and a Cyberboard game-box for 'War to the Death" boardgame.

Watch my simultaneous wargaming project, the Campaign of Leipzig (autumn 1813). The final goal is the joint use of Napoleon's Battles and the boardgames 'Four Lost Battles' and 'Napoleon at the Crossroads' of the now defunct Operational Studies Group. See it at 'The Leipzig Project' page or visit  the PROJECT LEPIZIG blog.

Another Project going now is ALKAID EDICIONES, an editorial effort based around ALKAID multithematic magazine (in hard paper!). Until now (june 2009), we have published several Napoleonic papers devoted to the Spanish Guerra de la Independencia (a.k.a. the Peninsular War), from authors such as Rory Muir, M.A. Martín Mas and M.A. García García.

The magazine is accompanied by an internet portal and some FORUMS, one of these is devoted to Wargaming with Napoleon' Battles., and other related topics (painting, miniatures, resources...). You will be welcome!

At last, in the real world I am professionally, university professor and scientist. My research activity focusses mainly on environmental topics. I, like the vast majority of scientists, think that global warming is real  and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence. There is no doubt we can solve this problem and we have a moral obligation to do so.
Visit the Inconvenient Truth site and take action!.

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A summary of the last thing: The battle of Lindenau
 
 
 
Napoleon Miniatures  
 
 
 
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