welcome to my site!
My name is Rafael Pardo, I live in Valladolid (Spain) and this
website is devoted to a hobby which I started around 1980:
Wargaming with Napoleonic miniatures. The site was down
for quite some time due to issues with the previous hosting provider, but
is now hosted on ARSYS and is back
up and running again.
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 or combat, I
research for the strategical and tactical situations, find the maps
of the zone, paint the necessary 20 mm or 1/72 plastics or metallic
miniatures (if not available from previous battles), design the
adequate table-top and eventually, I write a Scenario.
Depending on the size of the battle or combat, I use different
rule-sets. If the battle is medium or large involving several Army
Corps, I use Napoleon's Battles
(now in its 4th Edition). If it is a
small battle or combat, fought by a pair of Divisions, I use
Lasalle from Sam Mustafa and if
it is a skirmish I use Song of Drums and
Shakos.
Additionally, in this site you will find very different game-related
things: painting and conversion of miniatures, the making of scenery
items (buildings, rivers, roads...), Scenarios for the above cited
rule-sets, thoughts about solo playing mechanisms, descriptions of
the small number of boardgames I use, and two
Cyberboard
game-boxes for 'War to the Death' and 'Napoleon's Leipzig Campaign'
OMEGA old boardgames.
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 re-born
Operational Studies Group. See it at 'The
Leipzig Project'
page or visit the
PROJECT LEPIZIG blog.
Professionally, I am retired from my position as Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University
of Valladolid (Spain). In addition to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, my research focused on
the development and determination of heavy metals and emerging contaminants in environmental matrices
(water, soil...) and on the application of multivariate chemometric methods for information extraction.
Like the vast majority of serious and independent researchers, I think that global warming and climate change
are real and 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.
Enter, enjoy and come back again!
