welcome to my site!
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 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.
At last, in the real world I am chemist, university professor
and scientist. My research activity focusses on environmental topics such heavy metals or
emergent pollutants. Like the vast majority of serious and independent researchers, I think
that global warming is 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!
