The Waterloo Companion: Might have some useful info?

[currieboy]

Hai guys, I have a book called the Waterloo Companion which, as the name suggests, is an encyclopaedia of Waterloo and the 'technical' bits of it.

It has some pretty good drawings of uniform and weapons for ALL units at waterloo and has pretty  much every piece of info you could want. I was wondering if the mod devs need any info or anything that they can't find anywhere else? If it has something useful then it would be a shame to waste it, other wise just tell me to bugger off and I shall. ^^

 

[marchal davout]

Keep it so we can get some idea's for reconstructions of important moments in waterloo

 

[hherlev]

Could you perhaps scan some pages, and upload them as a spoiler here?

 

[Admiral]

Thank you very much for you readiness to help  No need to scan anything though, I have both Waterloo and Trafalgar Companion, and Gettisburg Companion will be passed to me within a few weeks The former two are the best napoleonic books I've ever had exept for Napoleon's army by Oleg Sokolov.

 

[Ducksrulez]

Could you perhaps scan some pages, and upload them as a spoiler here?

im pretty sure thats illegal

 

[ionuttzu]

Could you perhaps scan some pages, and upload them as a spoiler here?

im pretty sure thats illegal

Like anybody else than the publishers care of some pages from a book being scanned and posted on a forum

 

[Niftyeye]

Could you perhaps scan some pages, and upload them as a spoiler here?

im pretty sure thats illegal

Like anybody else than the publishers care of some pages from a book being scanned and posted on a forum

Actually, yes they do.

Ever heard of copyright?

 

[ionuttzu]

Could you perhaps scan some pages, and upload them as a spoiler here?

im pretty sure thats illegal

Like anybody else than the publishers care of some pages from a book being scanned and posted on a forum

Actually, yes they do.

Ever heard of copyright?

Yes I did. But you gotta take into account the fact that they won't find out and probably won't bother to do anything if pages from a book are scanned and posted on a forum a lot of people haven't heard about. The pages are gonna be read and not used in any way in the game so it wouldn't appear in the mod or some **** that would result in the devs getting sued. So all's fine, it would be even better if he would just PM the scanned pages, that way there would be no problem.
Also who are you talking about by "they", the publishers of the book? Cause if you meant that then I said that the publishers are the only ones who would care of this.

 

[Nikolai Alexandre]

They can't take away our RIGHTS to see PAGES of a BOOK it's about FREEDOM FOR SPARTAN POWER?!!!!!!!!???!

Just post everything you want up and get free music and illegal games, don't make them richer!

 

[Aethelbert]

books are for sharing, also how old is this book? maybe the author has died and copyright no longer exists?

 

[currieboy]

Also. if clans or anything want the 'actual' tactics etc then it has pretty detailed explanations of what they did.

Ill scan some pages at school tomorrow. A few maps, drawings etc. Maybe I'll send the author an Email and ask if it's ok, it's a pretty new book.

EDIT; It's 300+ pages so specific things would make it easier, and cheaper

 

[Kator Viridian]

I find it quite funny you think the laws of copyright work rather untangably. Copying pages IS illegal, otherwise you could take a book copy the hell out of it and give it a slight different title and hand it out as your own.

Copying the pages would be illegal, handing the title of the book is not.

 

[currieboy]

Here's the contents page so I know what people might want. Just post any you are interested in:


Prologue
The Eagles Return

The Campaign
General Situation in Europe- March 1815
Situ' facing Napoleon - March/April 1815
''  '' Wellington
''  '' Blucher

Orders of Battle
General
Overall Strengths at Waterloo
Anglo- Allied Strengths
French Strengths
Prussian strengths
Casualties at waterloo
Comparisons

Command and Control
General
Biographies of every commisioned officer at Waterloo

The Battlefield
General
Key Terrain Feature
Villages
Farms and other buildings
Other Features
The condition of the battlefield
Army deployments

Infantry
General
Anglo- Allied
Prussian
French

Cavalry
General
Anglo-Allied
French
Prussian

Artillery
General
Types of Ordnance
Ammunition
Factors affecting arty usage and effectiveness
Anglo-Allied
Prussian
French

Other Arms and Services
Engineers and Pioneers
Wounded and Medical services
Supply services

The Highlights
General
Hougoumont
D'Erlon's I Corps Attack
French Cavalry attacks on Anglo-Allied squares
La Haie Sainte
Plancnoit
Imperial Guard's final attack

Myths and Controversies
Kinda useless

After the battle
Wellington
Blucher
Napoleon










All of these have illustrations to go with them.
There a drawings of uniforms for every regiment coming to.
The various sections go into alot of detail so be as specific as possible, both to save time and so people don't get the entire book free.
There are some photos of the area as it is now, ill upload them.
MAPZ! Lots of them.

 

[Royal_Marine_Machine]

Could you perhaps scan some pages, and upload them as a spoiler here?

im pretty sure thats illegal

Like anybody else than the publishers care of some pages from a book being scanned and posted on a forum

Actually, yes they do.

Ever heard of copyright?

Actually under the laws of Copy Right in most cases it would be legal to scan a page or two under the *mind blank* use legislation.

However only litterally a Page or Two, so no, you couldn't upload the whole book

 

[marchal davout]

Thank you very much for you readiness to help  No need to scan anything though, I have both Waterloo and Trafalgar Companion, and Gettisburg Companion will be passed to me within a few weeks The former two are the best napoleonic books I've ever had exept for Napoleon's army by Oleg Sokolov.

@ Admiral. Do you think this mod will continue on to the American Civil War??

 

[Admiral]

@ Admiral. Do you think this mod will continue on to the American Civil War??

I have no idea I've ordered it because of my personal interest in CW