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    Quote Originally Posted by Historical Player View Post
    What was the largest reenactment in history for any war? I imagine it would be Civil War.
    I would say the largest I have ever seen was the Pickett's Charge scene from Gettysburg. They had thousands of extras for that one I believe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by [RG]Chewie View Post
    You are either told by a superior officer when to go down or you take a hit when you feel so inclined. IE if you are charging a dug in enemy and they let loose a nasty volley at fairly close range i will usually go down.
    Ah okay thanks for the info
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    Quote Originally Posted by SgtRithal View Post
    I would say the largest I have ever seen was the Pickett's Charge scene from Gettysburg. They had thousands of extras for that one I believe.
    Yea, that was massive!

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    Great stuff thanks.

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    Gettysburg (the movie) is small compared to some older movies.

    Spartacus used larger numbers of extras for the full size roman legions we see.

    Waterloo used many thousands of red army soldiers and lots and lots of horses for the battle sequences.
    (sort of needed back when there was no CGI)

    https://youtu.be/sWKk5Sy0JT8?t=17m34s




    The Gettysburg reenactment back in 1998 had some 23-26.000 reenactors and is still the largest ever in the US.
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    Quote Originally Posted by [RG]Chewie View Post
    You are either told by a superior officer when to go down or you take a hit when you feel so inclined. IE if you are charging a dug in enemy and they let loose a nasty volley at fairly close range i will usually go down.
    Our company did it by birth months. He would shout out a month and those whose month it was they would fall.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thomas aagaard View Post
    Gettysburg (the movie) is small compared to some older movies.
    Waterloo used many thousands of red army soldiers and lots and lots of horses for the battle sequences.
    If you are take movies into account, Waterloo def. takes the crown. War and Peace had a vast number of extras aswell, but I always had a hard time finding any info about the production, espacially the number of actors.




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