“Two-player card game of Napoleonic Warfare." Each player starts with 100 points of troops. The object of the game is to reduce the opponent's troop total to zero. Troop casualties are inflicted by playing melds during the Attack Phase. The players share a common deck. The deck contains ten suits: Infantry Units, Infantry Weapons, Cavalry Units, Cavalry...
[From the back of the Manual] Take control of the great battles of the 18th and 19th centuries with Volley & Bayonet. Created by the people who brought you Command Decision, Volley & Bayonet gives you the ability to recreate the full scope of the epic battles of the black powder era. Each turn represents one hour on the battlefield but can be played in...
[from back of cover] ...is a Volley & Bayonet scenario book covering the famous campaign of 1809. It provides: - historical background on the five battles of Sacile, Piave, Raab, Aspern-Essling & Wagram. - complete scenarios for all five battles. - a rules update to refine Volley & Bayonet for Napoleonic Warfare. - an extensive look at all the armies and...
(from the manual :) Napoleon Returns is a Volley & Bayonet scenario book covering history's most famous campaign. It provides: - historical background on the four battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, Waterloo & Wavre. - complete scenarios for all four battles. - a Campaign System which allows you to re-fight history's most famous campaign. - a rules update to...
Volley & Bayonet Road to Glory is an updated version of the Volley & Bayonet black powder miniatures rules. As with the previous version, the emphasis is on gaming entire battles of the black powder era. While the emphasis of this edition is the Napoleonic period, rules are given for gaming the entire black powder era (approximately 1700-1890). Each stand...
From the games intro:- WAR IN NAPOLEON’S TIME Dickens & Greenwood Games are not historical simulation games, such as you may have seen. They are historically based, in that they recreate the military capacities of a given era in the history of warfare, but they are abstract. They do not restrict the player to the circumstances of a given campaign, or to...
W1815 is a simple strategy game that simulates the key events of the battle of Waterloo in 15 minutes. The French side can try a number of different strategies in an attempt to crush the Anglo-Allied army before the Prussians arrive. Meanwhile, the Anglo-Allied player must focus on keeping his army in the battle by using reserves in right situations until...
Wachau 1813 is a simulation of the October 16th battle that took place south of Leipzig, pitting Schwartzenberg's Bohemian army against a large portion of the Imperial Army in Napoleon's hands. By managing to maintain a numerical superiority at this point on the front before all the coalition armies reunite in the following days, the Emperor can hope to...
An SPI Quad game containing four separate Napoleonic battles: Marengo (subtitle: Napoleon in Italy, 14 June 1800) Jena-Auerstadt (subtitle: The Battle for Prussia 14 October 1806) Wagram (subtitle: The Peace of Vienna, 5-6 July 1809) The Battle of Nations (subtitle: The Encirclement at Leipzig, 16-19 October 1813). The simple rules comprise just four sides...
Wagram is a simulation of the battle which took place between the armies of the Hapsburg Empire under Archduke Charles and the French-Allied armies under Napoleon on July 5th and 6th, 1809. One on four games included in the Napoleon At War QuadriGame. The games in this set are based on the Napoleon At Waterloo system which is a basic movement-combat system...
(from Battles website:) Wagram 1809 simulates one of Napoleon's greatest victories. After the troubling defeat at Essling on 22 May 1809, and still holding Vienna, Napoleon needed to renew his confidence and finish the campaign. For the second time, Napoleon crossed the Danube to meet the force of Archduke Charles. This time, however, preparations for the...