Battles of Napoleon is an epic game series that simulates the most famous battles of Napoleon on a tactical scale sharing the same basic rules. The series portrays the most important aspects of battles of the Napoleonic era with easy to learn and remember rules, intuitive mechanics and procedures. Players may focus on taking decisions and playing rather...
Battles of Napoleonic Europe: A Solitaire Wargame focuses on the Peninsular War with British, Portuguese, Spanish and German forces battling against Napoleon's French army. In the game, the Player will be commanding various units, often representing many hundreds of men each, seeking to achieve various Objectives. The aim of this book is to present a...
GMT’s The Battles of Waterloo covers four major battles during the Waterloo campaign: Mont Saint Jean, Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Wavre in one package, plus a campaign game. There are 3 maps included but only the campaign game needs all three. Scenarios require one to two maps. Game components include: 480 full-color two-sided counters; Three 22x34"...
Part one deals with the general principles of wargaming with miniature figures while the second part looks at wargaming particular periods from ancient to modern. Some of Featherstone's comments illustrate that the complexity vs. realism debate was not restricted to the board wargaming hobby: "If it is to be acknowledged that the game is the thing, to be...
"Bautzen 1813" is a game for two players that simulates the second battle day of Bautzen, the second main battle of the spring 1813 Napoleonic campaign. The 21st of May, The Emperor Napoleon assaulted the fortified positions of the Russo-Prussian army of Wittgenstein and Blücher. The total victory the Emperor needed depended on Marshall Ney, who however...
These are simple and straightforward Napoleonic rules for miniatures, based on orders’ counters placed on the table face down. Orders directly determine unit’s actions and combat outcomes. The rules are at Regiment’s level, the name by which units were known by Generals, therefore minutia pertaining to the Company and Battalion organization are not...
Miniature naval rules for the Age of Sail, 1775-1815. Includes die-cut 1/1200 ship counters, compass, turning and wind direction gauges, charts and battle logs. The rules include a detailed tactical ship-to-ship combat system and a simpler Fleet Engagement combat system. Ship statistics are included for America, Denmark, England, France, Russia and Spain -...
Beer & Pretzels: The Napoleonic Wars This rules set is designed for battalion-level Napoleonic war gaming engagements. Many 15mm wargames are extremely cumbersome to learn, need a lot of paperwork and require a long time to play. These rules are intended to provide a fast, fun game for both veterans and novice wargamers alike. Obviously, house rules can be...
Before Waterloo is a two-player strategic level simulation of the Napoleonic Campaign of 1814, extending the play of Beyond Waterloo with two campaigns. One, "La Patrie en Danger!", runs from January through April, 1814. Napoleon has been sent reeling from his second massive defeat in 2 years at Leipzig and must defend France from a now overwhelming...
This mid-19th century game is quite different from the asymmetric movement game of the same name. This is strictly a die-rolling game, albeit also asymmetrical. The board is a rectangular sheet of paper showing six artillery pieces behind earthworks firing at a multi-turreted castle. The castle walls are marked with 28 combinations of 2D6, some duplicated...