This is the Bill Leeson´s reprint of the English translation of von Tschischwitz game, originally published in 1862. The game asks for at least 3 players, one acting as umpire, of a war scenario set previously by this same umpire. 3 sets of maps are used; one for every team with limited information and an overall one for the umpire with the position of...
This small volume contains twelve scenarios to accompany the von Reisswitz Kriegsspiel Rules and the Meckel Map. In addition to the basic scenarios initial orders are also provided for the Red side in each case. The idea behind supplying orders for one side is that it might allow a gamer who, through circumstance or design, is gaming solo. The importance...
Kriegsspiel is a modern revision of the original Kriegsspiel rules. The game retains the basic elements of Kriegsspiel that make the game so remarkable, such as double-blind play, umpired, simultaneous resolution of orders, delayed order implementation, dispatch transmission, and emphasis on fog of war. The game is simple and easy to learn, and features...
Kutuzov is an interactive, play it complete in one-sitting card-driven game of sweeping manoeuvres, epic battles, storied sieges, lethal attrition and crucial-to-win troop morale for one to four players from the designer of The Napoleonic Wars and Wellington. In the spring of 1812 Emperor Napoleon of France gathered the regiments of 20 nations together...
L'Aiglon ou le Lys is a generic wargame at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. "Blue" against a coalition of "Grey" and "Yellow". The rules are based on those of "1812: Les Arapiles" published in a previous issue of Casus Belli. Published in three parts: Casus Belli (Issue 43 - Feb 1988) and Casus Belli (Issue 44 - Apr 1988) for the 2 part map, Casus Belli...
After the failure of Napoleon´s attempted takeover of Spain in early 1808, with a crushing defeat at Bailén in July with the surrender of a whole Corps under Dupont, plus defeats also at the sieges of Gerona, Zaragoza and Valencia, the French armies were almost back to their border, the Spanish army on the move, and a British army had landed in Portugal...
"For all Frenchmen of courage, the time has come to conquer or die" With these words Napoleon launched 125,000 men across the Belgian frontier . . . . L'Armée du Nord for his final campaign: Waterloo. Man for man they were arguably the best troops he had ever commanded. They were the veterans, chosen from among the half a million men that answered the call...
(from the box:) La Bataille D'Albuera Espagnol is a simulation of the hardest fought battle of the Peninsular War. The battalions of Imperial France , pitted against a desperate coalition of Spanish, Portuguese and British troops, must rid the field of their enemies, thereby lifting the siege of Badajoz, capitol of Estremadura. All of western Spain hangs...