The Battle of Waterloo is perhaps the best known battle in history. The time is 18 June 1815. The Duke of Wellington's armies are drawn to defend the road to Brussels. Napoleon's superior French forces begin their assault. Can the British thin red line hold until the Prussian army arrives to fall upon Napoleon's flanks? A simple introductory wargame. This...
Napoleon's End presents four battles on the Seine, February-March 1814. BATTLES SIMULATED The first of the four battles occurred on the 17th and 18th of February: Mormant took place 3 days after the Battle of Vauchamps, covered in "La Patrie en Danger." The last two battles were fought in late-March: Arcis followed 8 days after Reims, from "Napoleon...
Napoleon's First Battles simulates four early battles from the French Republican era, namely, "Montenotte", "Arcola", "The Pyramids" and "Marengo". There are a basic and an advanced game. The wargame utilises the standard CRT (Assault Combat Result Table) which includes disruption. An elan rating is included to show the capability of a unit to close with...
Napoleon’s Last Gamble contains five battles from the Waterloo Campaign, which Napoleon began by seizing the central position between the Prussian and British Armies. On June 15th the Grande Armée was unleashed across the Sambre River. Allied screening forces sent out the warning to headquarters. The Allies executed a forward concentration behind the cover...
Napoleon's Wheel 1805: Danube Campaign I Scenarios depicted: Ulm — Napoleon's Wheel, 9-15 Oct. Dürenstein — Kutuzov's Trap, 11 Nov. Schöngrabern — Bagration's Rearguard, 16 Nov. Austerlitz — The Battle of Pratzen and Sokolnitz, 1-2 Dec. Napoleon's Wheel is the next games from OSG's The Library of Napoleonic Battles series. Details on the series are below...
This historical game simulates a battle that took place on the 14th of June, 1800, in Marengo (northern Italy) between the army of the Austrian Empire, led by General Melas, and the French Republican army, led by General Bonaparte. The game system is designed to be of medium complexity while remaining historically accurate. The rules, the map, the combat...
On June 18, 1815, one of the most decisive battles in military history was fought in Belgian fields twenty miles southeast of Brussels. Within a short 100 days, Napoleon, former emperor of France, had returned from exile on the island of Elba, again seized power, quickly assembled an army, and marched to defeat the dispersed British and Prussian armies now...
"Narvik 1940" is a wargame for two players that simulates the tactical combats around Narvik in May and June 1940 between the French (Mountain troops*, ski scouts and legionaries) and the Germans (mountain infantry, sailors from sunken destroyers, and paratroopers). The rule is an evolution of the system En Pointe Toujours (At the Cutting Edge). Several...
The Berlin Crisis was the culmination of a series of events that heated up the Cold War. Following the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the inconclusive Vienna Conference, Khrushchev saw Kennedy as a weak and inexperienced leader. He used this as an opportunity to solve the unresolved and aggravating problem: Berlin. East Germans were escaping to the West weekly by...
Often misquoted as "the monster game of modern warfare", NATO Division Commander is a much-maligned SPI WWIII title that, because of being widely misunderstood, is often more studied than played. Described in the rules as a "battalion level simulation of conflict in contemporary Europe", NATO Division Commander gradually introduces players to the most...
World War III as it might have been... An alternative-history simulation of a war which occurs in a world where Nazi Germany survived the Second World War and decided to make another stab at planetary domination in the early 90s. They are opposed by an alliance of North Atlantic democracies. The game is a two-player operational/strategic level game that...
"NATO, Nukes & Nazis: The Lutwaffe Strikes!", published by XTR inside the issue #10 of his "Command" wargaming magazine, is an expansion for the alternative-history simulation wargame "NATO, Nukes & Nazis". In this variant the German economy of the "NNN" world did better during the 1980's than what was first postulated in the original wargame: this...