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...
The game covers Napoleon's move on the way to Moscow but encountered severe resistance at Borodino. His aggression was stopped by the Russian Army and the winter effect. Strategy & Tactics magazine #32 game published by SPI in 1972. 100 counters (user comments:) This game is broadly considered to be one of the early classics of wargaming. Though a crude...
This game is a simulation of a real-world event. It is played on a map that is a simplified terrain reproduction of the actual battlefield, A grid of hexagons printed over the map is used to regulate movement much as the squares on a chess board. The pieces in the game represent the actual military units that took pare in the historical conflict. The large...
Marengo is an operational level simulation of the battle between Napoleon's French Army and the Austrian Army commanded by General von Melas, which occurred on June 14, 1800 in Piedmont (northern Italy). One of Napoleon's first important victories, the battle was decided by the opportune arrival of French reinforcements who robbed Melas of the triumph he...
Schwarzenberg with 200,000 men against Napoleon with 155,000, accepted the 4:3 odds and a chance to capture Napoleon's main base, breaking the agreed-upon Fabian strategy to avoid the battle with the Emperor in person, known as the Trachtenberg plan. BATTLES SIMULATED: The first of three battles, Löwenberg, took place two days before the Battle of...
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...
Description from the publisher: The Fate of Flanders was to be decided on the Sambre — Republican France against Imperial Austria. The decisive Battle of Fleurus led to the Austrian loss of Belgium. With the two armies clashing at Mont St Jean, the campaign gave the French Republic additional resources and manpower, opened the gateway to Germany, and the...
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...
Napoleonica is a hex-based wargame where history is mixed with fantasy. In this game you will have to lead one of the leading armies of the 18th century – French or the British Empire’s army – to confront the evil-stricken Legions of Abyss. Napoleonica: Steel and Magic combines the basic elements of a classic hexagonal wargame with a system for issuing...
Narvik is an Operational level board-wargame of the historical events surrounding the German invasion of Norway in the spring of 1940. Narvik is actually two games in one. The historical game faithfully recreates the situation and explores the alternatives open to the opposing field commanders. On the Strategic level, Narvik may be combined with the other...