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Grenadier is a two-player wargame that presents sixteen historic battles [1] or, due to the small scale of the map, parts of battles. For example, rather than simulating the entire Battle of Waterloo, the game presents the attack of Napoleon's Old Guard against the center of the British line.
War and Peace was designed by Mark McLaughlin and published by Avalon Hill in 1980 in a boxed set with cover art by Denis Dighton.. After the demise of Avalon Hill, the rights to the game were acquired by One Small Step Games, which reprinted it in 2020, with a redrawn map and counters, and new scenarios of the Italian Campaign of 1796–7, the Egyptian Campaign of 1798 and the Marengo ...
Napoleon at Bay is a two-player wargame at the operational level that uses a set of rules developed by designer Kevin Zucker.The scenario folder also contains a historical narrative from Vincent Esposito's 1964 book The Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Battle of Nations is a two-player wargame in which one player takes the role of Napoleon, and the other controls the Coalition. It is a simple and easy-to-learn game, with only 100 counters, a relatively small 17" x 22" paper hex grid map scaled at 800 m (870 yd) per hex), and two rules sheets.
In addition, non-subscribers could get a free copy of the game simply by writing to SPI. [5] The game proved popular, and SPI immediately released the Napoleon at Waterloo Advanced Game Expansion Kit, which included an expanded set of counters, extra rules and more scenarios. [6]
Dunnigan used the rules from the second edition of Leipzig for two other Napoleonic games released in 1972, La Grande Armée, and 1812: The Campaign of Napoleon in Russia. As newer games with better rules entered the market, Leipzig fell out of favor. and in a 1976 poll conducted by SPI to determine the most popular wargames in North America ...
A year later, in Issue 17 of Phoenix (Jan–Feb 1979), Jeff Parker compared Napoleon's Last Battles and 1815: The Waterloo Campaign by Games Designers Workshop, two wargames published in 1976, and held both of them up as better Napoleonic wargames than previous products, saying, "Any collector of good boardgames who is also a student of ...
Napoleon's Last Campaigns is a two-player grand tactical wargame in which one player takes the role of Napoleon, and the other takes the role of the Allies. With only 72 counters, a small map and only 6 pages of rules, [2] this game has been characterized as "relatively simple."