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Mike Siggins reviewed Napoleon's Battles for Games International magazine, and gave it a rating of 5 out of 10, and stated that "quantity cannot replace quality and at the end of the day this is no more than a decidedly average set of miniatures rules with a few smart counters thrown in." [1]
Many soldiers on Napoleonic battlefields were coerced into staying in battle. To overcome their individual inclination to self-preservation and to provide effective firepower, the infantry regiments fought shoulder-to-shoulder, at least two or three lines deep, firing in volleys. The officers and non-commissioned officers carried swords and ...
Napoleon's Last Battles is a "quadrigame" — a box with four different battles played using the same rules. [1] This game covers the last four battles of Napoleon's final campaign of 1815: Ligny: The French and Prussians clash in the first battle of the Waterloo campaign.
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On 14 March, Schwarzenberg, becoming aware of Napoleon's presence in Reims, began again his advance and his advanced guard had reached Arcis-sur-Aube, when Napoleon intercepted it on 20 March. At the start of the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube , the Austrians were about 21,000 strong while the French fielded 20,000, however during the night of 20/21 ...
After the devastating defeat of Napoleon's Grande Armée in the Russian campaign of 1812, Johann Yorck – the general in command of the Grande Armée's German auxiliaries (Hilfskorps) – declared a ceasefire with the Russians on 30 December 1812 via the Convention of Tauroggen. This was the decisive factor in the outbreak of the German ...
List of battles of the War of the Fourth Coalition (9 October 1806 – 9 July 1807) List of battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition (10 April – 14 October 1809) List of battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition (3 March 1813 – 30 May 1814) List of battles of the Hundred Days (War of the Seventh Coalition) (15/20 March – 8 July / 16 ...
1815 is a two-player wargame in which one player controls Napoleon's forces, and the other the Allied forces arrayed against France. The game covers Napoleon's final battles in the three-day span from the Battle of Ligny to the Battle of Waterloo. The game is 49 turns long, but as critic William W. Easton noted, the game "is essentially simple ...