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Clash of Arms Games is a wargaming company best known for a high level of graphics quality and moderately to highly complex games, often focusing on the Napoleonic era, but with offerings in most eras of military history.
La Belle Alliance is a two-player wargame in which one player takes the role of Napoleon, and the other controls the Anglo-Prussian Alliance forces. It is a simple and easy-to-learn game, with only 100 counters, a relatively small 17" x 22" paper hex grid map, and two rules sheets.
The game uses the complex asymmetrical game system developed for SPI's 1976 monster Napoleonic wargame Wellington's Victory. [2] Although Ney vs. Wellington is a small game with only 255 counters — of which just 70 are the actual army units of both sides — the game has been characterized as "monstrously complicated".
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.
Napoleon at Leipzig is a two-player wargame focused on the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, where Napoleon's French forces were surrounded by a force twice its size. [1] The game system uses an "I Go, You Go", alternating series of turns, where one player moves and attacks, followed by the other player. [3]
But in La Grande Armee the differences between the Napoleonic army, the Frederician Prussian army, the ancien regime Austrian army of 1805, the new modeled Austrian army of 1809, and the cumbrous but tough Russian army are all reflected in different counter values and systems of building up as well as in differences in numbers and leaders. It ...
The reviewer warned that the 176-page rulebook would require "a serious investment of time and thought" but concluded that "Empire is the right choice for students of military history interested in a realistic simulation of Napoleonic warfare at the grand-tactical and tactical level." [2]
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 ...