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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.
Jena-Auerstadt is a two-player wargame in which one player takes the role of Napoleon, and the other controls the Prussians. It is a simple and easy-to-learn game, with only 100 counters, two rules sheets, and a relatively small 17" x 22" paper hex grid map scaled at 400 m (440 yd) per hex).
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 ...
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]
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.
The game comes with three main scenarios based on historical norms: [1] The full historical battle; A short game that ends when the Prussians arrive; An early start game; In addition, there are two "what if?" scenarios: [1] The Prussians fail to arrive; Free set-up: The players are free to set up their forces as they wish at the start of the game.
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.
In his 1977 book The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming, Nicholas Palmer noted the various rules that gave flavor to the game, including "possibly Austrian neutrality, defection of Napoleonic allies, and great emphasis given to leader counters. The strategic problems of long campaigns are covered with rules on supply, regrouping and ...