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It combines elements of economics, politics, and military strategy. The map for the game was illustrated by the artist Paul Niemeyer. [1] There are seven major playable nations in the game: France, Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and the Ottoman Empire. During the game, countries are given time relative to their historical ...
While he found the game reasonably suited to small unit actions in the 1700–1850 era, "it is a trifle antiquated compared to [more recent wargames], and the very limitation of the unit size prevents simulationa of most of the major battles of the Napoleonic era. A further limitation is imposed by the map, which has no rivers and few hills." [4]
Waterloo is a Napoleonic board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1963 that simulates the Battle of Waterloo.It was one of the first board wargames produced and despite its lack of historicity and complexity, it still received positive comments more than twenty years later as a fun and playable game, and remained in Avalon Hill's catalogue until 1990.
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).
Age of Napoleon is a 2003 war and strategy board game created in collaboration between Mayfair Games and Phalanx Games. [1] It focuses on the Napoleonic Wars in Europe from 1805 to 1815. The game's designer is Renaud Verlaque and its artist is Franz Vohwinkel.
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 scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...
The battle was the culmination of the German Campaign of 1813 and involved 560,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of 400,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 133,000 casualties, making it the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, and the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I.