Napoleon at Bay: The Campaign in France, 1814 ‐ Avalon Hill edition (1983)
"Napoleon at Bay" is a division level, two-player simulation of the Campaign of 1814 which was one of Napoleon's finest.
He conducted this campaign with subtlety and lightning speed against heavy odds, attacking isolated enemy forces on advantageous terms.
This game shows Napoleon's skill in a classic use of interior lines, shifting to engage the combined armies of Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Game System:
Campaign System - Series
1 hex = 3,200m per hex
1,000 men per strength point
2 days per turn.
1983 Edition: 260 counters (includes 18 blanks)
Awards and Honors
1978 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game Nominee
Jena! ‐ English edition (1996)
Discern the Secrets of Napoleon's Greatest Maneuvers. "My God! Can these Frenchmen fly as well as fight?"
Jena! The name we give to one of the truly decisive campaigns in history; whereby the sons of the French Revolution under the command of emperor Napoleon Ier, meet and utterly destroy the heirs of Frederick the Great.
Five scenarios span the opening engagement at Saalfeld through the French victories of Jena and Auerstædt.
The Campaign Game opens with the French exiting the mountains of Franconia and Thuringia in a drive on Leipzig, hoping to knock the Saxons out of the opposing alliance.
Their cavalry probes ahead. They have no idea where the Prussians are, or their Russian allies.
At the same moment Brunswick directs three Prussian armies to drive across the supposed French line of communications.
As flank guards skirmish, the veil is lifted.
Both sides find their armies abreast one another heading in the opposite directions!
It is a race to see which army can adapt to the new circumstance quickest.
Napoleon has the edge, and it is what separates warfare of the 18th and 19th centuries from one another ... La Batallion Carre!
With Jena, like its predecessor L'Armeé du Nord: the Belgian Campaign 1815, players can come to full grip with the game in less than 12 pages of rules.
The playing surface varies by scenario and can be one, two or three 34" x 22" maps in size. Jena also includes 1 and 1/2 sheets of the most elegant, state-of-the-art playing pieces today.
The 6 Days of Glory ‐ English edition (1997)
On to Paris!
Napoleon in retreat, full.
Napoleon was defeated in the battle of Leipzig the previous year.
He was determined to make one last stand on the road to Paris.
Facing a coalition between Prussia under Blucher and Russia under Sacken, Napoleon caught them and was about to crush them in decisive battles before Paris in 6 days of February, 1814.
Designed by Hall of Fame Napoleonic game designer Kevin Zucker, developed by Paul Dangel, the game comes with a standard 22" x 34" map by Rick Barber showing mud and snowy ground at 1,700 yards per hex, 280 counters, mostly division size units.
One 24-pages rulebook with 6-pages of historical commentary by the designer and 1-page of Terrain Effects Chart included (hence the rules actually occupy only 17 pages).
The Six Days of Glory is an operational Napoleonic game. 3 short scenarios are included, covering the campaigns in three separate battles at three cities along the road to Paris: Champaubert (9~10 Feb); Montmirail (11~12 Feb) and Vauchamps (13~14 Feb), each playable in less than 1 ½ hours.
A campaign scenario linking all three (9~14 Feb) battles from the beginning to the end can be completed in less than 3 hours.
The French moves first in all scenarios.
The game has a standard command check – move – combat sequence with an additional night turn on each turn during which armies can force march to out maneuver the enemy.
Features include Chain-of-Command and Leadership Initiative, Artillery Bombardment, Supply and demoralization, Repulse at odds greater than 5-to-1, Movement across Pontoon Trains and Bridges (Allied only), and an interesting weather effect of forced mud on wheeled unit during the afternoon (PM) turn.
Team play is also possible where Allied command is divided between Prussian and Russian and thus communication between the two is not allowed unless written messages are exchanged.
Game System:
1,600m per hex
800-1,000 men per strength point
6 hours per game turn.
1807: The Eagles Turn East ‐ English edition (1994)
1807 - The Russians have abandoned Warsaw with the French in hot pursuit. Murat leads a triumphal entry into the ancient capital.
Napoleon knows that he is 400 leagues from Paris and on the threshold of a hard, eastern European winter, but he must have the opposite bank of the Vistula River if the campaign to be launched in the Spring is to have the best chance of success.
He orders Lannes to cross over....
Those who have made a study of valor and glory know whereof names such as Poltusk and Golymin speak.
They know that in 1807 the Eagles stained with their own blood the snows of East Prussia around the village of Preussisch-Eylau, and that they soared highest on the banks of the Alle, above the town of Friedland. Comrades, as the Eagles turn, shall we not follow?
Kevin Zucker expands his award winning series to include Napoleon's three campaigns in Poland; Poltusk-Golymin, Eylau and Friedland.
The game runs from the fall of Warsaw in December, 1806, through the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit in July, 1807.
A time which saw Napoleon and his Grande Armée reach the zenith of their combined power and glory.
1807: The Eagles Turn East comes with:
three 34" x 22" maps,
four Organization Displays,
420 playing pieces,
Standard and Exclusive Rules plus a Study Folder
for additional hours of enjoyment.
Vol. II of 'The Campaigns of Napoleon' series (The Emperor Returns, 1994, is Vol. I) including scenarios and campaign games for three campaigns in Poland: Pultusk-Golymin, Eylau and Friedland.
3,000m/ per hex
1,000 men per strength point
2 days per turn.
Napoleonic Battles: Austerlitz 1805 ‐ English edition (2007)
In December 1805, Emperor Napoleon I led about 67,000 men against about 75,000 Russian and Austrian troops near Brunn (modern Brno) in Bohemia, part of today’s Czech Republic.
The battlefield, divided by hills and streams, became known as Austerlitz and would be celebrated as Napoleon’s greatest victory.
After fierce fighting amid the morning mists, the sun broke through the clouds.
The French stormed the key Pratzen Heights, and after a bloody bayonet fight with the Russian troops manning the lines forced the Allied army into a disorganized retreat.
The 34"x22" map features not hexagons but irregular-sized areas which relate to the actual topography of the area being depicted.
198 counters in two sizes (2/3" square and 1 and 1/3"x2/3" long pieces) depict the infantry, cavalry, artillery units and the leaders so necessary in this activation system; the better leaders activate their troops more readily and more often.
This is a new rules set , bearing some resemblance to the earlier Napoleonic games by Avalanche Press, but also borrowing from their War of the States and Rome At War series.
Waterloo: The Fate of France ‐ English edition (2007)
Waterloo: Fate of France depicts Napoleon's climactic battle against the Allied armies gathered at Waterloo, June 16 through June 19, 1815.
This is a beautiful game printed on high quality paper throughout.
Contents:
• Standard L2 Design Group game box 12" x 15" x 1.5"
• 24x36" Heavy board, one piece map
• 2 die cut counter sheets, 5/8" counters
• 1 deck of tactical cards
• 12 battle board maps
• 1 CRT (Combat Results Table)
• 1 TEC (Terrain Effects Chart)
• 1 Blue die, 1 Red die, 1 Green die
• Rules Book
• Scenario Book
Brief description:
The area map runs from one area south of Charleroi to Brussels and from one area west of Nivelles to one area east of Wavre.
The units are 5/8" counters. Types include infantry, cavalry, artillery, horse artillery, and leaders. Sizes are divisions and brigades with step reduction.
There are 12 tactical battle maps. The 6 named maps are: Quatre Bras, Sombreffe, Genappe, Wavre, Waterloo, and Brussels. The 6 generic terrain maps are: Forest, Woods, Town, Road/Wooded, Clear, and River.
There are three one battle map scenarios: Quatre Bras (an introductory scenario that can be played in 60-90 minutes), Ligny (2-3 hours), and Mont St. Jean (3-4 hours).
The Campaign game runs from the morning of June 16 to the afternoon of June 19. There are three 5 hour day turns and one night turn per calendar day.