Game of the Week, Aug 25 - 31

This week we return to the Napoleonic Era with Campaign Eylau-Friedland from the Napoleonic Battles series. It is on sale now through Sunday August 31st, for 25% off normal pricing.

In the Fall of 1806, Napoleon's "La Grande Armée" destroyed the Prussian army in a series of battles and pursuit actions. Pressing on to the east he decided to conduct a winter campaign in Poland. Facing him were the Russian army and the Prussian corps of Gen. Lt. L'Estocq. After the initial campaign in December, where his forces were unable to decisively defeat the Allies at the Battles of Pultusk and Golymin, Napoleon decided to put his army into winter quarters. The Russians, under the command of General Bennigsen, came out of winter quarters to engage in offensive operations and nearly defeated Maréchal Bernadotte's I Corps at Mohrungen. The Allies drove on Guttstadt and Allenstein but the French outmaneuvered them and the Allies were compelled to retreat. Following these actions the French army took the offensive and drove the Russians back on Eylau where both sides fought to a bloody draw. Both armies went back into winter quarters to emerge and engage once again in battle in June with the French army emerging victorious at Friedland.

Campaign Eylau-Friedland recreates the battles of the campaign in Poland of 1806-07. These were fought initially in the frozen countryside of Poland and East Prussia during the winter months of December through February and into the spring of 1807, culminating at the battle of Friedland on June 14th, 1807.

To read more about the historical background information and details on how the game was brought together, check out the Design Notes.

(All images can be clicked for full sized viewing.)

Campaign Eylau-Friedland includes 285 scenarios both for play against the AI and for Head-to-Head / Play by Email play. Many of the scenarios have both 15-minute and 10-minute turn versions.

The battles included are:

• Biezun
• Czarnowo
• Borokowo
• Kolozab
• Sochocin
• Golymin
• Pultusk
• Mohrungen
• Bergfried
• Hof
• Eylau
• Ostroleka
• Braunsberg
• Guttstadt
• Lomitten
• Spanden
• Deppen-Ankendorf
• Heilsberg
• Friedland

There is a wide sampling of variants and "what if" situations included as well. 

In addition to the stand alone scenarios, Campaign Eylau-Friedland contains four campaigns, both in 15-minute and 10-minute turn versions, which bring an additional ~113 scenarios into the mix.

Note: The version now available in the Store is the newest one: 4.09.2.

Here's a sampling of books on the topic which you might want to explore:

And a great book for an overall view of the entire Napoleonic Period:

Next, we have a series of videos on the conflict from various Youtube channels. We'll start with Epic History:

Then one from Kings and Generals:

And then The Mack has a 5-video series covering game play in this title. Here's the first one:

Finally, Historical Battles Wargamed Out has a multi-part series of videos on this title:

Here's some more in-game images for you to view. As with the entire Napoleonic Battles series (14 games + Demo), you have five different views to choose from. Three 2D and two 3D views, as well as three different sets of 2D icons.