Game of the Week - Oct 21 - 27

• Quatre Bras
• Ligny
• Wavre
• Waterloo

In addition to the historic battles, several hypothetical actions based on alternative approach marches are included. Several of these scenarios place the entire French Army against both the Anglo-Allies and the Prussians for one grand battle of annihilation. This version includes a further expansion package that was released after the original game was published and which greatly expands the Order of Battle, bringing in many forces for all nations that were active in the region but did not take place in the actual fighting. These additions bring many new "what if" situations into focus.

Many company-scale scenarios are also included, allowing you to dig down into low level details over the various major battles.

As with all titles in the Napoleonic Battles series, Campaign Waterloo includes both Scenario and Campaign editors that allow you to alter existing scenarios or create entirely new scenarios on your own. And with the master map covering a whopping 224,000+ hexes, there is ample room to create custom actions.

The game offers players a variety of presentation options: 3 2D views, 2 3D views and 3 different symbol sets to choose from when playing 2D. Screen shots of these various options will be included below.

For video content we have a couple of items. The first one is from Epic History:

And then SmartWargames has a review from about 2 years ago:

https://youtu.be/bP2it7hvSAY?si=xQuIBP5qiJ9Xmfuw

A great deal has been written about this campaign, and tempers still run hot depending on who you are talking to - 209 years later! We can hardly share more than a few books on this without stirring someone up... so here goes!

Chandler's "The Campaigns of Napoleon" is an excellent book covering the breadth of Napoleon's career, from "First Emergence" to the aftermath of his defeat at Waterloo:

Below are a couple other books that encompass the period:

Focusing more on the campaign at hand, we have:

For those who want to get into deep research on the topic, you may find Stephen Beckett's "Operations of the Armée du Nord: 1815" of interest. It is a compilation and analysis of French correspondence during the campaign. Note: The first volume is in English, the subsequent 4 volumes containing the transcriptions of the actual dispatches are in French.

And we will round it out with the 6 but soon to be 10-volume set by Pierre de Wit - "The Campaign of 1815":

And now for a few more screen shots from within the game. (All images can be clicked for full sized viewing.)

Finally, here's the Napoleonic Battles specific section on the Official WDS forums if you wish to discuss the game, or any games within that series.

And that brings us to the conclusion of today's post. There's literally hundreds if not thousands of hours of game play to be hand in this title - so what are you waiting for? Head on over to the Campaign Waterloo product page and pickup a copy for yourself! 

Vive l'Empereur!