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Austerlitz, subtitled "The Battle of Three Emperors, 2 December 1805", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1972 that simulates the Battle of Austerlitz between Napoleon's French forces, and the Austrian-Russian forces of the Third Coalition.
These video games take place during the Napoleonic Wars (1803 – 20 November 1815) that shook the foundations of Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Pages in category "Napoleonic Wars video games"
Napoleon's Last Triumph is a two-person wargame with 400 counters in which one player controls French forces and the other controls Austrian forces. Critic Jim Hind called this game "definitely on the big side", noting that unlike other wargames where only a portion of counters were on the map at any one time, most of this game's counters were on the map, increasing its size and complexity.
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "BOA is a Napoleonic simulation of introductory/medium complexity. Its mechanics are dated (and it shows) and it lacks a Napoleonic panache. Given the current state-of-the-art, BOA is not "art"! However, for the true Napoleonic buff, BOA may be of some entertainment ...
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.
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 ...
Napoleon's Last Battles, another quadrigame, was published the following year. It was designed by Kevin Zucker and Jay Nelson, with cartography and graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen , and proved to be one of SPI's most popular quadrigames, [ 2 ] reaching No. 5 on SPI's Top Ten Bestseller List the month it was released. [ 3 ]
Napoleon at Leipzig is a two-player wargame focused on the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, where Napoleon's French forces were surrounded by a force twice its size. [1] The game system uses an "I Go, You Go", alternating series of turns, where one player moves and attacks, followed by the other player. [3]