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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.
Napoleon at Waterloo is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1971 that simulates the Battle of Waterloo. The game, which features simple rules, was designed as an introduction to board wargaming, and was given as a free gift with each subscription to SPI's Strategy & Tactics magazine.
Characterized as a "monster game" because of its large number of counters, this is a battalion-level simulation focusing on the Battle of Waterloo, with a 68" x 44" map of the seven-mile battle front (100 yards per hex), and 2000 counters. Rules are included to allow for battle formation tactics, skirmishers, and artillerists. [1]
That game was a success, and Dalgliesh designed War of 1812 in 1973, and Napoleon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 in 1974. These three games were the first block wargames, where units are represented by wooden or plastic blocks rather than the more traditional miniature soldiers or die-cut cardboard counters. [1]
The Thin Red Line is a two-player board wargame in which one player controls French forces under Napoleon and the other player controls Anglo-Allied forces under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. With 275 counters, a large hex grid map, and a 24-page rulebook, the game has been characterized as "of more than moderate complexity." [1]
La Belle Alliance: The Battle of Waterloo is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. It was one of four games that were published as part of the "quadrigame" (four games with a single set of rules) titled Napoleon's Last Battles , but was also released as an ...
Fields of Glory is a real-time strategy video game published by MicroProse for MS-DOS, Amiga (both AGA and ECS) and Amiga CD32 in 1993. In the game, players can re-enact the four major historical battles in Napoleon's Waterloo campaign (The Battle of Ligny, Battle of Quatre-Bras, Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Wavre), as well as play two hypothetical battles (Nivelles and Wagnee) which ...
1815: The Waterloo Campaign is a board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1975 that simulates the final three days of Napoleon's last campaign, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo. Reviewers characterized the game as not too complex, playable, fast-moving, and enjoyable. The game was found to be tilted in favor of the ...