Good find. I loved the comment about having found a new answer to what game to pick when Death challenges you to play a game for your soul.
Napoleon - The Waterloo Campaign 1815
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I believe I’ve played an early edition of this game about thirty years ago.
I really liked the battle board for that game because it had a left, center, and right column with reserves put in the rear.
It was fun playing and I’d recommend it. -
Just get the Avalon Hill version of the game. Its cheap and fun.
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Thanks CW and IL.
Tried to find an Avalon Hill version, but so far only found it “used” from the US, at $80, plus $33 shipping, plus import duties of course. Will look again when I have more time.
I did find other versions, though, such Command & Colors: Napoleonics, at £49.
There seem to be a variety of versions and I doubt CW can be sure which one he played?
Thanks again.
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I think it was was called “Napoleon”, and it was the waterloo campaign. It’s been over thirty years so I cant remember everything about it, but it was fun to play.
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What?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Napoleon-The-Waterloo-Campaign-1815-/252371576333?hash=item3ac284a60d:g:lKMAAOSwdGxXIrWg ( this is latter edition)
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the first link that IL provided is the game I played…it’s a cool game.
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That’s great. Thanks very much indeed Guys. :-)
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As a footnote, I’ve found that some of the Command & Colors Ancients and Commands & Colors Napoleonics games (which don’t in themselves interest me) come with small and large square wooden blocks in about a dozen different colours (if you pick and choose the appropriate sets). If you don’t attach the unit stickers to them, but instead leave them as plain wooden markers, you’ll end up with a large set of blocks in colours which correspond tolerably well (and in some cases very well) to the current A&A unit colours. There are even some white ones in the “Commands & Colors: Napoleonics Expansion: The Austrian Army” set (which I picked up recently) that serve nicely to represent neutral nations. A&A’s China power was a bit of a problem because technically C&C only has one medium shade of green (which is suitable to represent the U.S.), but the individual blocks aren’t all exactly the same shade so by sorting through them I was able to pick out enough lighter ones to serve as Chinese blocks. C&C also provides some rectangular blocks, but I don’t like them. What’s nice about the square ones is that one of the two sizes is almost exactly the same as the size of Scrabble tiles. If you put a lettered Scrabble tile over a coloured C&C block, you get a unit identification block that can represent an entire force, similarly to the “task force marker” system used in the original Pacific game.
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I saw your more detailed post on another board Marc. Certainly the game board can be very crowded so this is well worth considering.
But then the force marker could be anything. A mini post-it note even! :evil:
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True, but personally I find coloured wooden blocks more aesthetically satisfying than Post-it notes. I wouldn’t necessarily buy the blocks from scratch just for that purpose…but since I already have them in my collection, it’s easy to put them to use in this manner.
The part about the Post-it notes brings back fond memories of that Hitler rant video (now sadly taken down) in which his officers suggest ways in which he can compensate for the lack of sufficient Japanese tac bombers in Pacific 1940. One officer advocates the use of poker chips, to which Hitler replies that if he wanted to use poker chips he’d play freaking poker. Another officer proposes the use of pieces of paper with unit names written on it, to which Hitler replies that he didn’t pay 150 euros for a freaking Glenn Drover game. (That second joke is a bit unfair. I own Glenn Drover’s two Attack games, and while I admit that the design of the plastic pieces isn’t to my liking, at least they’re made out of plastic rather than paper.)
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