Waterloo 20 with My Wife

Night, June 16th. Through heavy fighting, the Allies have been forced out of Quatre Bras and the Prussians from Ligny.

I've persuaded my wife to do some reading on Waterloo. She's chiefly reading Bernard Corwell's Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles and may progress on to some other works, including a volume of personal accounts of the battle. To help her understand the situation and choices facing Wellington and Napoleon during those four days, we're playing through Waterloo 20 from the GMT Fading Glory set.

What Do You Mean, I Have An Addiction?

I ordered Leuthen: Frederick's Greatest Victory today from Victory Point Games. Because only have two other versions of the battle (not counting computer games) is not enough. Plus, the limited intel rules looked cool.

Now I want Command Post Games to make a version, too.

Victory Point Games: Aspern Essling

I quite enjoy the Napoleonic 20 system from Victory Point Games. They are quick to play with easy rules that still manage to pull off reasonable results for the scale.

Right now I'm reading John Gill's excellent trilogy on the 1809 campaign against Austria:

Which is just a phenomenal read. If you are at all interested in Napoleonic warfare, this should be on your list.

Waterloo 20: Day 1

After spending most of a week in the Grogheads booth at Origins last month, I've found myself playing board games about as much as I've been playing computer games. A couple of weeks ago I discovered an absolutely great operational scale series of Napoleonic games from Victory Point Games called Napoleonic 20.

A couple of years ago GMT Games released a quad pack of these games, with upgraded components called Fading Glory. I ordered Fading Glory, learned the system, and am playing my first game with it; in this case Waterloo. Rather than trying to explain the game mechanics myself, let me point you to an excellent video from GMT Games that covers the basics:

I'm going to play a day and then post some pictures and descriptions of the action. We enter the campaign on the afternoon of June 16th. I am playing this game using all of the optional rules.