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Habit of Victory - Napoleon's Campaign in Poland, 1807 COMPONENTS: One 22 x 34" map and 280 two-sided units; 56 pages of rules (Standard and Exclusive) including campaign analysis, designers notes and more; deck of 100 cards, one game box. Introducing cards into the Campaigns of Napoleon System. Each card represents a Movement Command specifying attrition, administration, etc., and allows for one-time events: political, military, officer feuds, and guerilla war .... read on |
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Napoleon at the
Crossroads - The Highways to Leipzig Campaigns of Napoleon System "2X." Very similar to the "1X" Series, 6 km (3.75 miles) per hex, 3 days per turn, 3,000 men per strength point. The full Autumn campaign lasts just 24 turns. Scenarios cover the decisive start of the campaign in August 1813, the Crossing of the Elbe at Wartenburg in mid-Sept., and the approach to Leipzig starting on October 8th..... read on Historical Notes for "Napoleon at the Crossroads".... read on |
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These four French offensives all occurred within a single fortnight minus an important ingredient: the Emperor himself. After winning two major battles in the Spring of 1813, Napoleon agreed to an Armistice, ostensibly to prepare a path for peace, but actually as a cover for further war preparations..... read on Game Description for "Four Lost Battles".... read on
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Seven Days of 1809 - The Battles of Abensberg, Eckmühl, and Ratisbon
THE TIME IS: 0500 hours., 17 April 1809 At the end of a 96-hour journey from Paris, as the Emperor stepped out of his carriage in Donauwörth, Bavaria, his army was in an extremely hazardous position. Even if Davout and Massena had concentrated, the position would have been bad enough. But, thanks to Berthier's misunderstandings, they are ninety miles apart. The Archduke Charles, with nearly 90,000 men, is moving across the Isar River at Landshut. Two very easy marches will take his main body to the Danube at Kelheim or Ratisbon, whilst between Massena, in Augsburg, and Davout, in Ratisbon, were four days march. In this space there was nothing to oppose the Austrians except 27,000 Bavarian troops.... read on
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Napoleon at Bay, an operational simulation of the 1814 campaign in France, is the flagship of OSG's Campaigns of Napoleon series. The identities and strength of unengaged enemy forces are hidden and the rules allow cavalry to play its historical scouting role. Outnumbered more than two to one, Napoleon won several brilliant victories before the Allies entered Paris and sent him into his first exile. read on!
The Jena-Auerstadt Campaign
"First impressions ... sometimes can deceive. ... I had fallen into a classic reviewer's error: looking at individual rules in isolation from how they interact during play. And the apparent simplicity of the rules contributed to the problem because they concealed the intricacy of those interactions." read on!
La Guerre de l'Empereur is OSG's strategic game of the Napoleonic Wars. Suitable for 2-7 players, the heart of the game is an elegant and intuitive political system, simulating the fluctuating alliances that marked the years 1800-1815. Easy to learn but difficult to master, La Guerre de l'Empereur is the perfect way to introduce new gamers to the OSG family of games. read on!
The time is: 1630 hrs., 15 June 1815...The Imperial Guard light cavalry of Lefebvre-Desnottes encountered the Nassau infantry of Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The Duke had taken the initiative to move one of his two regiments south from the vital crossroads of Quatre-Bras, in the rolling countryside of Flanders, to delay the lead elements of the French advance. The French horsemen found the village of Frasnes occupied by a regiment of 1500 Orange-Nassau infantry. The Guard troopers began to ride around the town on both sides, threatening a double envelopment. Observing this, the Nassauers started to withdraw back up... read on!
Like a thunderstorm from out of the Alpine foothills, Marshal Wurmser's Austrian army jolted the French advanced guard of General Massena from their entrenched heights on Monte Baldo. Bonaparte summarized the bleak situation: "The enemy have broken through our line in three places; they are masters of La Corona and Rivoli. Massena has been compelled to yield to superior forces; Sauret has begun his retreat to Desenzano, and the enemy has captured Brescia and the bridge of Ponte San Marco. You see that our... read on!
Highway to the Kremlin- Napoleon's March on Moscow, June 24 - December 13, 1812
The time is: 0130 hrs., 23 June 1812
Napoleon rode upstream from Kovno to select a crossing place over the Niemen River. Removing his familiar colonel's coat he put on the jacket and black-silk kalpak of a Polish lancer. His companions who all advised against this invasion, Berthier, Davout, Caulaincourt, and the engineer Haxo-did the same. The Emperor was in a pensive, somber mood. Galloping back... read on!
The Sun of 'Austerlitz'- Napoleon's Campain in Moravia, 1805
THE TIME IS: 1400 hours., 30 November 1805
Napoleon arrived from headquarters to meet with his key Marshals on the Pratzen Plateau. The Pratzen commanded a wide view of the whole region, and he was determined to fight here. Standing on the summit near a feature called the "Stari Vinohrady" and gazing eastward, Napoleon and his marshals beheld an amazing sight: the entire enemy army, some 72,000 strong, emerging from the village of Austerlitz and marching straight toward the heights on which they stood... read on!
