within the early days of ‘modern’ wargaming, Napoleonic video games have been drastically well known. They allowed the recent, no longer unavoidably younger, wargamer to struggle the wonderful activities they'd heard approximately of their university historical past classes. frequently beginning with the conflict of Waterloo as their first motion, the overall might install his swiftly painted squaddies from Airfix’s Napoleonic variety. Airfix provided British and French infantry, in addition to cavalry and weapons for either sides.

Napoleonic strategies have been easy in precept, yet have been tough to grasp in perform; for instance infantry in a line maximized its firepower, yet used to be liable to cavalry. altering to a sq. saved the infantry secure from the cavalry, yet made them liable to artillery and decreased their musketry to ¼ of the unit’s power. The video games, like the battles of heritage, have been all approximately combining the efforts of the infantry, cavalry and artillery utilizing ‘combined fingers strategies’ to brush the enemy away. the most important challenge with those video games used to be the ‘helicopter evaluation’ of the motion the avid gamers had in their principally divisional sized video games. whereas representing the battles of the Napoleonic Wars in many ways, they didn't recreate event of the commanders of the time.

Paddy Griffith’s first-class ebook aimed to fill the distance and supply at the very least seven diversified units of principles to simulate the adventure of command at assorted degrees. simply because the early wargamers took the Airfix Napoleonic’s and switched over them to be used in quite a lot of sessions, the tips provided via Paddy in those ideas have equivalent power to rework any wargamer’s tabletop adventure. i'm more than happy for the chance to reprint this vintage work.

This ebook comprises a minimum of seven units of principles: Skirmish point, Divisional online game, Brigade video game, military point online game, Generalship online game, Map Kriegsspiel and Tactic workouts with out Troops

This revised version comprises: a brand new entire bibliography for the Napoleonic Wars and a brand new foreword through Arthur Harman.