2016Hermann Luttmann
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1 - 5 players90 - 120 minHeavy weight

2023Hermann Luttmann
Mostly playthroughs and unboxings. Vive L'Empereur! is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 3 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.
From BoardGameGeek
Vive L'Empereur! is an exciting, solitaire wargame depicting the Battle of Waterloo fought on June 18, 1815. Controlling the French side as the Emperor Napoleon, you have conducted a brilliant campaign so far against not one, but two, Allied armies, defeating Field Marshal Blucher's Prussians at Ligny and forcing the Anglo-Allied army under the Duke of Wellington to retreat from Quatre Bras. You have sent a wing of your army under Marshal Grouchy to keep the Prussians and the British-Dutch armies separate. Meanwhile, Wellington and his Dutch allies with 68,000 men have fallen back to a ridge line before the small town of Waterloo. On this rainy and muddy day, your 72,000-strong French army must defeat the Anglo-Allied Army before the Prussians can regroup, avoid Grouchy, and arrive on the battlefield at Waterloo. Are you up for the challenge? Vive L'Empereur is a hex-and-counter war game that uses a chit-pull system to generate random force activations for both sides. The Anglo-Allied and Prussian forces (the forces of the solitaire side) move and conduct combat using random instructions from the game's Activation Table. -description from the publisher
Vive L'Empereur! has 7 videos from 4 creators: 1 review, 3 playthroughs, 2 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2023 to November 2025.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "TDG: Vive L'Empereur!" by The Discriminating Gamer. To see it played, watch "Vive L'Empereur - Gameplay" by Hexed And Countered, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Dawn of the Zeds (Third Edition), The Plum Island Horror, A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg and Crowbar! The Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc, also by Hermann Luttmann.
2016Hermann Luttmann
1 - 5 players90 - 120 minHeavy weight
2023Hermann Luttmann
1 - 4 players45 - 180 minHeavy weight
2022Hermann Luttmann
2 - 4 players60 - 4320 minHeavy weight
2019Hermann Luttmann
1 - 3 players60 - 180 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Vive L'Empereur! is an exciting, solitaire wargame depicting the Battle of Waterloo fought on June 18, 1815. Controlling the French side as the Emperor Napoleon, you have conducted a brilliant campaign so far against not one, but two, Allied armies, defeating Field Marshal Blucher's Prussians at Ligny and forcing the Anglo-Allied army under the Duke of Wellington to retreat from Quatre Bras. You have sent a wing of your army under Marshal Grouchy to keep the Prussians and the British-Dutch armies separate. Meanwhile, Wellington and his Dutch allies with 68,000 men have fallen back to a ridge line before the small town of Waterloo. On this rainy and muddy day, your 72,000-strong French army must defeat the Anglo-Allied Army before the Prussians can regroup, avoid Grouchy, and arrive on the battlefield at Waterloo. Are you up for the challenge? Vive L'Empereur is a hex-and-counter war game that uses a chit-pull system to generate random force activations for both sides. The Anglo-Allied and Prussian forces (the forces of the solitaire side) move and conduct combat using random instructions from the game's Activation Table. -description from the publisher
Designer
Hermann Luttmann
Artists
Tim Allen, José Ramón Faura, Ryan Heilman, Mark Mahaffey
Publisher
White Dog Games
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