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Vive L'Empereur!

Vive L'Empereur!

2023·Hermann Luttmann

Videos
7
Creators
4

Mostly playthroughs and unboxings. Vive L'Empereur! is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 3 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.

1 - 2 players
180 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

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!

Watch first

Review

TDG: Vive L'Empereur!15:47

TDG: Vive L'Empereur!

The Discriminating Gamer

The Discriminating Gamer

Watch it played

Vive L'Empereur - Gameplay58:29

Vive L'Empereur - Gameplay

Hexed And Countered

Hexed And Countered

Which Vive L'Empereur! video should I watch?

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.

All videos

TDG: Vive L'Empereur!Review15:47

TDG: Vive L'Empereur!

The Discriminating Gamer

The Discriminating Gamer

TDG: Cody's Top Ten Solitaire Wargames (November 2025)17:20

TDG: Cody's Top Ten Solitaire Wargames (November 2025)

The Discriminating Gamer

The Discriminating Gamer

Vive L'Empereur - GameplayPlaythrough58:29

Vive L'Empereur - Gameplay

Hexed And Countered

Hexed And Countered

Vive L'Empereur! - Turn 1Playthrough1:10:47

Vive L'Empereur! - Turn 1

My Own Worst Enemy

My Own Worst Enemy

Vive L'Empereur! UnboxingUnboxing13:44

Vive L'Empereur! Unboxing

My Own Worst Enemy

My Own Worst Enemy

Vive L'Empereur: Second Edition (Blue Panther) - Unboxing and IntroductionUnboxing12:57

Vive L'Empereur: Second Edition (Blue Panther) - Unboxing and Introduction

KilroyWasHere

KilroyWasHere

Vive L'Empereur: Second Edition (Blue Panther) - AARPlaythrough19:32

Vive L'Empereur: Second Edition (Blue Panther) - AAR

KilroyWasHere

KilroyWasHere

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KilroyWasHere
KilroyWasHere
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My Own Worst Enemy
My Own Worst Enemy
2 videos of this game
The Discriminating Gamer
The Discriminating Gamer
2 videos of this game
Hexed And Countered
Hexed And Countered
1 video of this game

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About Vive L'Empereur!

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

Categories

NapoleonicWargame

Mechanics

Chit-Pull SystemDice RollingHex GridSimulation
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