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2021Kevin Zucker
- Videos
- 13
- Creators
- 2
Playthroughs
2 players180 - 720 minHeavy weight
Napoleon's Last Battles
1976Kevin Zucker
- Videos
- 26
- Creators
- 5
Mostly playthroughs. Napoleon's Last Battles is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 20 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.
2 - 4 players
60 - 180 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
Napoleon's Last Battles depicts the last campaign of Napoleon: the Waterloo Campaign (1815). It contains 4 individual battles (with own counters and maps): Quatre Bras Ligny Wavre La Belle Alliance (Waterloo) and a campaign game linking all 4 maps and covering the whole camapign. The latest DG edition adds three more scenarios, including a Grand Waterloo battle scenario. Napoleon's Last Battles uses the Napoleon at Waterloo system with modifications for command control and Line of Communication. The campaign game starts from Quatre Bras / Ligny and lasts 3 days. Units are mainly brigades. Kevin Zucker used the rules in a revised edition later on for Napoleon at Leipzig (adding Cavalry Charges) and Four Lost Battles (adding Cards for Movement, General Decisions of Higher Commands, etc.). After a longer break the designer came back with The Coming Storm: Quadrigame of the Fourth Coalition October 1806 - June 1807, which is based on the former "Four Lost Battles" concept, adding baggage- and pontoon trains. In 2011 The Last Success: Quadrigame of the War Against Austria, April - July 1809 was published to create a "family" of games called "Series: The Library of Napoleonic Battles (OSG)" which all could be played under the same rule set. Kevin Zucker republished Napoleon at Leipzig in 2012/13 in a 5th edition for the 200th anniversary of the epic battle and updated Napoleon's Last Battles with Napoleon's Last Gamble: Battles of the Hundred Days in 2015. Nevertheless all rule-editions can be used for the original NLB-game. GAME SYSTEM: inspired Series: The Library of Napoleonic Battles (OSG) - formerly known as the "Napoleon's Last Battles (NLB-)Series" - scale = 480m/hex, - time = 1hour/GT, - strength = 500-800 men/SP. Napoleon's Last Battles was originally published by SPI then by TSR. The last 3rd edition was released by Decision Games.
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Napoleon's Last Battles has 26 videos from 5 creators: 2 reviews, 1 how-to-play guide, 20 playthroughs, 2 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2016 to June 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "NLB - intro", which runs 31 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "NLB - review". To see it played, watch "Napoleon's Last Battles - Part 4 of 4: 17-18 June 1815", one of 20 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Napoleon Invades Spain: Peninsular War – Part I, Napoleon's Last Gamble: Battles of the Hundred Days, Bonaparte Overruns Piedmont: War of the First Coalition – Part I and Highway to the Kremlin: Napoleon's March on Moscow, also by Kevin Zucker.
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About Napoleon's Last Battles
From BoardGameGeek:
Napoleon's Last Battles depicts the last campaign of Napoleon: the Waterloo Campaign (1815). It contains 4 individual battles (with own counters and maps): Quatre Bras Ligny Wavre La Belle Alliance (Waterloo) and a campaign game linking all 4 maps and covering the whole camapign. The latest DG edition adds three more scenarios, including a Grand Waterloo battle scenario. Napoleon's Last Battles uses the Napoleon at Waterloo system with modifications for command control and Line of Communication. The campaign game starts from Quatre Bras / Ligny and lasts 3 days. Units are mainly brigades. Kevin Zucker used the rules in a revised edition later on for Napoleon at Leipzig (adding Cavalry Charges) and Four Lost Battles (adding Cards for Movement, General Decisions of Higher Commands, etc.). After a longer break the designer came back with The Coming Storm: Quadrigame of the Fourth Coalition October 1806 - June 1807, which is based on the former "Four Lost Battles" concept, adding baggage- and pontoon trains. In 2011 The Last Success: Quadrigame of the War Against Austria, April - July 1809 was published to create a "family" of games called "Series: The Library of Napoleonic Battles (OSG)" which all could be played under the same rule set. Kevin Zucker republished Napoleon at Leipzig in 2012/13 in a 5th edition for the 200th anniversary of the epic battle and updated Napoleon's Last Battles with Napoleon's Last Gamble: Battles of the Hundred Days in 2015. Nevertheless all rule-editions can be used for the original NLB-game. GAME SYSTEM: inspired Series: The Library of Napoleonic Battles (OSG) - formerly known as the "Napoleon's Last Battles (NLB-)Series" - scale = 480m/hex, - time = 1hour/GT, - strength = 500-800 men/SP. Napoleon's Last Battles was originally published by SPI then by TSR. The last 3rd edition was released by Decision Games.
Designer
Kevin Zucker
Artists
Larry Elmore, Trevor Holman, Redmond Aksel Simonsen, Joe Youst
Publisher
Decision Games (I)
Categories
NapoleonicWargame
Mechanics
Dice RollingGrid MovementHex GridArea Movement