Watch “Napoleon's Last Battles (SPI, 1976)- Part II,” a gameplay video for Napoleon's Last Battles from Curmudgeons with Dice on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Curmudgeons with Dice on YouTube:
Up on Vassal is the Kevin Zucker campaign game from Napoleon's Last Battles, the SPI quadrigame of 4 battles (published 1976 and with several repubs) from the 1815 campaign, combined for a complete campaign.
This episode covers the late afternoon and night of 16 June 1815 and the start of the morning of the 17th of June 1815. Nick Wade's French main army attempts to pin and destroy David Larsen's Prussians who are withdrawing from Ligny. Meanwhile, Bill Clancy's II Corps stalls after seizing Quatre Bras and inflicting casualties on the British and Allied forces. Daniel Duldig's British and Allied forces are set to withdraw in good order from the Quatre Bras crossroads, while British reinforcements slowly arrrive to bolster Daniel's forces.
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
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
![Napoleon's Last Battles [Decision Games] - Campaign - Part 1 of 4: 14:00-17:59, 16 June 1815 - Quatre Bras, Ligny, and the road to Waterloo!](https://img.youtube.com/vi_webp/9FTMrtDfwTk/mqdefault.webp)
