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Feb 23, 2025·Unboxing·12:57·705·Watch on YouTube

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

KilroyWasHere

KilroyWasHere

Watch “Vive L'Empereur: Second Edition (Blue Panther) - Unboxing and Introduction,” a board game unboxing for Vive L'Empereur! on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by KilroyWasHere on YouTube:

You, playing as Napoleon, are at the culminating battle of your brilliant "Hundred Days Campaign". You have successfully separated the two armies opposing you - the Anglo Allied army under General Wellington and the Prussian Army under Field Marshal Blucher - and you have deployed Marshal Grouchy with a large force to pursue the recently defeated Prussians. On this day, you must now defeat the Anglo-Allied Army before the Prussians are able to rally and rejoin the campaign. Both Wellington and Blucher are long-time skilled rivals, and both are familiar with your strategy and tactics. In addition, you have been ill for days, and this has affected your judgment and decision making. Can you overcome these disadvantages and reclaim an uncontested throne of France and with that, its renewed dominance of Europe? Vive L'Empereur uses a chit pull system to generate random force activations for both sides . The Anglo-Allied and Prussian forces move and conduct combat based on the instructions resulting from a dice roll on their respective Activation Tables. You must be prepared to expect the unexpected ... to seize the advantage when an opportunity presents itself to react swiftly if Wellington or Blucher order a sudden counterattack. Because you have historically "humbugged" the Allies and Prussians on numerous occasions, you are able to hold some activation chits and use them when they will be most valuable to you and do the most harm to your enemies. By the same token, your health has been compromised and lingering sickness may become a burden to your ability to command your La Grand Armee effectively. Are you up for the challenge?

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Vive L'Empereur!

Vive L'Empereur!

2023·Hermann Luttmann

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Creators
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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

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 Rolling
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