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Napoleon's Eagles 2: The Hundred Days – The Waterloo Campaign

2023-12-27T14:50:47-05:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	Christopher Moeller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	2
Playtime	30-240 mins
Suggested Age	0 and up
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Napoleon’s Eagles 2: The Hundred Days, is the second game by designer Christopher Moeller in a series aiming to cover all of the great battles of the Napoleonic era. Following Napoleon’s Eagles: Storm in the East, The Hundred Days covers the Emperor Napoleon’s Belgian campaign in 1815: four battles that culminated in one of the most famous conflicts in history: Waterloo.

Featured are the final four battles of the Napoleonic age: Quatre Bras and Ligny (June 16, 1815), and Waterloo and Wavre (June 18, 1815). Two campaign games allow the battles of the 16th and 18th to be played together, as well as a grand campaign that combines all four battles.

While there are multiple scenarios presented in the game, each with its own special rules and conditions for victory, most battles are won by inflicting nine demoralizations on an opponent’s army, before they do the same to you. Combat is a back and forth affair, using specially designed decks of playing cards. Combat is simple, fast and straightforward, but has a number of subtle wrinkles that you’ll discover during play. Combat units, featuring glorious period artwork, represent infantry and cavalry formations, massed artillery formations, and those leaders operating at the highest levels (Wing and Army command).

Product information
Complexity: 5 out of 10
Solitaire Suitability: High
Time Scale: abstract (one full day of battle is 6 turns)
Unit Scale: Infantry and Cavalry Corps
Players: Two
Playing Time: 30 to 90 minutes; 4 hours for large campaign

Components
225 Poker-sized cards which include 89 Unit Cards, 32 Terrain and Info Cards, and 104 Playing Cards
Two Player Aid Cards
Three Scenario Set-up Cards
One Rules and Scenario Book
1 Box and Lid set

-description from publisher's website

Burning Banners

2023-07-13T12:59:01-04:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 152.95

Designer	Christopher Moeller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	389820/burning-banners http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/389820/burning-banners/forums/63

In the five centuries since the Wound was closed, the kingdoms of Kalar have struggled to rebuild their shattered societies. A resurgent Empire spread across the great sea, bringing civilization to the untamed eastern continent of Kheros. But Lilith, one of the immortal sorcerers responsible for the Worldwound, arrived first, preparing the way for the return of her dark mistress. For nearly six hundred years she has plotted and schemed. In 588 (2023 Gregorian), the wait is over.

Burning Banners: Rage of the Witch Queen is a fantasy wargame for two to six players. Fast playing and intuitive, a whopping 29 scenarios range from short campaigns with 2 Kingdoms and one map, to the entire 12-year war, in which 6 kingdoms battle over four maps. The rules include a quick-playing Basic Game as well as an Advanced Game which introduces Magic, Heroes, and Monsters guarding powerful treasures.

March 1” Armies and Heroes through huge, lovingly detailed hexes. Explore a vast, detailed fantasy world encompassing four mounted game maps with six unique kingdoms and dozens of troop types. Designed and illustrated by acclaimed fantasy artist, Christopher Moeller!

—description from the publisher

Brothers at War: 1862

2022-09-05T03:38:08-04:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 120.95

Designer	Christopher Moeller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	60-240 mins
Suggested Age	16 and up
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Brothers at War: 1862 is a quick-playing, tactical wargame exploring civil war brigade command. Units are regiments, batteries and companies of skirmishers. This is a quadrigame or set of four games, each featuring a full-size, 22x34" game map and covering battles from 1862:

Antietam, 5am-9am, September 17th
South Mountain, 9am-6pm, September 14th
Mill Springs, 7am-12pm, January 17th
Bloody Valverde, 10am-5pm, February 21st

Command rules are simple and abstracted. There are no combat results tables. Combat and all checks are resolved using six-sided dice, in which results of 5-6 mark success, and 1-4 failure. Brigades activate via chit pull, with their constituent units moving and fighting individually. Stacking is limited to two units per hex. Massive 1.5” hexes allow two 3/4” units to fit side by side… no information is obscured!

Distinctions are made between formed and unformed infantry, deployed and limbered artillery, mounted and dismounted cavalry. Unit facing is not an element of play. Instead, unit deployment in adjacent hexes can trigger pass-through fire, which simulates flanking fire, or fire on compressed lines (both dangerous situations for civil war units).

Battle Cards introduce an element of uncertainty and excitement to play. Unique off-map displays track every brigade's reserves and casualties. Once a unit's reserves are used up, it becomes exhausted and liable to break.

Game Scale:
Game Turn: 20 minutes
Hex: 100 yards / 91 meters
Units: Regiments and Batteries

Game Inventory:
Four 22 x 34" full color mapsheets (1.5"/38mm hex size)
Four dual-side printed countersheets (520 .75"/19mm counters)
One dual-side printed countersheet (228 .5"/12.7mm counters)
One 24-page full color rulebook
One 36-page full color scenario book
Five dual-side printed brigade display player aid cards
Two dual-side printed activation track display player aid cards
Two dual-side printed sequence of play/terrain effects/combat chart player aid cards
One deck of 52 battle playing cards
Two save rolls playing cards
Six off-board artillery playing cards
Six 6-sided dice (3 blue/3 gray)

Solitaire Playability: Medium
Complexity Level: Medium-high
Players: 2 or more
Playing Time: 1-4 hours

Napoleon's Eagles: Storm in the East – The Battles of Borodino and Leipzig

2020-05-06T02:31:43-04:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	Christopher Moeller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	2
Playing Time	30-240 mins
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The events of Autumn 1812 to Autumn 1813 marked a pivot point in the history of 19th Century Europe. Despite ominous setbacks in Spain, Napoleonic France before 1812 was at the height of its expansion. The continental system was holding, if imperfectly. Monarchs friendly to the Empire (several, members of Napoleon’s immediate family), ruled in every capital of the continent. Only Britain remained unbowed. By the end of 1813 the story had changed dramatically…

Napoleon’s Eagles is a highly playable, action-packed card game set during the wars of 19th Century Europe. Two battles are featured: Borodino, the sanguinary clash before the gates of Moscow featured in Tolstoy’s famous novel War and Peace, and Leipzig, the great “Battle of Nations” which marked the beginning of the end of the French Empire.

Two smaller battles are included (Shevardino and Lieberwolkwitz), as well as two campaign games that cover multiple days of battle: September 5th-7th, 1812 at Borodino and October 14th-18th, 1813 at Leipzig. The game includes rules for cavalry charges, artillery bombardment, army morale and army commanders. Emphasis is placed on the role of reserves and the judicious commitment of infantry and cavalry. Key terrain pieces are featured, such as the city of Leipzig and the famous Great Redoubt at Borodino.

Product information

Complexity: 5 out of 10
Solitaire Suitability: Low (card-driven game)
Time Scale: abstract (one full day of battle is 6 turns)
Unit Scale: Infantry and Cavalry Corps
Players: Two
Playing Time: 30 to 90 minutes; 4 hours for large campaign
Designer: Christopher Moeller

Components

225 Poker-sized cards which include 89 Unit Cards, 32 Terrain and Info Cards, and 104 Playing Cards
Two Player Aid Cards
Three Scenario Set-up Cards
One Rules and Scenario Book
1 Box and Lid set