REVIEW of 'Commands & Colors: Napoleonics' from GMT by Judd & The Chief

Commands & Colors: Napoleonics allows you to re-fight epic battles of the Napoleonic era. In this core volume, the focus is on the French and the British, two bitter rivals in the struggle for European preeminence during the time of Napoleon.
As with other games in the Commands & Colors genre, units in both armies can only move and fight when ordered. The command playing cards supply those orders, providing an element of luck that creates a fog of war and presents players with both challenges and opportunities. You must maximize your opportunities by playing your command cards judiciously. How well you handle the diverse units, their weapons, and the terrain, will determine victory.
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(00:00 Intro)
(00:45 Play description)
(09:00 Judd & The Chiefs thoughts)
(29:06 Credits)

[@joaoviegas4479]

Great to have you two back, showing us great games!

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Thanks Joao. Always fun to hang with Judd

[@davidwhitehouse615]

Good to see you chaps back together! It’s a great system, tons of replay in a box makes them a good investment

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Very true

[@davidwarren3221]

Good to see you Gents again,miss the Hamtag videos'....Purchased this game about a month ago and is still sitting on my shelf.You've sparked my interest again!

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Excellent!

[@kaiax33]

Missed you guys.....glad to see you back! Great review! C&C:N is such a great system...especially when you add in the Tactician cards. Maybe now we can get all 4 Army Expansions on the P500 list. Cannot wait for La Grande Battles.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

The Borg is strong in this one! 😁

[@conflictmagazine]

Good to see you guys...been a minute...as The Kills would say "the future starts so slow'...looking forward to getting back on track myself. And the Borg Engine (as my group tends to call it) is so versatile...it kept me in wargaming after I saw just what all could be done with it (thank you Pete Belli-BGG member-always in your debt for that).

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Very cool. We agree…The Borg…Resistance is futile

[@MattWhiteWargames]

Great overview! I love this system too.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

The system keeps growing on my with each edition.

[@StackingLimit]

Awesome Overview. Just ordered it so I can try it thanks to your video. I miss Hamtag or just you and Judd doing something like this.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Me too. Hopefully we can get back in the groove again.

[@vondeekin287]

Awesome review, guys! Great seeing you two sharing the 'stage' again. C & C Napoleonics is one helluva game, and , like Judd, I can't wait for La Grande battles to be released. (want me some 'Grande' Waterloo!) Happy gaming!!

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Thank you Von

[@davidk6269]

I LOVE that Judd is wearing a Walter Payton jersey. Believe it or not, Walter Payton lived on my block in Arlington Heights, Illinois for the first few years of his Bears' career. ; ) Sweetness may be gone, but he is not forgotten. Go Bears!

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Payton was awesome and so professional.

[@ErwinLau]

Of all CC systems, this is the one I like 👍 most.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

👍

[@BABYPOP028]

Napoleon would have won Waterloo if he had army elephants !

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Lol. I think you might be right

[@nicolasi1844]

Nobody would have heard of Waterloo if he had a newspaper as the soviet La Pravda.

[@johnrogers8876]

Agree with Judd on the epic history tv series. Fantastic watch. Regarding CCN, I’ve owned the complete set twice now. I can’t seem to internalize it like I have Ancients and many of the others. And soloing it is exhausting. I really want to love it. It’s a struggle.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Interesting. Good thing is that the game holds its dollar value. You can always sell it and get your money back

[@johnrogers8876]

@@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs My goal is to go through the series chronologically. I’m currently in the middle of the fourth coalition period. Hopefully the game will start to take hold.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Very cool

[@tomknight1759]

Great job explaining it guys. And yes, Judd got this reluctant CCA player to jump in and enjoy CCN. Now I am hoping to get Judd to go gaga for Samurai.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

I love “go gaga for samurai”

[@dantheboardgameman9593]

Hello Bart ! Hey Judd ! C & C Napoleonics is a big winner for me since it came out. Not easy to get an opponent lately, but a solo session is on the list. Thanks for this video, a simple game but a lot of meat around the bone.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Thanks and very true

[@davidaldinger3666]

I think Le Grand and Epics is the equivalent of Overlord and Breakthrough on Memoir 44.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

That sounds right

[@przemekbozek]

Thanks, only got the base game of this one but aiming to get some more - especially Tactician and Grand Battle ones😁 And it is amongst my favourites (alongside Red Alert and Battlelore 2)

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

I really enjoy Red Alert as well. Wish they would have put out the alien races and the space marines

[@johnc.4871]

I hear that Napolean in epic scale is even better and the base game is a lot of fun too.

[@nicolasi1844]

It's been a while I hadn't seen Judd. Greetings !

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Always fun having him on set “Show Nuf”

[@burglekutt23]

@@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs The Shogun of Harlem?

[@johnc.4871]

@@burglekutt23 yes. In one of the videos Jud says its a favorite of his.

[@robertmoffitt1336]

Good stuff

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

👍

[@johnrogers8876]

Question for Judd: is Tricorne still Borg’s masterpiece or is it now Napoleonics?

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

I think he still believes this but napoleonics is giving it a run.

[@johnrogers8876]

A one-on-one like this for the other C&C titles would be great. If I am missing them let me know!

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Great idea John. We have not done that. We were talking about filming us playing several of the games. I think that would be fun and convey how interesting and easy C&C game play is.

[@Darthvegeta8000]

Little update for people late to the party. As of now all the expansions and core set are one last time on P500. After this wave they'll only be released in 2 master boxes.

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

I know wood block prices have gone way up as well. Good time to buy.

[@vonholdinghausen6886]

What a comeback :) KUTGW

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Boom

[@user-fk3hs9so3g]

How can you see if it's an original? Or from which website should I buy it?

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

You can buy directly from GMT. They have done reprinting of the base game and expansions but I don’t think there is a new version. They will correct errata with a new printing. Any and all questions to GMT. They are very helpful and responsive.

[@user-fk3hs9so3g]

@@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs on gmt there are not all the expansions

[@bradford2177]

HAMTAG!

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Boom

[@domdalbello1607]

Who are these guys? 😀

[@BondingWithBoardGamesRPGs]

Fun to be together