Waterloo Campaign Turn One! Napoleon strikes the Prussians!

Matt follows YOUR orders and marches the French Army against the Prussians to begin the Waterloo Campaign! This video is a bit of an experiment. We decided to show the majority of the game and give it the feel of watching a live event. Let us know what you think. We can change it up for Turn Two. Also - sorry for the low quality of the overhead camera...Mark's Game Room is working on a better solution for the next video. Make sure you vote in the Community tab for Napoleon's next big decision! Will our campaign end at the Battle of Waterloo or somewhere else?
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00:00 Intro
00:38 The Plans
04:01 June 15 - French Turn
07:39 The Battle of Charleroi
15:08 June 15 Allied Turn - June 16 French Turn
22:29 The Battle of Namur
55:10 Your next decision

[@Carl-MGR]

It breaks my rules to root for the French, but GO MATT! Ruthless Aggression!

[@milesreidy7864]

breaks your rules? sacre-bleu!

[@andrewtodd5919]

The Prussian dice like Blucher must have been loaded lol. Well played on both sides

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I absolutely LOVE that Napoleon game by Columbia!

[@redmist1122]

Good 'ol school card game...great for uniform and ORBAT reference too!

[@007nikster2]

@@redmist1122 Card game what?

[@bigsarge2085]

Vive l'Empereur!

[@militarywargaming7840]

This is an excellent simple system that works really well to examine decision making. Well presented and well done.

[@markdegruchy3843]

Actually marshal grouchy fought a successful delaying action against the pursuing Prussians at Namur 😊

[@WayOutGaming]

Hold up, Mark's Game Room AND Little Wars TV are doing Napoleon campaigns?! Exciting!

[@JohnDouglasist]

Namur, the place “not so known to history”, was actually the place of what may be considered the first battle of WWI!

[@Charlemagne260]

It’s hard to beat the fame of Waterloo!

[@royboardman7614]

Throughly enjoyed watching this and congratulations on a great game, looking forward to seeing more. Merry Christmas and enjoy the festive season.

[@chrisrobinson196]

Great video, love seeing multiple fights fitting into the strategy of the campaign. Thanks!

[@alans6752]

Very enjoyable!!! Thanks guys!!! Keep up the great work!!

[@malcolmmccallum7502]

You have more infantry and artillery than you can move against the British, so detach a Corps to monitor the Prussians and move the rest against the British

[@wonghammer]

I see someone is a Sox fan? Go Sox!

[@davidbenton8775]

March dispersed, fight united!

[@MCK3274]

Blucher rollin' hot!

[@j.b.macadam6516]

Well done, Gentlemen! Although the Prussians appear to be out of the fight, they have taken a toll on the French forces. I am looking forward to the next turn! Thanks!

[@reglavcor]

Great video!

[@frankday8720]

Thanks guys, a great video

[@lockelamora8099]

Marshall Ney's terrible horrible no good very bad day.

[@seanbarnett9359]

Great video and vive L’Empereur!

[@1809Lannes]

BTW . Please don't send Grouchy ! He has not recovered from the retreat from Moskowa in 1812 🤕🤭 Please send Maurice Gerard .

[@joehudgens7330]

Love this!

[@colink563]

this reminds me of the pc game Fields of Glory, great idea!!

[@MourningConstitution]

Thanks!

[@danddjacko]

This is my favorite game 😏👍

[@Blutgang]

Looking forward to the next video. Are these planned for every week?

[@jake4753]

So cool

[@matty_r5265]

Prussians had their very own Borodino at Namur.

[@YOUPIMatin123]

Those cameras look SERIOUS

[@oriaj593]

excellent! campaigns are the best videos. But of curiosity why those "particular" rules for the battles instead of black powder, valor and fortitude or something similar?

[@Carl-MGR]

These are just the resolution rules from the board game. We wanted the campaign level maneuvering to be the focus, and the game would probably take waaaay longer if we played every battle out with a miniatures set. That said, each block in Napoleon represents around 3000 men per step, so if you really wanted to convert it to a minis game, you probably could.

[@57rifleman]

Waterloo

[@haroldmorgan7381]

Very Interesting Game/Battles so far - I was for "ATTACKING the Allies" and going for Ghent FIRST but I was OUT-VOTED !! : -)

[@mikedeslauriers6130]

The Battle board and its rules are similar to the battle board rules of Eagle games’ Napoleon in Europe

[@ronelswick4627]

Great game! Does anyone know where to get those large dice they were using? They seemed to have a nice weight to them.

[@Anvilarm07]

Damn, now I want to buy this Napoleon board game. Is this the one Avalon Hill put out, only bigger? At first I couldn't figure out what rules you were using with the minis. But then I realized you were using the board game rules, just recreated with the minis. Well done.

[@rbrentw]

23:51 The "move to reserve" first and then immediately forward in the same turn feels odd. Might as well allow movement from the sides to center. I'm not familiar with this system but I would think moving to reserve would require the units stay there for a turn before moving forward.

[@MichaelCorryFilms]

It's because they are cavalry and get two moves. In a lot of Columbia block games you can't just jump from one engaged position to another without first disengaging, moving to reserve and then to another position. Infantry for example wouldn't be able to do that because of less mobility. If any one forward position (sometimes 2) are not defended then the battle is lost. The French player took a major risk figuring throw everything into the center to buy time for his reinforcements to arrive.

[@OntarioRimrunner]

The overhead shots lack contrast making it hard to see units. Maybe use more side shots?

[@rbrentw]

There was one side angle but that camera was out of focus on most of the units (for example, 36:36)

[@reddsaxxmike2865]

What rules for the battle board?

[@Carl-MGR]

They are the resolution system in the board game, we just replaced the block steps with that many stands of figures

[@johannesmuther2599]

Actually i own this game and from that i know that the french Initial deployment is waaaaaaaay more dispersed, (as they historical were) not allowing for them to fall onto the prussians with that might. (Having not started to ponder about the Problem how to move 120000 men along a single road)

[@Carl-MGR]

In the 4th Edition of the Game, the players can actually deploy much more freely than historically, with the French allowed to start in any French towns, so long as they have no more than 12 blocks in each. Definitely gave our Napoleon a little more punch to start!

[@johannesmuther2599]

​@@Carl-MGR i see. Though "slightly more punch qualifies as the euphemism of the year"

[@Carl-MGR]

@@johannesmuther2599 don’t count the British out just yet! Austin only fumbles the bag when I’m on his team

[@iainfuller5083]

Why fight that first battle? Why not just withdraw all the Prussian forces as you did with the artillery? Seems daft to me to lose a whole Corp. Also it's Lee-age, not pronounced the same as the word liege, there's an accent on the first e.

[@007nikster2]

You sound fun

[@iainfuller5083]

@@007nikster2 I am sweetheart. Bags of it.

[@davidwasilewski]

Raise high the black flags my children…

[@NapoIeoneBuonaparte]

First

[@stuartsimpson3696]

Not too sure about the game rules, movement ranges, and that artillery can limber move to then unlimber, and fire all in the same turn. With this there I no penalty if you stuff up your deployment, I know from my own experience that when you stuff up your deployment you are not only fighting against your opponent but also trying to correct your mistake. These rules allow you to move as you please, very odd.

[@emilegrenierrobillard372]

Vive l'Empereur !