Waterloo Solitaire: Overview and Play-through.

Eric examines "Waterloo Solitaire" from Worthington Games. This is a quick and fun game representing the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.
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[@davidmcfarland8452]

Playing Napoleon is great! I feel like either side could win especially the games of hardest difficulty. But playing Wellington was disappointing, I just kept winning with little effort. So I made it more challenging for Wellington to win by modifying the BOT rules for the French. I added to French BOT roll of one: If Prussian have 2 units on game board move one French Reserve unit to reinforce I Corps. Then the given "4 Prussion" option and the "otherwise" option. I added to French BOT roll of four: at the end: BUT, If there is only one Guard unit left after the attack move the last Guard unit to reinforce I Corps. I also add to the French BOT rolls of five or six that after the Cavalry attack: if 3 Cavalry units still remain move one to reinforce it's adjacent Corps. (Dragoons could dismount and use their muskets :). Lastly I changed the BOT 6 roll on the "Tactical Events" to remove 2 Allied Infantry units rather than just the one. Finally it was fun and quite challenging playing Wellington too! I also made a larger board and used my Napoleonic minitures for hits. Great game!

[@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I haven't had the occasion to play this in awhile. I will consider your suggestions to make the British side more challenging.

[@robossuperchannel9434]

It was the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life.

[@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles]

I like the quote. My game wasn’t that close though.

[@robossuperchannel9434]

@@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles I have a couple of long plane trips coming up in a couple of weeks and your video has convinced me to bring the game with me to play. I received it as a Christmas present but had not found the inspiration to play it until now.

[@maxeisert7466]

I think an error was made on 13:54. III Cavalry charged the Right Wing that was in square. III Cavalry Charge on Right Wing is -1 DRM while square is +2 DRM so +1 DRM in total. The roll was 4 which gives 5 after applying the +1 DRM so only 1 French Cavalry unit was destroyed instead of 2 in my opinion.

[@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles]

You are probably right. I think this was my second time playing through the game. It is a fun little game!

[@maxeisert7466]

@@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles It didn't change the outcome. I also have the bookgame. There is also a version on tabletop simulator.

[@williamarends7138]

Eric, you are almost as good at solitaire playthroughs as the channel, 'My Own Worst Enemy', who specializes in that type of play. Solitaire play seems to be a good entry point for me into the hobby at this time, but I still will be wanting to explore both VASL and face to face opportunities before the end of this year.

[@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles]

Hi William. Thank you. I will have to check-out that channel. When you are ready to try playing vassal, you can post looking-for-an-opponent on either FB or the La Bat Discord server.

[@1111koen1111]

On turn 3 you forgot to mark a hit on the french cavalry

[@e-4airman124]

Wish the map were a bit larger

[@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles]

Are you suggesting I need to zoom in for future filming or that the designer of the game made the map too small? Let me know so I can do better.

[@e-4airman124]

@@EricsTableNapoleonicBattles I have the Worthington board game edition and i wish it included more map area at least east and west. you film was great!