Sunday, October 25, 2015

Companion Guide to Hexes and Soldiers Episode #42: Waterloo

Even the uninitiated historian is somewhat familiar with the most famous battle of the Napoleonic era.  Countless books have been written on the subject, and countless debates have taken place.  Did Wellington win?  Or did Napoleon lose?  The bulk of information for this show was pulled from a book by Owen Connelly who has a small chapter on the subject.  The author's overall premise is that battle after battle, Napoleon was an improviser, devoid of any real strategy and merely scrambled to victory by profiting from his enemies mistakes.  

What to play: From the new:
This game is getting a lot of love and rising fast.

To the old:
A great game i have played countless times.  The on map maneuvering and off map battles somehow work brilliantly.

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If you could only own one book on the subject, this should be it.



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