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Commands & Colors: Napoleonics

Game ID: GID0073632
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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 cards supply those orders, and their appearance in your hand (or not) provide 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 use the cards to handle the diverse units, their weapons, and the terrain, will determine victory.

Year Published
2010
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Overall sentiment (raw)
very positive
Pros
  • deeply appreciated Napoleonic era and its warfare
  • one of the most mature rule sets in the line
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • classic Napoleonic battles with historical accuracy
  • Napoleonic era warfare
  • mature and historically grounded system
Comparison games
  • Memoir 44
  • Hoth
  • Battlecry
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • square formation and artillery nuance — Infantry squares and useful artillery interactions reflect Napoleonic tactics.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • There' s just be some random carnage before the game played out.
  • dragon cards... there were like a whole another deck of cards that can throw monkey wrenches into what you know your opponent's trying to do.
  • it's such a great system and we ended up playing seven or eight games that night.
  • I absolutely love the Napoleonic era, Napoleonic warfare.
  • my number one Commands and Colors game of all time. That is Memoir 44 with the Overlord expansion.
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