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GMT's game, The Battles of Waterloo, is really four separate games on the battles of the Waterloo Campaign in 1815--Quatre Bras, Ligny, Wavre and Mont. St. Jean (Waterloo)--using the same rules.

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The game addresses a dramatic topic with great graphical aplomb and a lot of historical flavor.  The rules are unnecessarily convoluted and confusing, however.

Below are links to pages with various manifestations of my opinions about the game (often referred to on this site as "Battles"), some play aids designed to ease the burden of puzzling out the rules, and links to places elsewhere on the Web that describe the game or Napoleonic history.  The main sections of the site are:

My reviews and descriptions of the game (from Fire & Movement, Zone of Control, and various unpublished materials)

A summary of GMT's post-publication activity related to the game, including but not limited to rules errata and an extensive rules re-organization

My play aids, which attempt to summarize crucial rules in tabular form (as well as official and semi-official rules errata)

Links to materials relating to the game and to Napoleonic history

Copyright information relating to the text and images employed in these pages

 

 

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