Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature: A Wargamers' Guide to the Napoleonic Wars, 1796-1815

by Bruce Quarrie

Book Overview

This book is designed to be used as a reference work for warmongers, with playing rules included. Now - in this fourth edition - it features an introduction explaining matters which have caused... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0850597854
• ISBN13: 9780850597851
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: P. Stephens
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

'It does exactly what it says on the tin !'

Bruce Quarrie has provided a mine of information for the potential Napoleonic gamer. Starting with an excellent potted history of the wars the book move through strategy and tactics, organisation and then moves in some detail into the worlds of campaigns related topics. Finance, recruitment, hospitals and supply are tackledin amazing detail - ever wondered how much fodder a Hussar suadron got through in a week ? If you did the answer is here and fully explained ! Advice on buying, painting and basing your armies is a little dated in some respects but really only in terms of materials - the advice is still sound. Finally comes a set of very detailed rules so typical of 70s gaming. They are easily adapted and being the 2nd edition of the rules produced in the well know Airfix guide to Napoleonic Wargaming most mechanisms will be familiar to older hands. Overall a unique book in that one really could start from scratch and wargame the Napoleonic wars from this one book. With such a bewildering choice of books on the market today the neophyte Napoleonic gamer would do well to search out this book. I started with it 25 years ago and am still using it in my campaigns today.