In September 1981, SSI released Paul Murray's Napoleon's Campaign, an incredibly ambitious game covering the battles of Leipzig and Waterloo at the Corps level. The game did everything that board games could not do: Fog of War, delayed ordered, Corps Commander acting on their Initiative, etc (1/3). - ThreadSky

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wargamingscribe.bsky.social • 28 days ago

In September 1981, SSI released Paul Murray's Napoleon's Campaign, an incredibly ambitious game covering the battles of Leipzig and Waterloo at the Corps level. The game did everything that board games could not do: Fog of War, delayed ordered, Corps Commander acting on their Initiative, etc (1/3).

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wargamingscribe.bsky.social•28 days ago

The game was incredibly complicated, and released at a time when there was almost no collective wisdom on what a good wargaming UI was - so it shipped with a map and a set of counters. It was optional to use but honestly it was must easier to push the counters compared to using the in-game map (2/3)

wargamingscribe.bsky.social•28 days ago

But if you made the effort to understand the rules and invested hours in it, you could play...

... a terrible game, where the best strategy was to create a megastack and destroy the enemy!

I played Napoleon's Campaign twice in 2021 and found it terrible... (3/4)

wargamingscribe.bsky.social•28 days ago

I gave the game two chances in 2021 and found it terrible. I found a fix for a crippling issue and gave it a last chance last week - still terrible. Read all about it here:
https://zeitgame.net/archives/16760

wargamingscribe.bsky.social•28 days ago

Napoleon's Campaigns was typical of the 1979-1981 era of cwargaming, when designers assumed that making games realistic would make them good. Then Eastern Front 1941 arrived - and it was like the invention of perspective. Later games were not always good, but earlier games were suddenly all dated!

sirduncaneltorpe.bsky.social•28 days ago

"The game was incredibly complicated..."

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