La Grande Armée, subtitled The Campaigns of Napoleon in Central Europe, is a two-player board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1972. One player commands Napoleon and the other controls his various enemies, depending on the campaign chosen. The game works at the operational level on a hex-grid map scaled at 15 kilometres per hex, with 400 die-cut counters, and each turn represents ten days. Its alternating I Go, You Go system descends from SPI's earlier game Leipzig, and it stresses supply, leadership, forced marches and the cost of breaking up or rebuilding units. Three scenarios cover 1805 against Austria and Russia, 1806 against Prussia and Russia, and 1809 against Austria. Only the French earn victory points, by capturing or besieging fortresses. John Michael Young designed it, Redmond A. Simonsen did the graphic design, and it sold well, ranking as the most popular Napoleonic operational game in SPI's 1976 poll.
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is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc.
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published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1972 that simulates three campaigns of Napoleon.
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La Grande Armée is a two-player game at the operational level
Derived From: Leipzig (wargame), Description, gameplay rules
The rules are based on those of SPI's previously published wargame Leipzig (1969)
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