Jena-Auerstadt: The Battle for Prussia

Jena-Auerstadt: The Battle for Prussia is a board wargame designed by Tom Walczyk and published in 1975 by Simulations Publications Inc, known as SPI. It recreates the twin battles fought in October 1806 in which Napoleon's French army crushed the Prussian forces, with one player commanding the French and the other commanding the Prussians across a single hexagonal map scaled at 400 meters per hex. The system borrows its basic turn structure from SPI's earlier Napoleon at Waterloo design, with each game turn representing one hour of daylight combat and only limited movement, and no combat, permitted at night. With a compact set of 89 counters and two rules sheets, the game was built to be approachable for newer wargamers while still letting players choose the historical Prussian deployment or experiment with concentrating their forces at Jena instead of splitting them between both battles. It proved popular enough to rank seventh in a 1976 Simulations Publications reader poll covering 202 different wargames.