Morning all! Herewith a new thread. In brief, I am considering writing a book on how the battle of Waterloo has been wargamed over the past half-century or more with a particular emphasis on board games. I am reasonably au fait with most of the games that were around prior to the year 2000, but, whilst I have a few more recent examples such as 'Waterloo: Quelle Affaire!' and 'Day of Waterloo', not to mention the wonderful Columbia Games card extravaganza, I am much less familiar with the stuff that has come out since then. Also I would be very interested to hear from anybody who has managed of playing 'Wellington's Victory' to a conclusion (anything to save me from that particular task: the real thing can hardly have been more wearing!).
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Likewise, Sir Bob, the AH "Waterloo" was one of the early acquisitions ("Stalingrad" was first). And, likewise, tried "Wellington's Victory," but never progressed very far. Even the much smaller Quatre Bras game was a slog, especially solitaire.
To find a number of Waterloo games, recommend the Boardgame Geek website--just type "Waterloo" in the search box and a whole raft show up (though not the other Monster: "La Bataille de Mont St Jean"): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5508/la-bataille-de-mont-saint-jean
"Napoleon at Waterloo" or NAW was the old Strategy & Tactics introductory game of the 1970s--used a system that was very simple, perhaps simplistic, but very widely copied, applied/misapplied broadly. And SPI's 1976 "Napoleon's Last Battles" probably qualifies as a "classic" of sorts.
One of the first board wargames I played was "Waterloo" by Avalon Hill. It came out in the mid-1960s. It was quite playable with each counter a division. It cost $5. I did have "Wellington's Victory" which was massive and the map was on folded paper and not mounted on a board. I never found anyone to play it.