Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars

A wargame system easy to approach but with all the depth and flavor of the Napoleonic battles. Great for those who have always been both fascinated and frightened by the world of hex and counter wargaming, but also for those who want to try a fresh take on the genre.

Just choose your battle, open the map and get ready to battle!

Paolo Mori & Alessandro Zucchini

Jacques Onfroy de Bréville, Richard Knötel

2 Players

60-180 minutes

Spring 2025

  • Paolo Mori & Alessandro Zucchini
  • Jacques Onfroy de Bréville, Richard Knötel
  • 2 players
  • 60-120 minutes
  • Spring 2024

Enjoy the elegance of the format. Choose a Battlefield Folder, open the map, and deploy your pieces in minutes. The inner side of the folder will double as game board for commanding your formations and tracking battle outcomes, as well as providing all the specific scenario rules.

Test your tactical skills with a dramatic command system based on the timing of orders for your units. Decide when commanding your infantry lines and artilleries, or when it’s time to give orders to one of your officers, or reorganize your unit ranks.

Get to know the nuances of a truly unique combat system, with three different types of special dice: for fire, assault, and for the most dramatic actions. No modifiers to remember: set up the most advantageous situation, roll the dice, and resolve the combat in an instant.

Change formation to your infantries according to your plans. Use columns to quickly occupy key positions, lines to fire upon enemy units, and squares to defend against cavalry charges. Enjoy maneuvering your units across the battlefield.

Explore all the battlefields! Once you’ve played and replayed the battles in this box, collect all the upcoming Battlefields folders. Experience small skirmishes and large decisive battles, each with its own special rules for a unique experience every time.

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Box contents

  • 1 16-pages rulebook
  • 176 Unit counters
  • 4 Battlefield maps
  • 4 Battle folders
  • 2 Player Aids
  • 5 special dice
  • 1 six sided die
  • 32 wooden tokens and markers

Chronicles about Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars

Aperti i pre-ordini per PLAY 2025

Mancano dieci giorni scarsi a PLAY e al debutto della Ingenioso Hidalgo in società, e direi che è il momento di rompere gli indugi aprendo un 'pre-ordine' per chi è interessato/a a recuperare una copia di uno o di entrambi i giochi che porteremo in fiera a un prezzo di favore.

Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars: the command system

After the break to share the rulebook, and to announce ‘’Un altro passo nella neve‘’, the game-book by Manuele Giuliano that will be available at PLAY, let's return to the presentation of Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars, to talk about the command system.

Units and Formations

For those who are accustomed to the world of ‘hex and counter’ wargames, the unit pieces in Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars can be a little disorienting, because they do lack many distinctive elements. There are no NATO symbols, no uniforms, no corps or regiments to which they belong, and - above all - no values indicating movement or combat strength.

The Battlefield Format

After briefly recounting some of the editorial choices for the publication of the game, today I begin to tell a little about what the game is like. The name ‘Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars’ is not accidental, because it places the emphasis on the places where the battles whose names we still remember today were fought more than two hundred years ago: Rivoli, Marengo, Austerlitz, Waterloo...

Introducing Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars

Today I start talking a little about Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars, the first game - designed by me together with Alessandro Zucchini - that will be released under the Ingenioso Hidalgo imprint, the small publishing label I created to follow some projects that are a little more particular or niche than my more typical games.

Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars on BGG

Very small update: the first Ingenioso Hidalgo game has now its own page on Boardgamegeek. Of course there is also a dedicated page on this website.