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Grenadier: Tactical Warfare 1680-1850
Grenadier: Tactical Warfare 1680-1850
by SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) (1972)
Player Count
2

Player Ages
12+

Playing Time
2 hours to 4 hours
Categories
  • Wargame
  • Napoleonic
  • Age of Reason
  • Designers
  • Jim Dunnigan
  • Mechanisms
  • Hex-and-Counter
  • Artists
  • Redmond A. Simonsen
  • Family
  • History: French Revolutionary Wars
  • War of the Spanish Succession
  • History: War of Austrian Succession
  • History: Mexican–American War
  • History: Seven Years War
  • Player Count: Two Player Only Games
  • Rating: 5.81/10 from 49 users

    Description

    Grenadier - Tactical Warfare: 1680 - 1850

    Grenadier is a company/battery/squadron scale game of warfare in the period of the dominance of cannon and musket. The game depicts sixteen famous battles from the introduction of the bayonet to the invention of rifling. Because of the tactical scale of Grenadier some of the battles are represented by crucial segments, isolated and simulated. For example the Battle of Waterloo (1815) is represented by the attack of Napoleon's Old Guard on the center of the British line, The Battle of the Pyramids (1798) by the attack of the Marmeluke cavalry on the most exposed French infantry. Several other battles such as Palo Alto (1846) from the Mexican War are covered entirely. Commanders represented include Marlborough, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Ney, Wellington, and Zachary Taylor. Some of the 16 battles depicted in Grenadier are Blenheim, Austerlitz, Marengo and Jena. Attacks are divided into fire (musket and cannon) and shock (bayonet and saber) modes. There are nine types of infantry units, three cavalry and five artillery. Grenadiers combat resolution systems depends less on chance (die rolls) than any game then yet developed.

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