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"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
--Arthur Wellesley
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HPS Simulations
and John Tiller are proud to announce the release of
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Fourth Installment
of the Napoleonic Battles Series |
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Four
Days to Change the World |
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On 18 June 1815, south of the small Belgian
hamlet Waterloo in what was then the Kingdom of the Netherlands, occurred
one of the most decisive battles of history. Napoleon Bonaparte hoped to
destroy the coalition armies arrayed against him by means of a quick,
decisive campaign. His plan was to defeat in detail each of his main
antagonists, the Anglo-Allied army under Field Marshal the Duke of
Wellington, and the Prussians under Generalfeldmarschall Gebhard
Leberecht Fuerst Bluecher von Wahlstatt. While this campaign encompassed
several months of the spring and summer of 1815, and ranged all along the
wide flung frontiers of France, the four days of the Waterloo campaign,
from the crossing of the Netherlands border by Napoleon’s Armée du Nord
on 15 June, the indecisive actions at Quatres Bras, Ligny and Wavre, and
the disastrous French defeat at the hands of the combined Anglo-Allied and
Prussian armies on 18 June, decided the fate of the emperor, and by
implication, the Empire.
Now you have the opportunity to take command
in this great campaign and change the course of history.
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Waterloo contains some sixty scenarios. These include the
major actions of the campaign, such as the battles of Quatres Bras and
Waterloo itself, as well as several hypothetical actions based on
alternative approach marches. Several of these scenarios place the entire
French Army against both the Anglo-Allies and the Prussians for one grand
battle of annihilation.
Units represent historical regiments, battalions, skirmisher companies and artillery batteries, as well as all major leaders and unit commanders. Players can view units in several different modes, including 3-D “miniatures” style figures or NATO style military symbols. Each map hex is 100 meters across, and each turn averages 15 minutes of real time. Players can select formations for units and employ a wide array of tactics. There are also special rules for light infantry, heavy cavalry and pioneers.
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$49.95
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Waterloo is part of the HPS’s Napoleonic Battles series of games that cover the battles and campaigns associated with the French Empire. Each game can be played versus the computer, or against a human opponent using Play-By-E-Mail and Network Play (over a Local Area Network or the Internet). A series of battles can be played together to form a complete campaign.
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"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
--George Orwell
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Supports single person play against the computer, two-person hot-seat, two-person Play-By-E-Mail, and multiplayer network play over LANs and the Internet. |
| Complete on-line Help documentation plus
on-line printable documentation in Microsoft Word format. |
Click
here to download the free Waterloo Expansion Pack #1.
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Minimum
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Pentium-based 133mhz+
PC with 32 megabytes of RAM |
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280 megabytes of hard
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Windows XP or greater (Windows is
a registered trademark of Microsoft)
"Windows" is a registered trademark of Microsoft
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$49.95
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