As ABBA remind us every time our sappy female relatives get out the Greatest Hits CD, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender. Recreate this most famous of battles with a wargame from Mayfair Games.
Wargames can be really hard to get going with: sometimes there are so many rules, pieces and options that you’ll want to give up and start a video game version instead. But Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Battle is not one of the hardest games to get a grip on, even if the rules are not perfectly written. The game’s very good-looking and the pieces are of excellent quality. Attack and defense is based on a hand of cards dealt to you at the beginning and it can take some time deciding what to do on your turn. Wargames are seldom quick affairs though, so this probably isn’t a bad point.
