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The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm

  • Description

    From the Publisher:

    These four games explore the major battles of 1806-07, where the French Army encountered two different opponents with different capabilities, from the leadership-challenged Prussians in Saxony to the chaotic battle conditions in winter against the Russians. Based on OSG's Special Studies, which provide a turn by turn narrative of the four battles. Each game shows the approach to the battlefield on the day before battle. The Jena-Auerstädt game has both battlefields on one map and allows both sides to re-deploy before battle. Set at the scale of Napoleon's Last Battles-525 yards per hex and one hour turns-the game retains the Command System of Commanders and Corps Officers.

    BATTLES SIMULATED
    JENA-AUERSTÄDT-13-14 October 1806
    PULTUSK/GOLYMIN-24-25 December 1806
    EYLAU-7-8 February 1807
    FRIEDLAND-13-14 June 1807

    DESCRIPTION
    Napoleon's Last Battles system, following Four Lost Battles: 525 yards (480 meters) per hex, 1 hour per turn, 500-800 men per strength point. Each game lasts about 40 turns.

    COMPONENTS
    Four 22 x 34" full-color maps
    Two Rulebooks (36 pages and 24 pages)
    One 2" game box
    Two counter sheets = 560 units
    Three player aid sheets
    Four player aid cards
    Two decks of 50 playing cards = 100 cards

    GAME SYSTEM
    Napoleon's Last Battles (NLB-Series)
    - scale = 480m/hex,
    - time = 1hour/GT,
    - strength = 500-800 men/SP.

    AFTER ACTION REPORT

    AAR of The Coming Storm / Jena-Auerstädt
    by Andy Gebhardt

    Read the whole AAR here (including turn-by-turn situation maps): http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?7@458.5fJ0bf2t0i6.77@.1dd0aa27/1690

    I did a playtest on Kevin's newly designed "The Coming Storm". As a German grown up about 100 mi, now working about 100 mi apart, it was an absolute MUST to take care of the Jena scenario. I've passed the battlefield several times during the last years ...
    ... All in all my final verdict is clear and straight:
    TCS is an absolute "excellent" game worth all the bits of craftsmanship put into it.


    2013 Update kit components:

    • "Library of Napoleonic Studies" Rules of Play (Series Rules 6.5) - 28 pages (2013)
    • Scenario/Historical Notes - 32 pages (2010)
    • Rule leaflet "18.0 Adding the Cards" - 4 pages (2010)
    • Combat Tables/Terrain Effects Tables - 4 pages (no date)
    • Turn record Track (2011)
    • Casualty record Track (no date)

    [Note: no change to maps & counters]


    Microbadge: mb

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