Teach and Play available!
Yesterday, I had the honour of participating in SDHistCon Second Front with a Teach and Play session of Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars. The event was hosted by the excellent Homo Ludens channel.
Regolamento e Player Aid in italiano!
Sono disponibili per essere scaricati dalla pagina del gioco, ma per i più pigri anche dai link qui sotto, il regolamento e il player aid in lingua italiana di Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars.
We have a shop!
After the big success at PLAY – Festival del gioco, the time has come for everyone to enjoy the first two releases from Ingenioso Hidalgo. As of today – no, actually since the day before yesterday – you can purchase Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars and/or Un altro passo nella neve from our online shop.
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.
Introducing “Un altro passo nella neve”
While preparations are in full swing to close Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars (wooden components arrived from Poland yesterday!), it is time to make official the second item in the Ingenioso Hidalgo catalogue.
Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars draft rulebook available!
Today I was planning to post an article on the unit command system, but in the end I thought I would post the game rules directly.
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…