Who plays Napoleon in Europe?

Let’s see…
*Formula De’, along with 20 open wheel and 36 Gt cars. Painted of course.
*Star Trek Starship combat sim.
*Car wars
*Air Force with Dauntless expansion from Avalon Hill. Now using 700 scale miniatures.
*Firefly and Battletech

I picked it up a year or two ago…Its alot of fun. I need to play it more.

Its a cross between of Shogun and Fortress America. The are clarity issues with the rules.
I did buy extra colored dice. As the territory you are defending one determines what die you roll on.

mountain terrain is gray use gray d12
forest terrain is green use green d10
all other is d8 defense and attacking unless you use a card that changes your attack or defend die.

I created a draw deck place mat based on someone else’s that helped game play with rules when you had papal disfavor drawing less cards.

http://www.conquestgaming.com/warlords/

FAQ and additional scenarios.

Pulled some stuff off of game geek that helped clear up things.

this helped alot.

Warlords of Europe
S R McDougall, 26th May 2010 V1.1
Setup

• Each player takes 1 castle, 2 warlords, 2 knights, 2 archers,
2 swordsmen, 12 spearmen

• Each player rolls 1d8 and chooses Initiative card
(highest roller first)

• In Initiative Order: choose a Kingdom

• In Initiative Order: place castle in any region of Kingdom and 1
warlord in any other fief in Kingdom

• In Initiative Order: distribute remaining units between castle and warlord areas

Sequence of Play

Each player completes (i) – (iv) in Initiative Order:
P(i) Campaign Manoeuvres (Attacks)
P(ii) Resolve Battles
P(iii) Manoeuvre Reserves (Strategic Move)
P(iv) Draw Conquest Card if any fiefs conquered

Then complete Group Phases one at a time in Initiative Order
G(i) Draw Pope Card and check for Victory
G(ii) Play Taxation cards and receive Income
G(iii) Buy units, castles, and/or mercenaries
G(iv) Place units, castles and/or mercenaries in friendly fiefs
G(v) Roll 1d8 (upgradable to d10 or d12) and determine
new Initiative Order
G(vi) Buy 1 Merchant card for 4 gold if desired in new Initiative Order

Victory:

• If player owns more than half the completed castles on the board
(all castles in 2P games) and every other player has had at least 1
subsequent turn

Player Actions

P(i) Campaign Manoeuvres (Attacks)
• Move units onto borders of non-friendly neighbouring fiefs
– generally units move 1 area only
– knights and warlords can move 2 areas but must stop when
entering non-friendly area
• warlord can pick up and take other units along with him
• Note that a friendly fief remains friendly only if at least 1 friendly unit is
present at the end of the player turn (so you can safely vacate a fief temporarily)

P(ii) Resolve Battles (NB 15 unit maximum in mountains at end of turn)
• Resolve one battle at a time: consult hit table on summary card
• An empty fief is defended by peasants (= no. of cities present)

• Archers roll first and casualties removed
– archers attacking a castle fief only hit on 6 or higher
– archers defending a castle fief hit on 4 or higher
• Other soldiers then roll and casualties removed
• Attacker generally rolls 1d8 per unit
• Defenders generally rolls 1d8 in red plains
1d8 in orange farmlands
1d10 in green forests/unfinished castles
1d12 in grey mountains/finished castles
• Defender chooses casualties first
• Repeat battle rounds as necessary or until attacker retreats
– retreats are to a single adjacent departure area
• Mutual annihilation: fief reverts to peasant control
– unless castle present: defender places a free spearman

• Warlord must be last casualty in a peasant battle
– return to a friendly castle not to stock

• Warlord chosen as a casualty in a player battle
– captured by enemy and placed in any enemy castle
– only returned to owner via negotiation/card play/rescue

• If a castle fief captured
– place construction token if castle was finished (damage)
– draw a bonus Conquest card
– collect 15 gold from treasury if loser still owns a castle
• 30 gold plus all opponents cards and gold if not
– buy and/or hire and deploy soldier units immediately into
any friendly castles if desired

P(iii) Manoeuvre Reserves (Strategic Move)
• Move any/all units that did not attack during P(i)
– even into newly-conquered fief

• 15 soldiers maximum in any mountain fief at turn end
– no limit if fief is a castle fief

P(iv) Draw 1 Conquest Card if any fiefs conquered this turn

Group Phases

G(i) Draw Pope Card and check for Victory
• Resolve any “Immediately” cards drawn
• Note that “Papal Disfavour” cards played against a player can be
ignored but at a cost (place card face-up in front of disfavoured player):
– 1st disfavour: cannot draw a Pope card
– 2nd disfavour: cannot draw a Pope/Merchant card
– 3rd disfavour: cannot draw any type of card

G(ii) Play Taxation cards and receive Income
• Must control at least 1 castle to receive income. No castle: no income
– 1 gold in red plains
– 3 gold in orange farmlands
– 2 gold in green forests
– 1 gold in grey mountains
– 12 gold for a finished castle if entire host Kingdom controlled
– 6 gold for any castle if player controls more fiefs in host
Kingdom than any other single player
• no additional bonus for having more than 1 castle in any
  single Kingdom

G(iii) Buy units, castles, and/or mercenaries
• You may only build 1 castle per Kingdom
– costs 6 gold to start (add construction token)
– costs 6 gold to finish in a later turn (remove construction token)
• Cannot buy new warlords if any of your existing warlords is a prisoner
• Hire mercenaries (no mercenary warlords allowed)
– cost = unit price + 1 gold
– all mercenaries must be paid for every turn or are lost
• Spearmen are not limited by the counter mix (add chips if necessary)
• Other units are limited by the counter mix
– mercenaries are the way to gain additional archers, knights,
and swordsmen (use chips to signify these)

G(iv) Place units, castles and/or mercenaries in friendly fiefs
• Build/finish castles
• Only 1 soldier (but unlimited mercenaries) can be placed in a single fief
– knights and warlords can only be placed in castle fiefs
• A castle fief can have an unlimited number of units placed there
– unless it was newly built this turn: in which case 1 unit only
• 4 extra spearmen placed in any fief(s) in a wholly owned Kingdom

G(v) Roll 1d8 (upgradable to d10 or d12) and determine
new Initiative Order
• Upgrade to 1d10 for 2 gold or any 1 card
• Upgrade to 1d12 for 4 gold, any 2 cards, or 2 gold plus 1 card

G(vi) Buy 1 Merchant card for 4 gold if desired in new Initiative Order

Player Elimination

• If no more castles owned by a player
– may choose to resign (pieces remain on board)
– may play on (no income but cards can still be drawn)
– however, conquering player can force your units to become his
vassals (i.e. come over to his side)
• must pay gold to treasury to buy all non-mercenary
vassals

shoot me a pm with your email. Ill send you stuff I worked on and save you the hassle.

True, but personally I find coloured wooden blocks more aesthetically satisfying than Post-it notes.  I wouldn’t necessarily buy the blocks from scratch just for that purpose…but since I already have them in my collection, it’s easy to put them to use in this manner.

The part about the Post-it notes brings back fond memories of that Hitler rant video (now sadly taken down) in which his officers suggest ways in which he can compensate for the lack of sufficient Japanese tac bombers in Pacific 1940.  One officer advocates the use of poker chips, to which Hitler replies that if he wanted to use poker chips he’d play freaking poker.  Another officer proposes the use of pieces of paper with unit names written on it, to which Hitler replies that he didn’t pay 150 euros for a freaking Glenn Drover game.  (That second joke is a bit unfair.  I own Glenn Drover’s two Attack games, and while I admit that the design of the plastic pieces isn’t to my liking, at least they’re made out of plastic rather than paper.)

Just in case anyone needs parts, or would like to build a game for way less than the $170-200 complete games are going for. This does raise a question. Why would anyone replace the pieces with Battue pieces to be left with an all cavalry variant?

http://m.ebay.com/itm/NAPOLEON-IN-EUROPE-Board-Game-Eagle-Games-War-Strategy-INCOMPLETE-FOR-PARTS-/321864463300?nav=SEARCH

Ireland wasn’t partitioned until 1921, so this isn’t strictly accurate for 1919.

Hard to say, really. HoI3 has a lot more to it, and splits units even further, so that when you build your divisions you decide what types of brigades make them up. Also in HoI3, the war system is changed a bit, so that you have to have your neutrality at a certain point depending upon the other nation’s threat level before being able to declare war on them, whereas in HoI2, you could just go for it, but risk that a major power stops your expansionism if you hit someone whose independence they have guaranteed. If you plan on ever playing a minor power, then don’t bother trying to do it in HoI3, it’ll take you 12 months solid to be able to hit anyone else, regardless of which nation you pick. If you plan on only doing the bigger countries that were involved in WW3, then it won’t make a difference.

HoI3 also has more glitches to it, but you can expect them to be fixed by patching.

Really, it depends on if HoI3 is too much micromanagement for you to handle, or if you want to ever play a minor power such as bulgaria or brazil.

Just found this cool CATAN site.

You can play a browser based CATAN game for FREE.

Good time killer!

http://introgame.playcatan.com/

You could probably get a good price for the original cartridge.

I just picked up the DS version.  Pretty classic.