1814: Empire's End

Quick-playing and easy to learn game on the 1814 Sixth Coalition campaign in north-eastern France to defeat Napoleon. Published as a bonus game in Against the Odds 2023 Annual, which was actually published in 2025. The Coalition player represents the three major allied armies campaigning to capture Paris, while the French player represents Napoleon's army aiming to prevent it. Players alternate marches in an IGO-UGO fashion, but must roll for reinforcements and movement abilities. Combat is bloody for both sides unless one has an overwhelming advantage. The game features forced marches at a strength point cost, the draining effects on the Coalition that may happen in screening French fortresses, and a very simple logistics model based on LOCs of a limited distance back to supply sources. The Coalition player wins if the three armies are poised to capture Paris by the end of the game (Turn 7) or if Napoleon is captured. The French player wins by avoiding this outcome. Rules are a page and a half with options for a short game (6 turns) involving 2 of the 3 Allied armies and a 3-player game (1 French player versus 2 Coalition Army players who alternate command of the 3rd Allied Army). Requires the players to provide a single D6 to play. The game contains 16 counters, a one-page map, and 2 pages of rules. Part of the ATO 2023 Annual Bundle packaged with the La Bataille de Kulm featured wargame.