Your lines of retreat are located either on your left flank (grid 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the board), your center (grid 5, 6, 7 or 8 of the board) or on your right flank (grid 9, 10, 11 or 12 of the board).īefore the game can start, both players will blindly choose a Line of Retreat card from the deck in order to fi nd out where their lines of retreat lie. In Stratego: Waterloo it's also crucial to defend your lines of retreat during a battle. If these lines of retreat-or lines of communication-were severed, they would be cut off from their homeland, reserve troops, supplies and hospitals resulting in crippling losses and almost certainly the end of the campaign. They formed an uninterrupted chain between their capital city and the territory they were moving in. The first player that succeeds in getting at least two of his units on the opponent's lines of retreat, wins the battle and thus the game.ĭuring the Napoleonic Wars it was standard practice that the moving armies were followed by their supply and Artillery trains, mobile field hospitals and potential reinforcements. The first player that succeeds in severing the lines of retreat of the opposite player gains a decisive victory and thus wins the game! Obviously, the game is also lost if a player loses his commander and commander in chief, because he will not be able to perform any actions anymore. The Battle Die is taken out and put next to the board.ĭepending on the game that will be played, the Maneuver cards, Terrain tiles, Ownership fl ags and Building counters are taken out of the box (Standard or Expert) or left in the box (Basic). The Turn counter is put on the timeline on the side of the board - on the field "11 o'clock". The Line of Retreat cards are shuffled and put on the side of the table next to the board. Take the 13 Prussian pieces, shuffle them and put them on the side of the board in such a way that the units are invisible to both players. The French player takes his 47 pieces and the Allied player takes his 45 pieces out of the box. The French player must sit on the side of the board with the French flag, the Allied player on the side of the board with the flag of the United Kingdom. Play as either Napoleon or Wellington and lead your infantry and cavalry into the fray, set up your artillery to wreak havoc on your opponents position! Relive and refight this epic but bloody battle: storm or bombard the farm of Hougemont, let your heavy cavalry charge down in a wild frenzy or let your brave marshal lead your excited troops into that gap in order to sever the enemy's lines of communications.Īs Wellington, will you stand your ground and wait for the arrival of the Prussian reinforcements or will you take the inititiative and make the most of every mistake the French make? As Napoleon, will you start the battle early but with less troops or will you use your entire force to knock those British, Germans and Dutch from that ridge? YOU decide the destiny of Europe.Īlthough great care has been taken to offer the players a good ‘feel’ of the historical battle, the movable terrain tiles invite you to create and play any fictional battle.The game board is put in the middle of the table in-between both players.
Thanks to the basic, standard and expert game rules it will provide both casual and expert gamers an hour to an hour and a half of battlefield excitement. Stratego Waterloo is a highly flexible tactical board game specially designed to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
Will you succeed in punching through Wellington’s lines before the arrival of the Prussians or will you, as Napoleon did, "Meet your Waterloo"? Relive and refight the Battle of Waterloo by leading your troops on as either Emperor Napoleon or the Duke of Wellington.
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