Nations in Arms: Valmy To Waterloo - Compass Games.

The result is that Nations in Arms is an entirely new, and very playable, Napoleonic epic from designer Stanislas Thomas. Players control every major and minor power of the Napoleonic period: from the largest participants to the smallest. This allows anywhere from 2 to 7 players to participate in the game.

Posts about Nations in Arms written by Robert Ware. The next entry in my Another Step to the Singularity series. This time I’m going Napoleonic with a piece on Compass Games’ Nations in Arms.

Nations In Arms Labels. admin (1) After Action Reports (2) AWI (10) For Sale (2) General d'Armee (5) Grand Alliance (22) Lily Banners (16) Napoleonic (10). A couple of the games are quite large and would suit a day long club game, the majority though are suitable for a typical 3-4 hour evening bash. Here are three of the photos that didn't.

Nations in Arms brings one of the most famous periods in history to your gaming table: the French Revolution and the legend of Napoleon in Europe, from 1792 to 1815.This epic treatment of the Napoleonic period covers 24 years of warfare at the strategic level. Nations in Arms uses a extensively updated, modified and streamlined version of the Le Grand Empire game system from Pratzen Editions.

Nations in Arms uses a extensively updated, modified and streamlined version of the Le Grand Empire game system from Pratzen Editions. The result is that Nations in Arms is an entirely new, and very playable, Napoleonic epic from designer Stanislas Thomas. Players: 2 - 7.

Nations in Arms uses a extensively updated, modified and streamlined version of the Le Grand Empire game system from Pratzen Editions (that game covered the 1800-1815 time period). The result is that Nations in Arms is an entirely new, and very playable, Napoleonic epic from designer Stanislas Thomas.

Conflict of Nations is a free-to-play browser-based strategy game, where modern global warfare is waged in real-time against dozens of other players, in campaigns spanning days or even weeks. You are in control of the armed forces of one of the leading nations of this world, responsible for its military expansion, economic development, technological research and foreign diplomacy.

Whilst the game was enjoyable enough and played in a great spirit amongst old friends, I found myself trying to appreciate the differences between these three periods, separated by almost 150 years of history. And I couldn't. All the games were played in the same way using the same tactics, which were essentially driven by the rule system itself.

Nations in Arms brings one of the most famous periods in history to your gaming table: the French Revolution.

The game captures the feel of modern naval warfare as the combatant’s jockey for position to get that first big hit without losing your assets in the process. The interplay of air-surface and submarines in the combat sequence does come across as a good model of the combined arms approach as systems can often be countered with the right unit.

Holdfast: Nations At War is an online multiplayer first and third person shooter focusing on a combination of teamwork and individual skill. Take part in historic clashes on land and at sea waged by the most powerful nations during the great Napoleonic Era.

As you can see it is a card-driven game that is based on a point-to-point moving system. The map is rather a Plain Jane with all the information needed, but somewhat bland. The counters are not what I have come to expect from Compass Games. They are easy to read, but to me they seem a little thinner and the color scheme is downright ugly.