Napoleon had now taken the “strategy of the central position” and moved to defeat the Anglo-Allied forces himself while he dispatched Marshal Grouchy to follow the Prussians with 33,000 men and prevent them from rejoining with Wellington’s army.

On the same day, they also defeated the British at the Battle of Quatre Bras, pushing them north. On June 16, the French defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, driving them east. The campaign started on June 15 when the French Army of the North crossed the border. Napoleon, seeing that a defensive war was a losing proposition, decided to launch a preemptive strike into Belgium to defeat in detail the Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies and then take Brussels, in hopes of swinging the francophone Belgians to his side. Five days later Britain, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, and the German States formed the Seventh Coalition and declared war on France with the goal of removing the Emperor from power once again.īy the end of May French forces totaling about 250,000 men faced allied forces of some 850,000 men on four fronts. Napoleon returned from exile on Elba and entered Paris on March 20 to resume control of France, starting the so-called One Hundred Days.

Wellington’s army was reinforced late in the battle by around 48,000 Prussian troops led by Field Marshall Gebhard von Blucher. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18, 1815, between a veteran French army of some 70,000 men led by the Emperor Napoleon and an Anglo-Allied army of about 67,000 led by Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. ( The battle’s 200th anniversary was on June 18 Slitherine’s Twitch channel carried a live, hour-by-hour presentation of the clash, using this game to simulate it.-Editor) Unlike the other games in the series that focused on the American Civil War, with battles like Gettysburg, Brandy Station and Chancellorsville, this game examines the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. Scourge of War: Waterloo ( Scourge: Waterloo) is another superlative entry into the Scourge of War series of real-time strategy (RTS) games by Norb Development Software. Passed Inspection: Excellent AI, high historical accuracy, high replay value, highly flexible.įailed Basic: Steep learning curve (reading the manual and playing the tutorials are required), high price compared to other games in the series. Developer: Norb Development Software, Inc. Publishers: Matrix Games, Inc and Slitherine, Ltd. Scourge of War: Waterloo – PC Game Review By Patrick Baker

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