Manoeuvre

Command a Napoleonic-era army with a national card deck and out-manoeuvre your opponent on a modular battlefield.

Designer: Jeff Horger
Published by: GMT Games

Manoeuvre is a fast two-player battlefield game set in the early nineteenth century. The map is a chessboard-sized battlefield built from geomorphic boards, and each of you commands one of eight armies of the era: France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, Prussia or the United States. Your army is eight units and a sixty-card national deck, and the cards carry that nation's own troops and special strengths. You move, you fight one-on-one battles, and you try to out-manoeuvre the other general before the dice and cards catch up with you. It plays in about an hour and gets high marks from wargamers, because every nation really does play a bit differently. Only for two.

Eight nations with their own sixty-card decksModular, chessboard-sized battlefieldsOne-on-one dice battles

Who it's for

You and a friend want a Napoleonic wargame that is more compact and quicker than the big hex-and-counter classics.

Not for you if…

You want more than two players or you dislike dice in your battles. It is a pure two-player duel with some luck.

Vibe's take

Tactical and tense, with a wargame brain in a compact package. Each nation's deck gives a different personality, and the cards force you to plan around what you can actually do.