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Champs De Bataille Ii: La Bataille De Kadesh box art
1997 Ranked #16,538

Champs De Bataille Ii: La Bataille De Kadesh

Maneuver forces across tactical or historical battle maps.

Wargames Ancient Wargame Hexagon Grid Simulation

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.11/5

Rating

6.79

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Champs de Bataille is designed to simulate the fighting between armies of widely differing types over a long period of history.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Simulation

Model a real or imagined system through detailed cause-and-effect rules.
Hexagon Grid

Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
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Champs de Bataille is designed to simulate the fighting between armies of widely differing types over a long period of history. In this Battle for Kadesh in 1300 before Christ, is the first battle of the history of the humanity, and it sees the victory of ambitious conqueror Egyptian Ramsés II.

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Type

1
Wargames

Category

2
Ancient Wargame

Mechanism

3
Dice Rolling Hexagon Grid Simulation

Family

6
Ancient: Egypt Ancient: Mesopotamia Components: DTP (Desktop Publishing) History: Wars in the Ancient Near East Magazine: Vae Victis Players: Two-Player Only Games

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2
Best with
1–2
Play time
180 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

4
Philip C. Barker Stéphane Martin Théophile Monnier Dominique Sanches

Artists

3
Didier Bourgeois Christophe Camilotte Giuseppe Rava

Publishers

1
Vae Victis

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