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Wavre: The Lost Opportunity box art
1976 Ranked #17,168

Wavre: The Lost Opportunity

Maneuver forces across tactical or historical battle maps.

Wargames Napoleonic Wargame Hexagon Grid Ratio / Combat Results Table

Players

1-2

Play time

120-240 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2.4/5

Rating

6.27

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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Wavre The Lost Opportunity Grouchy was ordered to pursue the Prussians and prevent them from joining Wellington.

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Wavre The Lost Opportunity Grouchy was ordered to pursue the Prussians and prevent them from joining Wellington. In the afternoon of 18 June 1815, while Napoleon Bonaparte was fighting his last battle on the fields of Waterloo, Marshal Grouchy fought Thielmann's Prussian army corps near the village of Wavre. While Grouchy won the battle of Wavre, he failed to stop the Prussians from coming to the aid of Wellington at Waterloo. The rest is history... Included in the Napoleon's Last Battles Quadrigame. It was also sold separately as a folio game. Folio version includes rules, a 17" x 22" map and 100 counters.

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
1–2
Play time
120–240 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.4/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Jay A. Nelson Kevin Zucker

Artists

1
Redmond A. Simonsen

Publishers

1
SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)

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