Napoleon's Battles 3rd Edition

The new Napoleon's Battles 3rd edition (NB-III) has arrived at home. My copy is numbered #22, and it is signed by Coggins and Craig (the designers of the original NB). NB-III is edited by Lost Battalion Games (LBG), in whose web-site you could find more information Napoleon's Battles.
NB-III comes in a large, black, game box and contains:
- Full color rules and reference books.
- 15 player aid cards: 2 Game Cards, 2 Sequence of Play cards, 2 Artillery Fire Templates, 2 Spread Artillery Fire Templates, 2 Terrain Markers, 1 Artillery Spread Formation Spread Templates, 1 Brigade Skirmish Spread Template, 2 Manoeuver Template and a time record chart card.
- Information cards for Austria, Bavaria and Saxony, Britain, Confederation, France, Iberian states, Italian states, Low Countries, Poalnd and Wurttemberg, Ottoman Empire, Prussia, Russia, Scandinavian states, Westphalian states.
- 12 full color scenarios cards covering the battles of: Valmy 1792, Novi 1799, Marengo 1800, Auerstadt 1806, Raab 1809, Talavera 1809, Albuera 1811, Gorodetschna 1812, Lutzen 1813, Craonne 1814, Quatre Bras 1815 and Waterloo 1815
- 160 8mm cubed wooden Markers: Half Move, No Move, React, Rout, Disorder, Free Rolls, Limbered and No Supplies. 26 wooden discs for Mystery Deployment, Initiative and Turn Record and two ten-Sided dice.
- One CD containing a database for generals and pdf files for the Scenarios and labels.

Besides the new formating of the material (including a welcome increasing of the font size!) making it more easily to manage , the inclusion of the CD and wooden markers, and some minor artistic licenses (the bases show 9 10mm figures in 3 files of 3 ranks), NB-III IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING THAN NB-II. Therefore it will be somewhat disappointing for those gamers expecting new and radical variations, and a must for old freaks of NB like me!