Kevin Zucker (Operational Studies Group) is back!

Good news for all Napoleonic wargamers.
Operational Studies Group (NapoleonGames.com) is back in business after a small break. Kevin Zucker is designing THE COMING STORM, a new Quadrigame centered around the War of the Fourth Coalition. October 1806 - June 1807.

Taken from the THE COMING STORM web page

BATTLES SIMULATED
JENA-AUERSTÄDT 13-14 October 1806
PULTUSK/GOLYMIN 24-25 December 1806
EYLAU 7-8 February 1807
FRIEDLAND 13-14 June 1807

These four games explore the major battles of 1806-07, where the French Army encountered two different opponents with different capabilities, from the leadership-challenged Prussians in Saxony to the chaotic battle conditions in winter against the Russians. Based on OSG's Special Studies, which provide a turn by turn narrative of the four battles. Each game shows the approach to the battlefield on the day before battle. The Jena-Auerstädt game has both battlefields on one map and allows both sides to re-deploy before battle. Set at the scale of Napoleon's Last Battles-525 yards per hex and one hour turns-the game retains the Command System of Commanders and Corps Officers.

DESCRIPTION
Napoleon's Last Battles System, following Four Lost Battles: 525 yards (480 meters) per hex, 1 hour per turn, 500-800 men per strength point. Each game lasts about 40 turns.

COMPONENTS
Four 22 x 34" full-color maps
Two Rulebooks (36 pages and 24 pages)
One 2" game box
Two counter sheets = 560 units
Three player aid sheets
Four player aid cards
Two decks of 50 playing cards = 100 cards

Kevin is taking now pre-orders with a 30%-off the retail price, at $92.00 (plus shipping). The Quadrigame is scheduled for September 10, 2010.

A new boardgame from Kevin Zucker

The postman arrived with "The Habit of Victory", the last boardgame form Operational Studies Group.
* Campaigns of Napoleon System, Series 2X. Game Mechanics are the same as Napoleon at the Crossroads, with the addition of the cards.
* Card Assisted Game (CAG) plays with far fewer dice rolls, and quickeroverall.
* Each card represents a Movement Command specifying attrition, administration, etc., and allows for one-time events such as: political, military, officer feuds, and guerilla war. Because they define Movement more closely, the cards make attrition a matter of a quick read-off at a glance.
* Three short introductory scenarios simulate the battles of Pultusk/Golymin, Eylau, and Friedland.
* Three full-sized campaign scenarios depict the three phases of the war-the Crossing of the Bug and Battles of Pultusk and Golymin, the campaign and battle of Eylau in February, and the final miscalculation by Bennigsen at Friedland.
* A massive Grand Scenario of up to 69 turns.
* During major battles entire armies can be concentrated under just a few leaders. At other times units can be dispersed independently along with Cavalry Vedettes which help confuse the enemy.

The game covers the 1806-07 winter Campaign of Napoleon at Poland so its subject is far from the Campaign of Leipizg. My interest in this boardgame lies on the cards which I plan to use in combination with "Napoleon at the Crossroads". At this moment there are no plans at OSG to launch a set of cards for use with this last game, so many thinking will be necessary to carry out the adaptation.