From: "David S. Bieksza" <bieksza@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
Subject: SPI Ad: Grenadier (7/8)

GRENADIER
(Tactical Warfare:  1680-1850)

* Tactical game of musket-bayonet warfare
* Sixteen famous battles are depicted ...
* Covering warfare from Blenheim to Palo Alto

_Grenadier_ is a company/battery/squadron scale game of warfare in the 
period of the dominance of cannon and musket.  The game depicts sixteen 
famous battles from the introduction of the bayonet to the invention of 
rifling.  Because of the tactical scale of _Grenadier_, some of the 
battles are represented by crucial segments, isolated and simulated.  For 
example, the Battle of Waterloo (1815) is represented by the attack of 
Napoleon's Old Guard on the center of the British line.  The Battle of 
Pyramids (1798) is represented by the attack of the Mameluke cavalry on 
the most exposed French infantry.  Several other battles such as Palo 
Alto (1846) from the Mexican War are covered entirely.  Commanders 
represented include Marlborough, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Ney, 
Wellington, and Zachary Taylor.  Some of the 16 battles depicted in 
_Grenadier_ are Blenheim, Austerlitz, Marengo, and Jena.  Attacks are 
divided into fire (musket and cannon) and shock (bayonet and sabre) 
modes.  There are nine types of infantry units, three cavalry and five 
artillery.  _Grenadier's_ combat resolution system depends less on chance 
(die rolls) than any game yet developed.

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Dave Bieksza                 bieksza@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu 
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