Jours de Gloire Campagne IV: Allemagne 1813, de Lützen à Leipzig

About this board game

Jours de Gloire Campagne IV: Allemagne 1813, de Lützen à Leipzig is a 2–5-player Napoleonic campaign game with an approximately 120-minute playing time. It simulates the great campaigns of the Napoleonic era at the operational level and the level of Army Corps, using deliberately simple rules designed for relatively short, fluid games.

This fourth campaign focuses on Germany in 1813, after the disastrous Russian campaign forced the remnants of the Grande Armée to abandon Berlin and retreat behind the left bank of the Elbe. Napoleon rebuilt an army of 300,000 men, including the young soldiers soon known as “Marie-Louise,” while Prussia and Russia formed a coalition against France. Austria later joined the Empire’s enemies, creating a struggle across the triangle formed by Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden.

The game includes five scenarios covering different parts of the campaign:

• Waiting For the Emperor: March and April 1813
• From Lützen to Bautzen: April and May 1813
• The Spring Campaign: March to May 1813
• The Campaign of Leipzig: September to October 1813
• The German Campaign: February to November 1813

Each scenario also offers specific and optional rules, including “what-if?” situations that let players explore alternative possibilities within the campaign. The rules were upgraded to Version 2.0 for this revival of the Jours de Gloire Campagne series.

Jours de Gloire Campagne IV includes one A1 map, 216 die-cut counters, a rules and scenarios booklet, player aids, and 24 playing cards. Across its scenarios, the game presents the gigantic maneuvers and major battles of a campaign in which Napoleon’s victories were no longer decisive and a single defeat threatened to bring down his Empire.