[1][2] The game is similar in set-up and strategy to Columbia's Dixie CCG released the previous year, [3] albeit with expanded rules, and set in the days of the Napoleonic Wars.
The game recreates Napoleon's Waterloo campaign during the Hundred Days.
[1][4] The base set has 300 cards with a total of 900 variants,[1] and the battle deck can consist of 60 or 120 cards representing the French, British, Dutch and Prussian regiments.
[1] Every card was individually available or sold as a complete set via direct order from the company.
[1][2] In the August 1996 edition of Dragon (Issue 232), Rick Swan liked the game, saying, "It isn't fantasy, you say, but who cares?