La Grande Armée (wargame)

[5] In the 1977 book The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming, Nicholas Palmer commented on the "rather bare map", but complimented the "four hundred varied counters from different nations featuring in well-designed scenarios from 1805 to 1809."

Palmer ascribed the game's success and popularity to "a simple basic system giving the special problems of war in this period: depots and supply; cavalry screening; fortresses; forced marches; [and] individual tactical abilities of leaders.

"[5] In Issue 11 of Moves (October/November 1973), Martin Campion thought the "three scenarios are very well put together, with some of the political factors included by such provisions as a possible Prussian intervention in the 1805 campaign."

"[2] In Issue 52 of Moves (August/September 1980), Ian Chadwick thought the map was "old and drab by today's standards" but he found that "The game is always fluid and interesting."

I have used the 1806 scenario with some simplification of the rules, and with the players at both sides sitting at separate boards where they could not see their opponents' dispositions or actions [...] The result was very realistic regarding the conditions of warfare at the time, although the French group in my class did not include any Napoleons, and so they lost rather badly.

Freeman noted that "The system places a premium on the Napoleonic ideal of dispersal for movement and concentration for battle.".