Vedette Wargames · Scenario apps for the tabletop · Napoleonic · Marlburian · American Civil War
The great battles, cut to your table. Or a new one every evening.
Choose your scenario and play it with friends. Each app gives you the map, both orders of battle, the objectives and the men in command. You fight it with the rules already on your table.
See the three apps · £15 each Watch a battle on the table →
The map, as the app drew it
The table we laid from itThree apps, three wars
Napoleonic, the War of the Spanish Succession or the American Civil War. Each opens in your browser and installs like an app.
Exploring Officer and The Intelligencer together, £25 (about $33) instead of £30 (about $40).
All three apps, £35 (about $47) instead of £45 (about $60). A licence key for each, two devices each.
Early release — £15 (about $20) each, £25 (about $33) for Exploring Officer and The Intelligencer together, or £35 (about $47) for all three, while the next major update is still being built, then the prices rise.
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Why you’d buy it
A battle for the army you own.
Sized to the figures most of us actually have, and cut to the table you’ve got — 8, 10, 12 or 14 ft.
Every fight has a reason.
The scenario says why both armies are here, what each must take or hold, who is attacking, and when it ends.
Real men in command.
Each commander’s card says who he was and what he had done, and rates what he can get his army to do in an hour’s fighting.
Your rules. One app. No subscription.
The scenario states the situation and leaves the mechanics to the rules on your table; the app opens in your browser and installs like any program, with no subscription and nothing to renew.
“Great scenario generator and historical battles. Gives the right level of balance between historical accuracy and play ability. Love the features like being able to enter my collection and easily see if I have enough figures for a scenario. Removed the hassle of creating games and playing non stop attacker defender two dimensional war games. Love it :)”
vedette, n. — a mounted sentry posted beyond the outposts, to watch the enemy and report what he sees.
Vedette makes scenario generators for the wargamer who reads the history. Each one is built for a single period and named for the man that period sent forward to look at the ground: the exploring officer of Wellington’s Peninsula, the intelligencer of Marlborough’s wars, the signal officer on his station above the field in the American Civil War. What comes back is a scenario you can print and play — orders of battle, a staff map, objectives — built from the sources and ready for the table.
Napoleonic Wars · 1798–1815
Exploring Officer
Pick a theatre and a table; print the scenario. Six theatres, from Egypt in 1798 to the Hundred Days, and seventeen researched battles — Austerlitz, Leipzig, Waterloo and fourteen more.
Available · Early release · £15 (about $20)
Austerlitz is the biggest of the seventeen. Most engagements are a division or two a side, and a generated action is built to the table you have. See one built to order → · Watch a minute of the app →
The Austerlitz set, all five engagements, as the app prints them. See the whole thing →
War of the Spanish Succession · 1701–14
The Intelligencer
Marlborough’s war: seven theatres — Flanders, the Danube, Valencia, the Upper Rhine, Italy, Aragon and the French frontier — that build a new action whenever you ask, and fourteen battles from First Höchstädt to Denain.
Available · Early release · £15 (about $20)
A new action every time you ask, in Flanders, on the Danube or in Valencia. See one built to order →
The Blenheim set, all four engagements, as the app prints them. See the whole thing →
American Civil War · 1861–65
Signal Officer
The war in the East and the West: seventeen battles from First Bull Run (First Manassas) to Franklin, cut into 127 engagements, and a generator that builds a new action in Tennessee in April 1862, Virginia in June 1862, Kentucky in October 1862, Virginia in December 1862, Maryland in July 1863, Georgia in September 1863 and Virginia in May 1864.
Available · Early release · £15 (about $20)
Gettysburg’s first day, staff maps and all, as the app prints it. See what else is in it →
The Gettysburg set, all 10 engagements, as the app prints them. See the whole thing →How a Vedette scenario is made
From the sources
The historical battles are built from the published orders of battle and the histories, and every scenario names what it stands on. A generated scenario has no history to cite, so its forces are built to the standard strengths of that army in that year — and where the record gives no figure for a real unit, the same standard strength supplies one, so every unit plays.
Exploring Officer, The Intelligencer and Signal Officer work this way today. The apps that follow are held to the same rule. See how it works.
Cut to your table
You say how big the table is. The scenario is fitted to it, not the other way round.
Ready to keep
Both orders of battle, the staff map with its deployment zones, objectives, victory conditions, special rules and umpire’s notes — one printed scenario, saved as a single file that will not change. That’s what to send a friend or the club.
Made by a wargamer, for wargamers
Vedette is made by a wargamer, for wargamers. I’m not a historian. The scenarios are built from the published orders of battle and the histories, with the sources cited, but they are a guide to a good game, not a work of reference: where the history and the table disagree, the table wins, and where the record is silent I have made the assumption or the substitution a playable scenario needs. If you want to argue about the numbers, the sources are there to argue with.
Exploring Officer and The Intelligencer together, £25 (about $33) instead of £30 (about $40).
All three apps, £35 (about $47) instead of £45 (about $60). A licence key for each, two devices each.
One purchase, two devices each, no subscription — it runs in your browser and prints as a staff document.
Want to hear when the next app or battle pack lands? Write to feedback@vedette-wargames.com and I will tell you.