Landau ou la mort!: Hoche et la lutte pour l'Alsace 1793

Landau or Death! Hoche and the Struggle for the Alsace, 1793

VaeVictis issue #141 game, depecting the winter campaign of generals Hoche and Pichegru in Alsace in 1793. At the operational scale, with each unit at division level, a turn per day and 6km per hexagons, both players must battle for the control of Landau, along the Rhine.

While the French gains the initiative, the Coalition holds the grounds. Will the French be able to concentrate both his armies in the Valley of the Rhine ? Will he renew the failed attempt to crush the Prussians at Kaiserslautern ? Will the latters be able to support their allies and put an end to the campaign against the Revolution on the Rhine theater ?

With three scenarios, including a full solitaire one, the game intend to let players answer these questions.

—description from the designer (translated)

Second game of operational system La Grande Tactique (first one is Montenotte 1796 published in VaeVictis issue #128)