1814: The Norwegian War of Independence

During the Napoleonic wars, the Kingdoms of Denmark-Norway and Sweden found themselves on opposite sides, and fought several skirmishes in the border areas between the countries. This game deals with the 1814 campaign (a 1808 scenario will be provided later).

The game is a low-complexity wargame, with units representing battalions of infantry (about 350-400 men), batteries of artillery and squadrons of dragoons and cavalry (about 75-100 men). The Swedes have regular cavalry units like hussars, the Norwegians have dragoons and mounted jaegers. The Swedes enjoy better training, better supplies and more fire power, the Norwegians have advantages in mobility and skirmish ability, employing ski troops and light infantry (jaegers/sharpshooters).

The game map uses point-to-point movement and covers the border area between Norway and Sweden from Frederikshald (Halden) to Trondheim. The Swedish objective is to break the Norwegian lines and capture Christiania (Oslo), the border forts, (and perhaps Trondheim if they choose to try. The Norwegian objective is to prevent the Swedes from winning by inflicting enough casualties and delay the Swedes long enough to force negotiations to start.

The game was originally released in 2018 as a zip-lock, hex-based system with a print run of just 100. (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300929/norwegian-war-independence-1807-1814). The game has been completely redesigned and is in reality a completely new game on the same topic, rather than a new version of the old game.

This is the first game in the Scandinavian Wars Trilogy from Pantero Games.