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Designed By	Lance Gutteridge Tom Dalgliesh
Art By	Eric Hotz
Published By	Columbia Games Gamma Two Games
Year Published	1973
# of Players:	2 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (5 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	2 (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
Category	Wargame
Mechanic	Point to Point Movement Secret Unit Deployment
Primary Name	War of 1812
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War of 1812 Depicts the American-British struggle for control of the Great Lakes 1812-14. The roles of navies, infantry and cavalry are depicted. Uses the "block" system for hidden units / fog of war.

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New	$30.95	1-Nov-2009
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New	C $44.00	24-Aug-2009
Like New	€34.00	26-Dec-2007

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0	General Williamsburg, NY	2009-09-19	fractaloon	3
19	Sessions War ends. Albany burns.	2009-08-06	Rindu	7
1	Rules Recording Artillery, Dragoon, and Indian movement in Simo-Move?	2009-07-23	krakonos	2
0	General This game is hard to win!!	2009-05-19	aro246	1
0	General Game Length - Playing Time?	2009-05-08	MonkeyMagic	3
4	General War of 1812 or Quebec 1759?	2009-05-07	MonkeyMagic	7
0	General Other CDN content	2009-04-03	Talisinbear	6
0	Rules Lake Control?	2009-02-19	anarchy	1
0	Rules Some questions after our first game	2009-01-26	stormseek...	3
1	Strategy Hints for US player	2009-01-08	nightbomber	1

	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
Liberty	Quebec 1759	Rommel in the Desert	Pacific Victory
Bobby Lee

Standard Recommendations
Napoleon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815	MedFront	Gettysburg: Badges of Courage	Victoria Cross
EastFront	WestFront	A House Divided	Dixie - Bull Run
Hammer of the Scots	Crusader Rex	Eagles: Waterloo

Weak Recommendations
Lightning: D-Day	Guadalcanal (Smithsonian Edition)	Storm Over Arnhem	We the People
War At Sea	Victory in the Pacific	The Barbarians

Very Weak Recommendations
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Achival file: rules for "v2" of War of 1812

Columbia games recently released the third edition of their game War of 1812, and at the same time removed the rules for the second edition from their web page. I am posting the 2nd edition rules here for archival purposes. Special thanks to Grant @ CG for sending me this file and giving permission to post.

kostek

2008-07-22

1812mapsummary.pdf

1812 Suspended Game -- Map and Unit Placement Summary

rabdwombat

2007-01-29

War of 1812.doc

Simultaneous orders sheet

msaya

2005-07-15

War_of_1812_Chinese.pdf

Chinese translation for the rules

WalterLai

2005-05-14

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Board Game Rank:	651
Wargame Rank:	161
Num Ratings:	331
Average Rating:	7.06
Standard Deviation:	1.21
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.3
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Personal Comments:	184
Users Owning:	506
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Video review of War of 1812	http://www.columbiagames.com/resources/3002/warof1...	2009-10-09
GM Web Site for War of 1812 at the World Boardgaming Championships	http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rabdwombat/war1812.ht...	2007-01-23
Deer Valley Games, new rules, counters, battleboard	http://www.dvgc.com/gamekits.html	2006-02-27
Columbia Games' page	http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoo...	2005-02-23
Session Report on Chris Farrell's weblog	http://homepage.mac.com/c_farrell/iblog/C209722158...	2004-06-29
World Boardgaming Championships War of 1812 Event Preview/Results	http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook/812pge.htm	2003-10-13

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