La Bataille de Vauchamps, Forever known as the Goat of Waterloo, the year before, 1814, saw Grouchy's finest hour. For the casual reader who looks into the 100 Days and the Waterloo Campaign, one of the early questions is, Who (the heck) is Grouchy? Followed up by wondering why (on earth) Napoleon would give this guy a third of his army and depend on him to keep Blcher's Prussians far from Wellington? 

In context of Grouchy's performance then, it's a very reasonable question. But the answer goes back to February,1814, where - at the Battle of Vauchamps then-Cavalry-General Grouchy showed he could be extremely good at chasing Blcher. 

In 1814 the French were on the ropes. Imagine Blcher's shock at discovering Napoleon, the Ogre, again confronting him and after falling back, being hounded by Grouchy's French cavalry (with several Allied squares breaking!) 

Had the ground at Vauchamps been less muddy (allowing the French horse artillery to stay closer), things would have been even worse for the Allies. As it was, in the final count, Allied losses may have been greater than 10-1 over the French, and Blcher (once again) was very nearly captured. 

Can you do better? Find out for yourself with our La Bataille de Vauchamps game inside the 2013 ATO Annual. Designed by the original Marshal Enterprises team of Monte Matteson, Dennis Spors and James Soto, it comes with a full color, 17" x 44" map board and close to 500 colorful, die-cut counters (in the best La Bataille style), plus rules, charts and everything you need.