Trapping the Ogre

Trapping the Ogre is the sixteenth game in the Pocket Battle Games series from LPS, Inc. This battlefield saw the Coalition units battling to seize the only practical line of retreat open to the French, and if successful, trapping them for a truly "Napoleonic" style victory in reverse. Trapping the Ogre is a mini-game, postcard sized. Rules at the back, map front and 16 double sided counters along the sides. The game is a hex and counter game where troops are activated though a standard deck of cards: black activates French units, red Coalition. How many and all is determined by the specific card. Combat is resolved by comparing combat strengths of the units and drawing cards from that same deck. Whenever a joker is drawn, the turn is over, the deck is reshuffled and a new turn begins. Player who controls (occupies or last to occupy) Star hex (J7) wins the game.