Tabletop Time Machine
1971 CAMPAIGN
There was a great boom in the production and playing of board games in the 1960s and ‘70s. Electronic gaming hadn’t quite taken hold yet and board gamers had plenty of choice. Waddingtons produced a vast number of games for the casual family games market but it also produced a few more strategic titles. Campaign was a game that stands out as a mainstream strategy-based wargame.
Campaign offered a game for two to four players with campaigns based, quite tentatively, on the Napoleonic Wars. The game included a booklet on the history of Napoleon, which was both educational and possibly an attempt to help theme the game as there was little else to connect it. The game was almost entirely strategy-based, with just a hint of luck provided by rolling two six-sided dice to determine movement. The movement didn’t make that much difference if you had your strategy carefully planned, though.