I haven't played a board wargame in some years, but there was a period in the 70s and 80s when I played virtually everything of importance in the field, and it's still a genre for which I have a high degree of empathy. While there are any number of games I remember fondly, and even a few I view as superb and worthy of study today (including Dunnigan's WWI and Chadwick's A House Divided), Zucker's Napoleon's Last Battles is a game I still think of almost sublime in its focus, concision, and all-around polish. It's also simple enough that I can suggest that, even if you never play another board wargame, you should play this one, to get a sense of what this particular genre is all about.
