"Napoleonic Campaign Rules?" Topic

Can anyone suggest a formal set Napoleonic Campaign Rules. I have found many bits and pieces online of very basic rules that seem very inadequate. I especially need rules that cover Supply in detail. Thanks

Empire Campaign System is certainly comprehensive. It is, however, an epic amount of paperwork.

You'll have to do some work to convert it over, but Perfect Captain's Spanish Fury has a campaign system in it that covers things like supply:
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You could use a boardgame for that. Empires in Arms (an epic game in its own right) works well for that, if you're looking for a massive campaign. Otherwise you could select an operational level game that's campaign/theater specific.

Kevin Zucker old games. You can find thel on cyberboard and the rules updated on Osg site or elsewhere.

Then you can fiddle it to adapt, possibly best simultaneous moves, in the 1807 one you have some system to deplete areas which can be handy elsewhere too.
It is better, unless it is the main thing, to avoid loads of bookeeping and menial details.
Blücher rules have a simple but effective system too.

2nd plug for Empires in Arms… the forage values for the various areas, influenced by terrain type and time of year, is excellent. Use those values and a percentage conversion based on your figure scale to determine attrition due to lack of forage.

Thank you all very much!

I know that people have used the old Avalon Hill game War and Peace to run campaign games.
The advice given in the The Wargamers Compendium book written by Henry Hyde might be useful as well.

3rd vote for Empires in Arms

It may be too stylised for your taste, but I would recommend Paddy Griffith's Generalship Game in his book Napoleonic Wargaming For Fun (Ward Lock, 1992 IIRC but republished in John Curry's History of Wargaming Project).
Simply fight the battles generated using whatever rules you prefer, instead of the battle resolution system in the game.

I would very much recommend Pratzen Editions' l'Aigle series. Currently on Vol III is available. It covers all of the Peninsula Campaigns, 1809 and 1814. 1815 is available for free online.

I am running an 1814 campaign online, and once you get the mechanics organized, it works well. You could readily substitute a miniatures combat resolution with your own rules, or you could use their Expert combat rules as a basis, plus you can use their non-miniature rules for those engagements that you cannot or do not run as miniatures.

Hmm, Vol III a tad pricey.