System 7 Napoleonics
System 7 Napoleonics is a miniatures line and rules system for tabletop miniatures wargaming published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1978. Contents System 7 Napoleonics is used for miniatures wargaming, and features double-sided die-cut cardboard counters that are used instead of metal miniature figures. Reception In the June 1979 edition of Dragon (Issue #26), Tim Kask pointed out the value of these counters for newcomers to miniatures wargaming, calling System 7 Napoleonics "the most significant release in recent wargaming history [...] potentially hobby shaking and revolutionary." Kask concluded "System 7 is colorful, inepxpensive, accurate and possess the 'feel' of the period; what more can I say, except that you ought to run right out and buy it." In the same issue of Dragon, Bill Fawcett admitted that $8 worth of cardboard counters "lack the aesthetic beauty of multitudes of minutely painted 25 mm or 15 mm figures" but pointed out that an equivalent number of unpainted metal miniatures "would probably cost nearly $1000." The counters weren't without issues — Fawcett pointed out that keeping hundreds of counters organized would require some work, and the small counters were "hard to handle." Fawcett also felt that some historical units were not as