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You've got to laugh. The shots on the back of the box tell all about a product like this. "Create new battlefield with over 150 terrain pieces," says the caption under a picture of some grass and bushes. "French infantry advance on Reves" says the one under the picture with some green squares with crosses on.

But if you're sniggering, you shouldn't, because impressions certainly know how to put together a top-notch historical wargame, even if they can't draw graphics to save their lives.

Great Napoleonic Battles offers the player the chance to become Napoleon himself, or the commander of one of the unfortunate territories to fall under his control.

Impressions games are war/strategy games in their truest sense operating on a hex grid, with all the hit-point ratings and defence abilities displayed in their ugly numeric forms, but they are sure to keep happy the gamer who simply wants a machine to do the adding up and look after all the imagination, sound and action in his own head.