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Best 3-player post-napoleonic board games

The best 3-player post-napoleonic board games are Brass Lancashire, Castles of Mad King Ludwig and Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Thames Murders & Other Cases — the top-rated of 44 3-player post-napoleonic board games in the MeeplePick database, led by Brass Lancashire (2007) at 8.2/10 on BoardGameGeek.

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Top post-napoleonic board games for 3 players

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Time
Complexity
  • Brass Lancashire (2007)

    2–4 players · 60–120 min · ★ 8.2

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  • Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2014)

    1–4 players · 90 min · ★ 7.5

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  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Thames Murders & Other Cases (1982)

    1–8 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.7

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  • Pax Pamir Second Edition (2019)

    1–5 players · 45–120 min · ★ 8.4

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  • Pandemic Iberia (2016)

    2–5 players · 45 min · ★ 7.9

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  • Letters from Whitechapel (2011)

    2–6 players · 90 min · ★ 7.4

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  • Trickerion Legends of Illusion (2015)

    2–4 players · 60–180 min · ★ 7.9

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  • Thurn and Taxis (2006)

    2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.1

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  • Diplomacy (1959)

    2–7 players · 360 min · ★ 7.0

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  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures (2016)

    1–8 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.7

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  • Wabash Cannonball (2007)

    2–6 players · 60 min · ★ 7.2

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  • Obsession (2018)

    1–4 players · 30–90 min · ★ 8.3

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  • Pax Porfiriana (2012)

    1–6 players · 120 min · ★ 7.7

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  • Hallertau (2020)

    1–4 players · 50–140 min · ★ 8.2

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  • The Bloody Inn (2015)

    1–4 players · 30–60 min · ★ 7.0

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  • Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2018)

    2–7 players · 45–60 min · ★ 7.3

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  • Whitehall Mystery (2017)

    2–4 players · 45–60 min · ★ 7.6

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  • World's Fair 1893 (2016)

    2–4 players · 35–45 min · ★ 7.2

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  • Medina (2001)

    3–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.0

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  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Carlton House & Queen's Park (2017)

    1–8 players · 90 min · ★ 8.0

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  • Paris (2020)

    2–4 players · 90 min · ★ 7.4

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  • Nanty Narking (2019)

    2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.6

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  • Beyond Baker Street (2016)

    2–4 players · 20 min · ★ 6.9

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  • The Guns of Gettysburg (2013)

    2–4 players · 180 min · ★ 7.8

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  • Duel of Ages Set 1 Worldspanner (2003)

    2–16 players · 120 min · ★ 6.6

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  • The Palace of Mad King Ludwig (2017)

    2–4 players · 75 min · ★ 6.9

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  • Old Masters (2019)

    2–4 players · 40–60 min · ★ 7.1

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  • On the Origin of Species (2019)

    2–4 players · 45–80 min · ★ 7.1

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  • Bison Thunder on the Prairie (2006)

    2–4 players · 90 min · ★ 6.3

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  • 1841 Railways in Northern Italy (1994)

    2–8 players · 300 min · ★ 8.0

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  • Terrible Swift Sword The Three Days of Gettysburg (1976)

    2–6 players · 420–4200 min · ★ 7.5

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  • Furnace (2021)

    2–4 players · 30–60 min · ★ 7.5

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  • Viktory II (2006)

    2–8 players · 60 min · ★ 6.9

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  • Source of the Nile (1978)

    1–6 players · 180 min · ★ 6.5

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  • The Ironclads A Tactical Level Game of Naval Combat in the American Civil War 1861-1865 (1979)

    1–8 players · 120 min · ★ 7.3

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  • Colonialism (2013)

    2–4 players · 90 min · ★ 6.8

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  • Dystopian Wars (2010)

    2–4 players · 120–240 min · ★ 7.2

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  • Colonial Diplomacy (1994)

    2–7 players · 360 min · ★ 6.6

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  • War! Age of Imperialism (2001)

    2–6 players · 180 min · ★ 5.6

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  • Atelier The Painter's Studio (2019)

    2–4 players · 30–45 min · ★ 6.6

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  • Divided Republic (2012)

    2–4 players · 180 min · ★ 6.7

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  • Gear & Piston (2013)

    2–6 players · 30–60 min · ★ 5.7

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  • The Foreign King (2015)

    2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 6.4

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  • Battle-Cry (1961)

    2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 5.6

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Frequently asked

What is the best 3-player post-napoleonic board game?
Brass Lancashire (2007) is the highest-rated 3-player post-napoleonic board game on BoardGameGeek, at 8.2/10 from 19,983 ratings. Castles of Mad King Ludwig and Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Thames Murders & Other Cases round out the top three.
How many 3-player post-napoleonic board games are there?
MeeplePick lists 44 3-player post-napoleonic board games, ranked here by BoardGameGeek community rating.