3-player games / Post-Napoleonic

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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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.