The top down map scale is 100 meters per hex at 10 minutes per turn. Both the map and the unit art are editable and a full scenario creator allows each customer to modify maps, units, leaders, game data and AI instructions. Combat is resolved in detail including losses to the man and gun, unit morale, leader effects, positions, formations, command and control and construction and demolition. Weather is fully modeled, with effects on combat, movement and fog of war. Eighteen different terrain types are represented in all four seasons, plus fourteen hexside types and five types of roads.

Black Powder Wars: Battles Of Napoleon includes over 3000 individual unit pictures and will ship with over a dozen scenarios focused on Napoleon's 1807 Campaign in Poland, with additional professionally designed scenarios available after release. The full editing tool kit will allow owners to re-create any battle of the period, with new orders of battle, maps and graphics.