AAR Seven Years War With Maurice

Last month at Curt’s request I ran a test game of Maurice using my SYW collection.  We had the French attacking the Anglo Allied army defending a hill, based on Scenario1 from Grants Programmed a wargame Scenarios.  It was a long affair ending after midnight in a narrow French victory.  Photos are in no particular order.

The French close on the allies.  There is a series of hills on the right.

Advance!

The expected Sylvain flanking manoeuvre 

Stacy advances the French lights on his left.  I needed to amortize my windmill investment 

Sylvain makes plans for an Anglo Allied counterattack 

French command and traffic control 

Early on, Stacy advances the French light troops.

Maurice has a number of innovative ideas, many of which I quite liked.  Overall, they won’t be the go to SYW rules.  They weren’t Toy Soldierish enough and some commands spent a lot of  sitting while other commands were activated.  I think with more games we’d get the hang of getting all the cylinders to fire in sequence but it might be too much work for a Friday night.  Still, worth a look for diseases and flavour.