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.
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| The French close on the allies. There is a series of hills on the right. |
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| Advance! |
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| The expected Sylvain flanking manoeuvre |
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| Stacy advances the French lights on his left. I needed to amortize my windmill investment |
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| Sylvain makes plans for an Anglo Allied counterattack |
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| French command and traffic control |
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Early on, Stacy advances the French light troops.
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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.
