Having been away from wargaming for 3 weeks on
vacation in Spain I caught up this week with visits to two clubs.
On Monday I went to Falkirk and District Wargames
club at Grangemouth and watched a 15mm SYW game of Maurice. In this game a better trained Prussian force
was attacking an Austrian force holding a line of low hills.
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| Prussian left wing advances |
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| Prussians attack the hill |
On Thursday I went to the SESWC in Edinburgh and
played in a 28mm game of IN HER MAJESTY’S NAME.
Colin Jack provided the figures and scenario and the buildings were the
clubs. This was our first attempt with
these rules so we only used 2 companies of adventurers. Campbell Hardie and I commanded the Servants
of Ra whilst Colin and Mr Ray Neal commanded Princess Victoria’s Lifeguard
Hussars. As often in a Colin game this
is an entirely female unit.
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| Professor Abir and his minions of evil |
Though the Servants of Ra had mystical powers and
talents their low grade cultists proved incapable of withstanding the accurate
carbine fire of the Hussars. At the end
of the game though we had disposed of Princess Victoria we were left with a
tiny force around Akhenaton and Prof Abir and declared the game a victory for
the Hussarettes.
It was enjoyable and we will try it again with a
company per player. I am busy studying
the rules to see what we missed.
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| Princes Victoria's Life Guard Hussarettes |
Nice - who made the Princess Victoria's Hussars?
ReplyDeleteThe Hussars are by Hinterland - they make a great range of spiffing young ladies. Some of the sailorettes appeared as the crew of the Zeppelin in my 1914 River Aisnes game.
DeleteBill how do you and Colin like the INHM rules, Going to try them out with my friends Henry and Steven when I get back to home from my USFS work in Montana. 57.75 hours last week Fire season has finally arrived in earnest out here in the West. Cheers VFW
DeleteGreat looking pics!
ReplyDeleteNice looking games Bill. For the multi player Maurice game did each player control his own complete army and did they add an additional action card deck? This must happen or it doesn't work properly.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Chris - no. It was a test game for 2 of the players so they kept it simple. I think we will try with 2 decks and notables at a later date. This month I hope to try a 2 player Maurice 28mm AWI game based on the OB from one of my Black Powder games.
DeleteInvariably if two players are playing one army then one player will be twiddling his thumbs while the other does an action. The rules are designed for each player whether playing singly or in a multi player game to control his own army with his own playing cards. I cannot stress enough following the guidelines for multi player games given in the book and highly recommend advising your friends to do so otherwise it simply falls apart and drags instead giving the high drama it's supposed to do.
DeleteMy first game of Maurice was not an enjoyable experience because we did like your friends and tried playing a multi player game with one deck and one army each side, but when I played my second and further games controlling my own army both singly and in multi-player games was a completely different experience and was extremely fun! Really night and day kind of thing.:-)
Christopher