Played two games with my new Minifigs 25mm SYW collection last week.
The first game was at the club on Monday night with one complete newbie and 3 of us who hadn't played Honours of War that much. There was a fair amount of rules flcking but we didn't get anything wrong..
I took the Prussians alongside Ian and Norman and Justin took the Austrians.
The game went badly from the start with an independent Austrian Hussar unit making a double move to hit my Prussians in column who failed to change formation. I rolled badly in the melee and the unit routed... How embarrassing...
I recovered but an hour or so later I managed to roll three 1s in a row
in a series of cavalry melees, lost almost all my cavalry and we decided
to call it a day and concede to the Austrians.
The second game was smaller, in my games room and against my regular opponent Anthony.
This time I took the Austrians and Anthony took the Prussians.
It was a close fought game and we both came to needing to break one unit to break the opposing army. I managed some lucky shots with 2 artillery batteries on one of his cavalry units and victory went to the Austrians again...
The Guildford club have made some small modifications to Honours of War to use D6 throughout and reduce the effectiveness of artillery and some shooting.
I think they work very well as a set of SYW rules.
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