tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post8211237958908797647..comments2024-03-27T06:13:42.855-07:00Comments on The Mad Padre's Wargames Page: The Sack and Cleansing of St. Mikhail's: A Maurice After Action ReportMad Padrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-80452248915637950232013-08-27T16:47:45.983-07:002013-08-27T16:47:45.983-07:00Good to see you in the swing of things mike. I tru...Good to see you in the swing of things mike. I trust it would have gone better if it were not for Stanley's desertion.Conrad Kinchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683395740934527502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-81990197682879490682013-08-27T15:05:29.392-07:002013-08-27T15:05:29.392-07:00Wait till next time! I'm in need of a few go...Wait till next time! I'm in need of a few good eunuchs!Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-79278705527175650952013-08-27T14:21:45.197-07:002013-08-27T14:21:45.197-07:00Alas, I don't know where these horrible images...Alas, I don't know where these horrible images come from. I am, I fear, a bad, bad man. I agree, the Turks are an entertaining army if not always a winning oneMad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-66553299180049406802013-08-27T14:19:42.369-07:002013-08-27T14:19:42.369-07:00Thanks Loki!Thanks Loki!Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-51386876473369779322013-08-27T07:35:28.445-07:002013-08-27T07:35:28.445-07:00Mike
Great looking game - lots of good colour sui...Mike<br /><br />Great looking game - lots of good colour suitable for the period. I trust that you broke open the sacrificial wine to christen the chapel!<br /><br />Cheers<br />PDPeter Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14118894381672707297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-46144841662401121222013-08-27T07:27:31.635-07:002013-08-27T07:27:31.635-07:00This was great. The miniatures and terrain were e...This was great. The miniatures and terrain were excellent. Love to see Ottomans on the table.Chris Stoesenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285495844651490795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-76086499049010317822013-08-27T07:02:13.985-07:002013-08-27T07:02:13.985-07:00Brilliant AAR Mike. Maurice is a very fine set of ...Brilliant AAR Mike. Maurice is a very fine set of rules and I hope to keep playing it in the near future (now busy with Chain of Command...)Anibal Invictushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574972963418062956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-45025793493282388962013-08-27T04:59:44.431-07:002013-08-27T04:59:44.431-07:00Here's what I discovered with crap cavalry, an...Here's what I discovered with crap cavalry, and it might be interesting to see how it goes with these Maurice rules. Possibly I can illustrate it best by a bit of a story.<br /><br />I was playing DBR, using ottoman Turks late 17th Century against 30YW style Imperialists. Wall-to-wall pike and shot were near on impervious to my Sipahis (Fast) and (Inferior), which boys tended to head for the horizon at any sort of setback. But being so skittish, they weren't all that easy to kill, neither, so they were soon back again.<br /><br />Meanwhile my few Janissaries were holding their own against Imperialist foot, the flanks of their line gradually giving back. So I was raining blows upon the enemy line, creating minor dents here and there, and genrally not achieving very much.<br /><br />But it came to pass that one noticed that the series of minor dents was starting to morph into major ones - even the odd hole. The Imperialist phalanx was becoming disordered, and, far from presenting their erstwhile solid front were beginning to take on a porous sort of appearance. <br /><br />Holes in the enemy line? Just the place for nippy cavalry, and into the gaps went the sipahis like so many robbers' dogs. Once the Turkish horse got in amongst the Imperialist lines, a disintegration set in, and the Ottomans won an unlikely victory.<br /><br />I say unlikely, as under the DBR rule set I really did have a whole lotta luck in pulling this one off (especially after Count Albrecht Eusebius von Wallenstein bit the dust - a particularly un-Wallenstein piece of impetuosity led to this - and then the Imperialists rolled snake eyes for their command dice). Yet it seemed to me exactly how the Ottoman army at its best would operate: probing, needling, pin-pricking, goading the Imperialists into disorder and then capitalizing upon that disorder. <br /><br />Crap cav will beat crap inf every time. The trick is to transform good inf into dross.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-16845240773837427942013-08-27T01:51:51.116-07:002013-08-27T01:51:51.116-07:00A fine AAR, Mike. The image of Turks propelling b...A fine AAR, Mike. The image of Turks propelling burning nuns from the Church is an unspeakably vivid one. I love the late 17th and 18th century Turkish armies, but if its any consolation, my experiences with them (a long while back) is equally mercurial!Sidney Roundwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14795563060856586670noreply@blogger.com