Thursday 25 June 2009

Honour: the new Sam Mustafa's system

Sam Mustafa, the author of the wargaming rule-sets Grande Armée and Might and Reason, is now working in a new Napoleonic system named Honour. According to his own words:

"Honour is a new series of miniatures games for the horse-and-musket era. It will appear in Modules, starting at the end of 2009. Each module of the Honour system is a complete set of wargame rules that examines one of the wars of this period at a particular scale, and with a particular style. In the coming years modules will eventually address all of the wars of the era @1700-1900, at multiple scales and levels of play.
Every module in the Honour system uses the same flexible basing system that can scale to any player’s collection. All use the same basic set of terminology, measurements, and sequence of play. Each module “plugs-in” the distinctive features and flavor of the period it addresses, at the scale it addresses, to the core Honour system.
Every game in the Honour series is a beautiful, full-color hardback book with inspiring photographs and lavishly

Coming in Winter 2009: Lasalle
Lasalle is the first module for Honour. Players take the role of a brigade or division commander in the Napoleonic Wars.
The game is small-scale and tactical in nature, focusing on the movement of individual battalions and regiments of cavalry. The player will manage a small force of roughly a dozen units as he tries to complete some specific mission assigned to him, such as “Hold the village and our bridgehead at all costs!” or: “Drive the French from Plancenoit!”

Coming in Spring 2011: Blücher
Blücher puts the player in the role of an army commander in the Napoleonic Wars. It represents the most complete rethinking of grandtactical gaming in decades.
In Blücher players move entire divisions and corps at a time, but with bases representing the individual battalions, batteries, and regiments that comprise the “footprint” of those larger entities. Movement, shooting and combat resolve very quickly, often with dozens of bases engaged simultaneously, in a single, straightforward process. "


Take a look at the proposed basing system:

I am a fan of Napoleon's Battles ruleset, now in his 3rd edition (see Napoleon's Battles 3rd Edition post), but I am also a compulsive rule-set buyer, and Sam always offers new and imaginative game mechanisms, so I am waiting for the launching of his new products!

More information at the Sam Mustafa's
Honour web site

2 comments:

  1. Sounds interesting. Nearly all of my interest is within the "Horse and Musket" era so I will most likely be investing in this set.

    Matt

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  2. Hi
    It seems that it will be good (as all Sam's systems)
    And Lasalle module has been released
    Rafa

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