18th Century Officers

More notes on my ongoing Might and Reason games.

 

Officers earn Epic Points for performance in battle as per Maurice.

Social Standing 1-6

Military skills 0-4  The Command Phase

Poor. 1

Average 2

Good 3

Great 4

National Advantages

En Masse

Feudal levies

Great Captain

Skirmishers

Crashing volleys

Steady Lads (rerolls)

Professional train

Rally to the colours

Oblique order (March across corners)

Maison du Roi

Giant Grenadiers 

à la Baïonnette!

Artillery Academy

Cadence

Cavaliers

Clerics

Depot Battalions

Engineer

Exploring Officers

Use of Maurice Notables as Generals

Britain    The Duke of Cummerbund
France    Marshal Du Sexe
Austria   Crown Prince Ferdinand
Prussia   King Frederich
Bavaria   The old Elector
Spain      Prince Don Juan
Turkey    The Sultana
Russia    General Gorki
Sweden  King Charles the sweet
Duke Benedick of Cummerbund 
Maj Gen "Scruffy" Herbert
The Margrave Flatulenz 
Duke Jean de Mons-Pubis
Count Saveloy
Baron Pumphosen
Maj Wurst Farhtgasse

The character of a man table

Use 2d6. WHITE and BLACK. 

1.1    Gambling debts
1.2    Got a lady into trouble
1.3    An argument with a fellow officer
1.4    Repeatedly found drunk with the company mule
1.5    Enamoured of Mme Le Bonc at court. 
1.6    Intolerant Religious indignation at fellow officers
2.1    A fervent and fanatical Royalist
2.2    Owes monies to serious people at Court
2.3    Angry and ill tempered
2.4    A bone idle fellow, always asleep
2.5    Regularly smokes a pipe of exotic herb
2.6    Suffers from gastric windage.
3.1    A game leg, origins unclear
3.2    Harbours a secret love for his apricot pie
3.3    A terrified poltroon
3.4    A rash, impetuous heroic idiot
3.5    A quiet thinker, liable to snap at any minute.
3.6    Talks to himself as another persona
4.1    Has a thick country (or over cultured) accent
4.2    A Mummy's boy, won't do any work
4.3    An innocent. Believes everything he hears.
4.4    A psychotic, who fixes murderously on one thing.
4.5    A hobbyist, obsessed with catching butterflies etc…
4.6    A thief who steals indiscriminately
5.1    A bully, who shouts and busters
5.2    A dangerous bastard who is skilled in violence,
5.3    A weasel of a man,
5.4    A Braggart and bully.
5.5    A dandy with a dress sense
5.6    A dandy man for the ladies.
6.1    Poor cross - eyed fellow with a fine moustache.
6.2    A portly fellow, with a heroic appetite.
6.3    A bible reader, always ready with a quote
6.4    A Jewish tailor’s boy, with fine manners
6.5    An exiled Russian Nobleman, “skilled in the Wars.“
6.6    A real joker, it's the way he tells ‘em.

 The Ottomans

                              Mil-Skills.   Influence

Abdullah Abulbar. Good +3.     4

Yegthen Pasha.        Ave +2        3

Topol Pasha.            Poor +1       4

Quilliup Effendi.    Ave +2          1

Ibrahim Khan.        Poor +1        2

Memet Pasha.         Ave +2.         3

Von Schraner Pasha  Good +3   1

Blue Officers

Ernst Blofeld

Amadeus

Warstiener 

Ludwig von Glottalstop