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Wargames: Shako: Swedish Napolenic Organisation
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 06:29 AM
Shako
| This article discusses my Napoleonic Wargaming use of the Shako rules and one of the armies I am collecting in them. The first armies I plan to construct will be Scandinavian ones (can't help it after living up there in Norway for a three years). It should be a Swedish army. After that, the Danish army would be a nice addition, given that it fought both against the Swedes and with them, depending on the time in the wars.
Shako are a set of wargames rules designed for handling Napoleonic era battles (and Seven Years War) without having a ton of tables and whilst maintaining a fast flow to the game. They provide a moderate level of detail along with simplified mechanisms for handling fire combat, melee combat and the results of combat. The rules were written by Arty Conliffe in 1995
The rules are designed to allow players to fight Napoleonic battles at two tactical levels. At the lowest level, the game is based around battalions and regiments. This allow a corps level game to be played. This allows games with the real life equivalent of around 40,000 combatants involved. The higher level the basic tactical unit in the game is the division. This allows the re-fight of the really big battles of the time. Both levels share the same mechanics of play but the feeling of each game is different.
Most games can be completed in around 3 hours or so, certainly at the lowest level of a corps a side. Shako functions by simulating the different battle systems employed by the various combatants of the wars. The rules themselves reward good pre-game planning and the setting of a good plan, although it is possible to change the plan through the battle, a good opponent will exploit that failure.
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