Wars of Succession, My Wig is Bigger Than Yours, And So Is My Army: By JC

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018
By: JC
Wars of Succession, First Look - My Wig is Bigger Than Yours, And So Is My Army


Welcome to the crazy world of the early 1700's. Wars of Succession (an AGEOD game produced in association with El Gran Capitan and published by Matrix/Slitherine) has been out since a few days already. In this first look, let's see what this game brings into your virtual war room.





Wars of Succession is a WEGO turn-based game with an emphasis in warfare. Turns are one month long and the military forces move in partitions of the terrain that feature military-geography oriented characteristics. These characteristics affect movement, supply and combat. If you have played any of the AGEOD games before, you will find yourself at ease from the beginning. If you didn't, you will have to be patient and learn the basic and advanced features of the game system. Fear not, is not that difficult to start moving around armies, generating new combat units, and making a few political decisions too.

There are a total of 5 campaigns in the initial release of Wars of Succession (see screenshot below). I choose the 1706 campaign for the Spanish War of Succession to explore a few game features.




AGEOD was never short of talent in the art department. As seen in the screenshot above, the maps are very pleasant to look at and the interface is appealing and functional. The information bar below is showing a unit, its leaders and its subunits (regiments in this case).







Distant lands like present day Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are also represented. I haven't experienced too much naval warfare in any AGEOD game so far, so I can't comment.


Cheers,

JC



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