Manoeuvre: Distant Lands

This blog will be my effort to keep all those interested in the progress of the expansion for Manoeuvre, Manoeuvre: Distant Lands. Here I will provide designer's notes and the lates information that I have on the progress of the game.

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Posted by Jeff Horger

13 Aug 2011

Jeff Horger

(Jeff Horger)

United States
Columbus
Ohio

Earlier this week I got the word. Get the details of the game to the folks at GMT. Manoeuvre: Distant Lands was heading for the P500. For someone in my shoes, it was like Christmas in August. That's just how it works, you come home from work and there is a message in your in-box telling you there's work to be done. My first thought is of course, now it is time to really start working. Its all fun and games when the design is in your hands being honed and refined. But now, you have to harness your energy and work in conjunction with developers, artist, writers and editors. I LOVE IT! Five minutes of elation followed by hours of wracking your brain to be sure you have crossed every t and dotted every i. Time to get to work.

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Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:03 am

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Andrew Gross

(andrewgr)

United States
Seattle
Washington

There is no BoardGameGeek entry that I can find for any game called "Maneouvre: Distant Lands". There is also no GMT P500 entry that I can find for this game. And your first blog entry doesn't tell me anything about the game at all, other than the title. A sentence or two explaining what the heck it is would be appreciated. (When I first played Maneouvre, I wrote to GMT and asked them to consider a Fantasy based re-theme, but I'm seriously doubting that's what it is.)

Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:17 am
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Mark Buetow

(Malacandra)

United States
Du Quoin
Illinois

Best game company ever?

GMT Games, of course!

Congrats, Jeff! Manoeuvre is a great game. So is this the expansion of powers or is this the fantasy version?

Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:17 am
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Jeff Horger

(Jeff Horger)

United States
Columbus
Ohio

The first post is exactly as billed, just the first word.

When it hits the P500 I intend to say more about it, much more. However, Distant Lands is a four-nation expansion for the base Manoeuvre game. It will include China, Japan, India & Sweden as well as additional boards using the under-utilized marsh, field and lake terrain types. I wanted to get the blog started and I intend to fill the details in over time. I also don't want to put the entry into the database until it is officially on the P500 list.

Fury, the fantasy version, is indeed done and coming soon.

Edited Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:57 am
Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:57 am
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JAMES CASTELLI

(jamesmckane)

Australia
Hornsby
N.S.W

Maneouvre is a sweet game, I've been playing it quite a bit lately, 2 of my friends each have a copy. Even though I'm most likley to play against them, I'd still like to pick up a copy. I look forward to learning more about Fury, and Distant lands.

Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:14 am
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Scott Alden

(Aldie)

United States
Dallas
Texas

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Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:10 am
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"L'état, c'est moi."

(leroy43)

Canada
Vancouver
BC

Roger's Reviews: check out my reviews page, right here on BGG!

Who let this guy become wargame subdomain moderator anyways?

You said it Jimmy. I really like Manoeuvre. My favorite armies are not the French and British surprisingly. I think the Spanish and Ottomans make a great combo, as well as the Russians and Prussians.

Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:12 am
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JAMES CASTELLI

(jamesmckane)

Australia
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Quote:

My favorite armies are not the French and British surprisingly. I think the Spanish and Ottomans make a great combo, as well as the Russians and Prussians.

I've only played the French before, 4 times now though and I really enjoyed the games I've played. Good to know the others are fun to play too. My last game was against the Ottomans, very close all the way down to the last card. I would like to try the Ottomans myself next game.....Dang, talking about it again has put it higher on my wishlist. Ahhhhh, I'll just stick it in the cart now shake

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Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:31 am
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Joe the Sith Lord

(Nordiska)

United States

North Carolina

Can't wait for this, soon as it goes p500 I'm preordering.

Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:30 pm
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Joseph Anderson

(jmanders85)

United States
Minneapolis
Minnesota

Oh Boy. My friend Annie and I are doing a 56 game tournament (every nation versus every nation...) but this new expansion will swell that to 132 games zombie

. If my math is right. If my math is not right, my combinatorics professor will retroactively fail me as she should.

Posted Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:34 pm
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Tom Shydler

(Skiprydell)

United States
Las Vegas
Nevada

Sounds great....I will definitely be onboard with this although....I really, really had hoped the game would be pushed forward into the Nineteenth Century for Civil War, the Indian Wars, and Franco-Prussian....

Posted Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:25 am
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Jeff Horger

(Jeff Horger)

United States
Columbus
Ohio

I'll be honest with you Tom, those periods hold little interest for me. Perhaps someone with more love for that period could do it justice.

Posted Mon Aug 15, 2011 2:10 am
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(Ozludo)

Australia
Victoria

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Brilliant news. Congratulations! Add me to the wave of people who can't wait to preorder.

Posted Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:03 pm
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Josef Tham

(joseftham)

Sweden
Malmö

I have had a look at the playtest counters and there are a few issues I have with the spelling on the Swedish counters...

"Liv Garde" (meaning Life Guards) should be a single word in Swedish and preferably in definite article - Livgardet

"Mounted Liv Garde" sounds odd, mixing English and Swedish. Consider using either language without mixing. In English you could choose between Mounted Life Guards, Life Reg. Hussars, Household Dragoons or Life Reg. Dragoons, while in Swedish the least cumbersome names for Swedish mounted Guard units capable of being fitted onto a counter I can find would probably be Livreg. Husarer, Livreg. Dragoner, Livgardet till häst (the most historically correct translation of Mounted Life Guards for the 1806-1928 period), or Livdragonreg.

Swedish regiments are named for the counties in which they were raised and sometimes use genitive in their names, sometimes not:

"Jamtlands Reg." (Jämtlands regemente) is correct.

"Varmland Reg." (Värmlands regemente) should use genitive and thus be Varmlands Reg.

"Vastebottens Reg." (Västerbottens regemente) has lost an R and should be Vasterbottens Reg.

"Kalmar Reg." (Kalmar regemente) is correct.

"Jamtlands Dragoner" (Jämtlands dragoner) is correct.

"Halsinge Reg." (Hälsinge regemente) is correct.

Cheers!

Edited Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:30 pm
Posted Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:29 pm
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Jeff Horger

(Jeff Horger)

United States
Columbus
Ohio

I have messaged Josef to see if I can enlist his help throughout the process to get the Swedish army properly squared away. Cross my fingers and hope he agrees to help.

Posted Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:22 pm
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Kristian Madsen

(kgm3219)

Sweden
Uppsala

Historically accurate names (including the proper åäöÅÄÖ character set) is a must if you'd like to pick up us Swedish history buffs.

Look at the reaction of Swedish gamers to the shoddy production of World at War: Operation Garbo if you'd like an example of doing it wrong.

/kgm

Posted Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:33 pm
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Jeff Horger

(Jeff Horger)

United States
Columbus
Ohio

I have every intention of doing it correctly. I only have 8 units after all. But help from Sweden, Japan, India would all be appreciated so that it gets done right. For my play test I just didn't have the proper characters to use for the specialized alphabet.

Posted Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:48 pm
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blur blue

(didrik72)

Great!

But I think its a real error with the Swedish army to not in-cloud any of its Finnish regiments,

Ex

Nylands regiment
Savolax Jägers
Savolax brigade

In the war against Russia 1808-09 the best Swedish units was Savolax brigade with its Jäger regiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Revolax
http://www.multi.fi/~goranfri/biosandels.html
http://www.swordandsabre.com/prod01.htm

Rgds Patrik

Posted Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:14 pm
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