Description
Engage the Nazi occupation of France in la petite guerre to throw off the yoke of the oppressors and free your homeland!
Maquis is a solitaire worker-placement game with variable goals and a play time of approximately twenty minutes.
The player places his resistance agents on spaces around town to achieve his goals – blowing up trains, publishing underground newspapers – but at the same time Milice collaborators and Wehrmacht soldiers patrol the area.
Agents who can’t make it back to the safe house at the end of the day are arrested, and never seen again.
Impressions
The goal of Maquis is to complete two tasks before either fifteen days elapses, or the townspeople’s will is broken and they give in to their oppressors.
If the town morale drops to 0 or the 15 days run out with neither goal completed, you lose.
Otherwise, if you complete both your goals before the time runs out, you win, and only one goal gives you a draw.
A quick-playing, VERY well produced solitaire game.
Good variability, including different missions and difficulty levels.
Taking a look at Maquis
Player feedback
The forums at BoardGameGeek often have good discussions about gameplay.
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Popular discussion topics
Discussions about modifying the game with new rules or ideas to make the game easier or harder.
- Some more mission ideas (including prequel mission)
- Maquis Resistance campaign
- A bunch of mission ideas
- Maquis campaign idea
Files
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Maquis Rules v1.1
The rules to play Maquis, in PDF form.
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Maquis PnP Files – v1.1 – 300 dpi JPEGs
All the files necessary to make a copy of Maquis.
Sized for A4 output, with margins – to print on A4, print without scaling; to print on Letter paper, print at 95% scale.
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Maquis PnP Files – v1.1 – Low-Ink 300 dpi JPEGs
All the files necessary to make a copy of Maquis, in low-ink, printer-friendly form.
Sized for A4 output, with margins – to print on A4, print without scaling; to print on Letter paper, print at 95% scale.
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Maquis redesign – cards, tiles and counters
Cards, tiles and counters in PDF format (vector images)
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3 Extra missions
1 “German Shepherd” 2 “Home-made Bomb” 3 “Coded Messages”
v2: add background behind texts.
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Two new missions (plus reformatted old missions)
I’ve created two new missions (called Take Out the Bridges and Infiltration) using the style of Ilya’s redesign. There are two files attached:
• One which contains only the new missions with cards sized to be exactly the same as Ilya’s design. (Keep in mind that these are sized for A4 paper. If you printed the original files on letter paper and resized them to fit, you’ll want to do the same percentage on these.)
• One which contains the original missions and the two new missions, formatted for printing on letter sized paper and sized for use with 59 x 92mm card sleeves (I use FFG Standard Euro “purple” sleeves). I’ve edited the original missions slightly to include stars and pathways where applicable.
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