100 YW Campaign - Battle Phase

MARVIN_THE_ARVN · Post by **MARVIN_THE_ARVN** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:04 pm

Great work Scar!!! I best get reading up on Castille!!!

hidde · Post by **hidde** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:16 pm

Good.
Monday is my choice. Working Friday and Saturday and games to play (if one can call it play when you're up against Pantherboy. It's more like a gauntlet!)
Need the time to study the Danes and perhaps a game or two.

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:21 pm

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:Great work Scar!!! I best get reading up on Castille!!!

I just checked the army you got, looks fun to play, I really like the military order units!

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:22 pm

hidde wrote:Good.
Monday is my choice. Working Friday and Saturday and games to play (if one can call it play when you're up against Pantherboy. It's more like a gauntlet!)
Need the time to study the Danes and perhaps a game or two.

I don't see us doing much before Monday, just getting everyone going and making sure we don't have any army list worries or kingdom changes.

Amaz_Ed · Post by **Amaz_Ed** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:23 pm

I too am busy until Monday, Advanced Narratology assignment to be completed by Sunday evening......

76mm · Post by **76mm** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:39 am

Sorry I have a dumb question--what army am I supposed to use?

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:35 am

76mm wrote:Sorry I have a dumb question--what army am I supposed to use?

I believe you use low countries. The army list is right below the map on page 5 showing the kingdoms.

76mm · Post by **76mm** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:05 am

Scar wrote: I believe you use low countries. The army list is right below the map on page 5 showing the kingdoms.

Thanks, I totally missed that.

I wouldn't mind having a few days to play around with these armies before starting the campaign, I am completely unfamiliar with medieval warfare. But if people are in a hurry to start I can do whatever...

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:50 am

76mm wrote:
Scar wrote: I believe you use low countries. The army list is right below the map on page 5 showing the kingdoms.
Thanks, I totally missed that.

I wouldn't mind having a few days to play around with these armies before starting the campaign, I am completely unfamiliar with medieval warfare. But if people are in a hurry to start I can do whatever...

No worries there, looks like we won't try and begin until Monday. And even then, I doubt any battles will be fought until at the earliest end of the week.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:09 am

Do we have set alliances (esp. w France or England) at start? Or are we completely free to wheel and deal???

76mm · Post by **76mm** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:18 am

Us neutral guys can do whatever we want diplomatically, right?

Also, what is the policy on renting out one's troops as mercenaries, or simply lending them to another army? (ie, the other player would command, but would get to use part of your troops?)

Aryaman · Post by **Aryaman** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:38 pm

In the strategic map, movement has to be made through roads, right? I mean, I can´t move from Bordeaux to Gasconny without going through Navarre, right?

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:30 pm

Blathergut wrote:Do we have set alliances (esp. w France or England) at start? Or are we completely free to wheel and deal???

The campaign starts with certain kingdoms aligned to either France or England (all the Kingdoms on either the right or left side of the map). The neutral Kingdoms are at the bottom. You can always rebel and leave either France or England, or you can join them if your neutral. But remember that rebellion costs money.

zumHeuriger · Post by **zumHeuriger** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:32 pm

What are the rules for choosing allies for your list, and troop types? Can I choose a Swiss ally-general and friends, or should we be usign core list only? What about the core list Swiss?

I just read my German list - what a collection of interesting troops (very diverse though).

Tom

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:33 pm

76mm wrote:Us neutral guys can do whatever we want diplomatically, right?

Also, what is the policy on renting out one's troops as mercenaries, or simply lending them to another army? (ie, the other player would command, but would get to use part of your troops?)

Currently the rules allow you to "loan" troops to another kingdom if there is a battle and both the loanee and loaner armies are in the same province. Also, you can give other Kingdoms money, which they can use to buy troops, but the transers of money can only take place in the income phase.

As for the neutrals, they can pretty much do what they want. Stay neutral, join a faction etc.

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:35 pm

Aryaman wrote:In the strategic map, movement has to be made through roads, right? I mean, I can´t move from Bordeaux to Gasconny without going through Navarre, right?

Correct, you must follow the road paths when moving.

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:38 pm

zumHeuriger wrote:What are the rules for choosing allies for your list, and troop types? Can I choose a Swiss ally-general and friends, or should we be usign core list only? What about the core list Swiss?

I just read my German list - what a collection of interesting troops (very diverse though).

Tom

Hi Tom:
I listed the armies that are allowed to use allies in the list of kingdoms and armies, like say Flanders uses 100YW English w/ Flemish allies. But I didn't check everyone as closely as I would have liked, and the game is fairly new so I probably missed some things in that regard.

When you do the research on your Kingdom, everyone let me know if you think you should get certain allies with your kingdom's army list, and we can add them if it feels like it would fit for what we are doing in the campaign.

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:45 pm

First Season

Don't worry too much guys on all the rules. The first season or two will be a learning time, and I will really walk us through the phases as we go. I think everyone will pick it up pretty quickly.

alliances

I would suggest that England and France should start communicating with its alliance members, and the nuetrals, to start getting everyone on board for the coming year. Also, the larger Kingdoms like Normandy and Brittany should take a lead role in marshalling your alliances kingdoms for the war.

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:51 pm

Here is a copy of the rules for starting army sizes. Some Kingdoms can start with more than one army, I have also pasted the limits. I would suggest that you go ahead and start building your armies, and if you have any questions let me know. That way we will be ready to start going on Monday. Please also remember that you can only add new points during certain phase, so the free build points are all you will start with until the end of the first year.

France: Starts with 700 army points and may form as many armies as it wants subject to army maximum (in any province it controls) & 1400 Silver Marks.
England: Starts with 600 army points...& 1000 Silver Marks.
Burgundy: Starts with 400 army points...& 400 Silver Marks.
Duke of Brittany: Starts with 500 army points...& 500 Silver Marks.
Count of Flanders: Starts with 500 army points...& 500 Silver Marks.
Duke of Normandy: Starts with 500 army points... & 500 Silver Marks.
All others: Starts with 400 army points...& 400 Silver Marks.

France: May have a maximum of three armies in the field.
England: Maximum of two armies in the field.
Burgundy: Maximum of two armies in the field.
Duke of Brittany: Maximum of two armies in the field.
Count of Flanders: Maximum two armies in the field.
Duke of Normandy: Maximum two armies in the field.
All others: Maximum one army in the field.
*There is no limit to the size of the armies (only what a Kingdom can afford).

ianiow · Post by **ianiow** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:53 pm

Roughly, what is the starting date of this campaign? I only ask because I would like to google up what was historically happening in my province at this time - who was the leader, what battle campaigns where being fought etc.