Ok Ok all those evil plans can now be hatched. Here are the Campaign details.
Artillery rules for all periods
1) Must have 6 bases of foot battle troops for each base of Lt/Med/Hvy artillery
2) All heavy artillery starting the battle unlimbered must be deployed first. Limbered heavy artillery may be deployed at any time. The army list must specify whether the artillery is limbered or unlimbered. The player may send in two army lists with different order of marches only, depending on whether they want their heavy artillery to start limbered/unlimbered or a combination of both if they have more than one BG of Heavy artillery.
3) Light and medium artillery can deploy at any time during the order of march.
4) If artillery is captured, the player who has captured them can at the end of the turn in which he has captured them, during the JAP phase, after all auto routing troops have been removed, choose to remove the artillery.
Allies and special options are allowed if specified.
Army lists for periods 1 and 2 need to be sent to me at
ben@benedictjones.plus.com, those for period 3 to be sent to Bob Medcraft
robertmedcraft2009@hotmail.co.uk to check, as I am planning to fight in that period. A maximum of two lists may be submitted, so if using the commanded out shot options as well as Heavy artillery options, there is still only a maximum of two lists to be submitted.
The Periods
1) By popular acclaim:
Last Trumpet of the Elephants, Southern Asia 1650-1698
Minimum of 4 Elephant bases, no more than 16 bases of Superior Battle Troops
Mughal
Vietnamese (May have Khmer allies)
Thai Burmese and Khmer (May have Portuguese allies)
Indonesian or Malaccan (must be an option that has Elephants),(may have Dutch allies if Johor Sultanate)
Hindu Indian (May have Dutch allies if Sinhalese Kingdom)
Muslim Indian
2) Close one but more peasants than religious fanatics in today’s war gamers:
Peasant Revolts and their Overlords. An army must have as many poor bases as it has sup/elite bases. (mob and LF count towards these totals)
Peasant Wars (Please specify your uprising)
German States 1524-1526 (may have German State allies, and use South or East Germany options)
Maximillian Imperial (no Italy options) 1514-1516
Hungarian 1514
Vasa Swedish 1542-1543 (Any bases may be downgraded too Poor to obey the poor/sup rule)
Early Danish 1534-1536
3) A tie so Umpires choice:
Friends and Enemies of Charles II and his wife 1660-1685.
Later Dutch included as although the war was fought at sea, there could have been a land battle.
Restoration British (Includes Tangiers and In Scotland options)
Later Spanish (Spain only)
Late Restoration Portuguese
North African States
Covenanting Rebels
Monmouth Rebellion
Later Dutch