Slitherine

Attack! 2020

18/19 July

The Battle of Vienna 1683.



Rules: - FOGR with all amendments publish at that time plus those shown below.

Scale: - 15mm

Points: - 820 points plus the value of their cheapest base cost i.e. if the cheapest points for a base are 5 points then the player can have up to 825 points in their army.


Format – Singles competition with 4 x 3hour 15minute games

Venue: Devizes School, The Green, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 3AG

Armies: -

Later Polish & Lithuanian – Duty and Glory
Later Ottoman Turkish – Clash of Empires
Hungarian Kuruc Rebellion – Duty and Glory
Habsburg Austrian Imperial (Eastern) – Duty and Glory
Later German States (only Bavaria, Saxony, Swabia, Franconia) – Duty and Glory
Tatar – Clash of Empires
Wallachian/Moldavian - Clash of Empires



The following list modifications/restrictions and additional rules will apply:

Foot
1) The army cannot include more than 5 units with any pike capability.
2) When making any move including an evade starting or ending within 6MU of the enemy, they may make a full dragoon mounted move if they pass a CMT.
3) If they make a move which would be longer than that allowed to dragoons on foot they may shoot but as Carbines (range and effect) not Muskets as they are shooting from horseback, or have dismounted so quickly that they cannot shoot properly as a unit.
4) Dragoons may use Bayonet if the infantry in their army can at the relevant cost per base.


Mounted Troops
4) The army must include at least 16 bases of mounted battle troops.
5) No more than half of the mounted battle troops in the army can be Superior or Elite.
6) Armies with insufficient Superior mounted battle troops in their army list can upgrade whichever type of Average mounted battle troops in their list is most expensive in points to Superior up to the above limit.
7) Cavalry if they pass a CMT, can either move 2MU and turn 180, or turn 180 and move 2MU, as well as turn 180, move 2MU and turn 180.


Artillery
Any unlimbered heavy or medium artillery must be in the first BG's to be deployed

Fee: TBA

Closing date for entries will be Friday 26th June 2020 – this might be extended by a week but down to the Devizes & District Wargames Group

List checker: Don McHugh - send lists to donaldmchugh@btinternet.com – lists should be submitted no later than Saturday 4th July 2020 to allow time for checking.

Additional information; -

All the competition boards have been painted mottled greens and browns. If you want to bring a mat or cloth is it up to you



Tournament Schedule:

Saturday

Check-in: 8.30 am to 9.15 am (The earlier everyone gets here, the earlier we can get through check-in and “let the games begin”)

Round 1: 9.15 am to 12.30 pm

Lunch: 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm (meals are available from the café on site, but there can be long waits – if possible, find someone to take an order for you)

Round 2: 1.30 pm to 4.45 pm


Sunday

Round 3: 9.00 am to 12.15 pm (n.b.. earlier start-time than Saturday)

Lunch: 12.15 pm to 1.15 pm

Round 4: 1.15 pm to 4.30 pm

Prizegiving: As soon as we can work it out!

Nik,

I have agreed to do the list checking this year.

Don

Please note change to the modifications/restrictions for foot.

Did you mean specifically the Dragoons in the Foot section? It looks like the original:-

2/ Dragoons can make a full move even within 6" of the enemy if they pass a CMT.

has been replaced with:-

2) When making any move including an evade starting or ending within 6MU of the enemy, they may make a full dragoon mounted move if they pass a CMT.
3) If they make a move which would be longer than that allowed to dragoons on foot they may shoot but as Carbines (range and effect) not Muskets as they are shooting from horseback, or have dismounted so quickly that they cannot shoot properly as a unit.

Please confirm I have interpreted correctly, as this change seems to have overwritten the original version in this thread that I had noted; rather than it being published it as an update to the original guidance.

Also, are these changes specifically for the Attack! 2020 round of FOG-R only? Or are they intended to join the core of agreed amendments (like the "Cavalry if they pass a CMT, can either move 2MU and turn 180, or turn 180 and move 2MU, as well as turn 180, move 2MU and turn 180." - which seem to have been widely adopted as an agreed amendment)?

thanks

What is now in the announcement is what is being played at the comp.

Any rules, etc. that differ from the published rules (inc. errata and update) will only apply to the comp they are announced for.

Ok thanks Nik