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Post by Ymbert Montgomery on Aug 15, 2019 13:55:10 GMT
Yep, that one hasn't changed from the core rules!
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Post by mochnant on Aug 15, 2019 15:16:31 GMT
Might be worth mentioning Brigadier Generals can normally command any brigade, but typically when they are a brevet Brigadier they are limited to the brigade of the regiment they are Colonel of.
The GM can confirm that is still how the house rules are here.0
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Post by huillaume on Aug 15, 2019 19:07:00 GMT
Yep, that one hasn't changed from the core rules! In the original rules (at least 1 st edition, that is the one I have played and own) this was not specified, though when I played it, we always assumed this.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 14:29:47 GMT
20.13 The summer campaign takes three months. The first month is assumed to be deployment and maneuver.
I would like to ask why the first month of the campaign is wasted just getting there. I can only assume the reason is to cut down on Mentioned in dispatches opportunities, but given the constant need for SPs to maintain one's SL, that doesn't make sense either.
If one volunteers for service outside of the summer, is the first month also wasted?
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Post by huillaume on Aug 16, 2019 14:37:57 GMT
20.13 The summer campaign takes three months. The first month is assumed to be deployment and maneuver. I would like to ask why the first month of the campaign is wasted just getting there. I can only assume the reason is to cut down on Mentioned in dispatches opportunities, but given the constant need for SPs to maintain one's SL, that doesn't make sense either. If one volunteers for service outside of the summer, is the first month also wasted? I guess the reason is historical accuracy, albeit, as you say, it takes away rewards possibilities. Troops moves were slow at this time.
Single men joining the already deployed troops was not so slow, though...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 14:43:28 GMT
There is some historical support as you say, but then another month should be spent coming back for just the same reason.
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Post by Ymbert Montgomery on Aug 16, 2019 15:30:12 GMT
20.13 The summer campaign takes three months. The first month is assumed to be deployment and maneuver. I would like to ask why the first month of the campaign is wasted just getting there. I can only assume the reason is to cut down on Mentioned in dispatches opportunities, but given the constant need for SPs to maintain one's SL, that doesn't make sense either. If one volunteers for service outside of the summer, is the first month also wasted? That's one I took from elsewhere and I've no great attachment to it. So happy to remove that rule unless anyone wants to come to its defense?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 15:32:12 GMT
Thanks. I could see a couple of weeks at most to keep things manageable.
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Post by huillaume on Aug 16, 2019 17:38:29 GMT
There is some historical support as you say, but then another month should be spent coming back for just the same reason. If you take the dates exactly, that's true. If you think 2 weeks for deployement, a month (or two) og campaign and two more weeks to return , not so much.
See that Most France fighting in 1630 was against Hugenots, so fighting were not far from Paris, and even in the thirty Years War (wich France had joined in 1635) , as France was surrendered by the Haubsburgs' territory, it fough an "interior lines" fighting, shortening its communications and movements.
The fact you need one month more may also be seen this way, while the true fighting taking fomr the 15th first month of campaigning to the 15th last month. If so, units should be able to choose if they volunteer for the next season , though, then allowing them for a tree month campaign (as they are already deployed).
E.g.; a unit volunteers in April. It begins camapigning in May, but it is sent to campaign )or keep as volunteer) in the summer campaign, then, it fights a three month camapign, while the rest of the Army, arriving as reinforcements, fight only two months. If so, deplyements for next summer should be announced in April, and affected units should be allowed to volunteer in May, and then fight a three months campaign in Summer (as an exception to not being able to volunteer last month in a season).
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Post by huillaume on Aug 16, 2019 17:40:15 GMT
20.13 The summer campaign takes three months. The first month is assumed to be deployment and maneuver. I would like to ask why the first month of the campaign is wasted just getting there. I can only assume the reason is to cut down on Mentioned in dispatches opportunities, but given the constant need for SPs to maintain one's SL, that doesn't make sense either. If one volunteers for service outside of the summer, is the first month also wasted? That's one I took from elsewhere and I've no great attachment to it. So happy to remove that rule unless anyone wants to come to its defense? Accepting the deployement month is, IMHO, historically wise. Campaigning for three months a season, though, is more game wise...
So, if it came to voting, I'd abstain, seeing wisdom in both cases
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 17:41:29 GMT
I was in another game that at the end of the season, all volunteer (i.e. non-Frontier regiments) had to return to Paris no matter what. I was suggesting the two weeks as a compromise.
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Post by Ymbert Montgomery on Aug 16, 2019 19:46:35 GMT
Just a few thoughts on this:
In terms of historical accuracy, I'm more interested in verisimilitude. I'm pretty sure there are lots of things in the game that would make a historian of the period wince! Especially as I see En Garde! as not so much a simulation of the period, as an emulation of the literature around it (especially Dumas).
From a mechanical point of view I'd prefer to either leave the rule as is or drop it completely. Having a two week deployment period makes things more complicated than treating each month at the front as a full turn.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 19:56:17 GMT
I vote to drop it.
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Post by Ymbert Montgomery on Aug 16, 2019 19:57:44 GMT
I'll set up a poll. (There's not really any rush anyway, considering we're only coming up to the February turn!)
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Post by Yves Eau on Aug 28, 2019 13:32:20 GMT
To be a fencing school instructor, a PC requires "an EXP greater than the highest EXP level taught there". Is this base EXP, current skill with his best weapon, or current skill with worst?
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