In Search of the Perfect Campaign System (Linear Warfare campaign rules)

Orders take turns to arrive according to how many roads the detachment is distant from the commander; a detachment receiving superseding orders completes the old ones before starting the new, unless the commander is in contact with it.

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Each player adds his irregular cavalry squadrons and light infantry battalions to 2d6; the higher total may examine one enemy counter per point of excess, with the owner naming the real units. When two forces move down the same road, the side with more irregular cavalry and light infantry pushes the other back.

Players add the number of irregular cavalry squadrons and light infantry battalions they have and throw 2d6. The player with the higher total gets to examine one counter for each point total in excess

Each brigade is a counter, with dummy counters issued in proportion to actual counters; a dummy revealed by scouting is discarded and does not return until the next campaigning season.

If it is a dummy counter, it is discarded, and doesn't come back until the beginning of the next campaigning season.

Taken from Soldier Kings (GDW). Each box is a city or important location; solid-line roads represent easy going, dashed lines hard going. Movement is simultaneous per the turn sequence.

The movement system is the box-to-box system borrowed from Soldier Kings (GDW). Each box represents a city or important location.

Withdrawal must be declared before any figures are placed. If contact occurred mid-way through a two-box move, the mover finishes into the remaining box, and if the retreater fell back into that box combat happens anyway.

Players indicate they are withdrawing before combat before any figures are set out on the table. They get a free move away.

A solid road costs 1 MP, a dashed road 2 MP, and a river costs 1 MP downstream and 2 MP otherwise.

The roads linking them come in two t/pes: the lice, which & slower going. = ? movement points available. A solid road costs i MP. A fN A dashed

Half of all casualties (rounded down) return right after the battle. Cannon abandoned or overrun become the victor's, half usable from the next map turn. A battle lasts until one side concedes; the loser gets one free retreat march and gives half its returnees as prisoners. If neither concedes after at least 24 turns before nightfall, both are treated as losers.

If neither side concedes defeat, and a minimum of 24 turns have gone b/, then night falls, both sides consider they are the losers, and take a free march away.

Each side throws 1d6; the higher chooses to deploy a unit or make the opponent deploy one. The side that deployed adds 1 to its next throw, cumulatively. Units must be within 6" of a previously deployed unit or on the baseline, outside enemy irregular charge distance plus 1". Deployment order: irregular cavalry, light infantry, dragoons, cuirassier/horse brigades, infantry brigades.

Each side throws 1d6 (if a tie, throw again). The side with the higher number has the choice of deploying a unit, or having the opponent deploy a unit.

Designed for unitary armies of 1670-1791 that fight as a single body, assuming a figure ratio of 3-figure squadrons and 12-figure battalions; weekly turns, with campaigning seasons. The author has adapted it for Renaissance and ancients campaigns.

I've been fiddling with a '‚¿odified vergion of these rules for Renaissance, ... rennval system with 3 figure squadrons, and 12 figure battalions, or a 1:50 liyure scale.

Each city has 4 boxes and an automatic militia brigade garrison. After establishing a depot on the city, the besieger rolls 1d6 each turn; 5 or 6 removes a box, and when all are removed there is a breach. Defenders may then surrender as POWs or be stormed; storming kills defenders and an equal number of attackers and gives later sieges that year a cumulative +1. Defenders lose 1d6 figures per siege roll.

Each city is worth 4 boxes. A city autogatically has a ... Evet / week after that throw 1d6 for the siege. A 5 or ó removes 1 When all the boxes are removed there is a breach.

The tabletop battlefield is created when a box first sees battle; thereafter players fight on that same battlefield whenever they fight in that box.

Once a battlefield has been created for a box, that is the battlefield players will fight on every time they fight in that box.

Units out of supply must move back into supply; each turn out of supply each battalion and cavalry regiment loses 1d6/2 (round up) figures to desertion (-1 for grenadiers/guards, +1 for militia). Four brigades spending a full turn in a box while in supply create a new depot. The optional intricate system counts mouths (1 per figure, 10 per horse, doubled), rolls box supply values, and depletes boxes by 10-20% per occupied turn.

If you are within 4 roads of a depot, you are in supply. You cannot purposely march out of supply.

Values: regular foot 1, regular cavalry 3, brigade commander 10, army commander 30. Exchanged prisoners return to their units immediately; exchange is optional, and irregulars cannot be exchanged.

At the end of every month prisoners are exchanged, following table of point equivalents: Regular Foot 1 Regular Cavalry 3 Brigade Commander 10 Army Commander 30

1 Write moves; 2 movement; 3 for contacts: determine push-backs, scouting, battlefield, optional withdrawal, deploy, fight; 4 make siege rolls; 5 mark one week off the calendar.

a) Determine push-backs b) Determine scouting c) Determine battlefield d) One or both sides withdraw if desired e) Deploy f) Fight 4. Make Siege Rolls 5. Mark 1 week off the calendar.

Troops not in the same box as the Army Commander and not a city garrison are detachments and must have orders written for them; detachments with no orders sit still, and detachments that fight and lose return the way they came.

Troops that are not in the same box as the Army Commander, and are not the garrison of a city, are considered a detachment, and must have orders written for them.

Scouting uses 2d6, deployment, desertion and sieges use 1d6.

throw 1d6 for the siege. A 5 or 6 removes 1 box.