7:33–8:04
Keith rolls blaster attacks for Chewbacca and the Wookiees against defending Stormtroopers, scoring three hits. Tony rolls three red defense dice, saves one, and removes two Stormtrooper figures.
9:00–9:30
Danish archers shoot at Saxon archers in a watchtower, scoring two hits. The defender rolls cover saves (needing 4+) and armor saves (needing 2 or less), resulting in one casualty.
12:44–13:28
A German Stuka arrives on a randomized air-support roll and strafes four Soviet platoons, forcing Steve to make four troop quality tests.
13:07–14:01
Greg launches G Company into close combat against a suppressed German 88mm flak gun. After calculating modifiers (+5 for the Americans and -2 for the German crew), an opposed single-die roll results in Greg's 9 annihilating Tony's 1.
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There is no casualty tracking; elements are only recoiled, fled or destroyed whole.
By design players learn only whether a body advances, holds, edges back or disintegrates. Elements destroyed are removed; those recoiling or fleeing off the board edge or from a camp count as lost.
Wargames rules that tell players losses suffered and inflicted during play are therefore inherently unrealistic.
Killed vehicles are out of action and may or may not burn.
Each killed vehicle rolls 50-50 for burning, marked with dark cotton; non-burning wrecks may be wastefully fired at again. Forces can be enlarged by re-entering destroyed vehicles.
This probability is set at a 50-50 chance. This is important since those vehicles not burning stand a good chance of being fired at again and again.
A single hit removes the target unit immediately.
When a hit is scored the enemy unit is destroyed and removed by the active player at once, before any other action. Removal means the unit is no longer a functioning fighting unit rather than necessarily killed. There is no morale system; unit loss is the only attrition.
A 5+ is a hit. When a hit is scored, the enemy unit is destroyed, and taken off the table by the active player.
Casualties remove whole bands, with removal rules depending on the source.
Flight casualties come from the lightest-armoured bands first; Sheaf casualties from the closest rank; handstrokes only from bands in contact, weakest first. Light casualties are at least 1 band, Heavy at least 2; winning by 10+ strength adds one, and companies of 40+ strength double casualties. Losing 4 bands in a round or being reduced to 3 or fewer is an automatic rout; losing half the starting bands removes all Courage.
Lose 4 bands in casualties in one round: automatic Rout. •3 bands or less remaining at end of round: automatic Rout.
Each kill removes one 1:1 figure.
All fire and melee results are expressed as killed figures, removed from the table. Removed Mexican figures feed the reserve pool.
Sum of all dice equals the number of kills.
Losses are whole stands, removed by kills or failed Quality Checks.
Stands are removed only by a 6 on vehicle effect dice, artillery against unarmoured stands in the open, or a failed Quality Check. Destroyed trucks eliminate their cargo, and infantry in a destroyed halftrack or tank survive on a passed Quality Check.
If a truck is destroyed, any infantry or towed weapons it carries are also eliminated.
There is no attrition: lochoi are broken and removed as wholes, leaving casualty markers.
A lochos that is routed by fire or melee or slaughtered is lost (routers leave the board), and a Casualty counter is placed where it broke. These counters have no other effect but determine possession of the dead for victory.
Any time that a Hoplite or Peltaste lochos, or an ile of Hippeis is routed either by Belos Fire or by melee, or is slaughtered, a Casualty counter is placed as near to the point at which it broke or died.
Stands are removed from 4 hits upward, and depleted units can merge.
Every class starts losing stands at 4 hits. A 4-stand unit reduced to one stand is removed, and 6-stand hordes can take up to 9 hits. Reduced units of the same type and class in adjacent hexes can combine during movement to rebuild full units. Stand loss also lowers the impact bonus and shooting dice.
All units start to lose stands regardless of their troop class ( A-E) when 4 or more ‘hits’ are scored against them.
Bases are removed for defeats, failed retreats and DPs while Shaken.
A Defeat costs 1 casualty base; Shaken units lose a base per further non-fatigue DP; caught evaders/routers suffer free hacks (casualty per 4+). Casualties come from the front rank except wedges, which lose rear ranks.
Casualties are taken from the front rank except for units in wedge which take casualties from the rear rank.
Each figure is a soldier and is removed when killed by fire or melee.
Casualties are individual figures toppled by shot or allocated in melee. There is no wound or morale system; forces simply dwindle until victory, a draw under fifteen men each, or surrender.
When men are knocked over by a shot they are dead
Losses remove bases chosen by the owner; infantry reduced to one base break.
The owning player chooses which bases to remove so long as the formation stays legal, even ones not in the enemy's range. An infantry unit reduced to a single base is removed as broken; artillery can remain at one base. Removed bases are kept to count against the shattered point.
When an infantry unit is reduced to only a single base, that base is also removed, and the unit is broken.
A casualty removes one company or troop, or knocks out a gun.
Casualties come from combat results, morale contagion, short-range artillery and DPs in excess of 5. One casualty removes a three-figure infantry company or two-figure cavalry troop; a gun that takes a casualty is knocked out. Each casualty is -2 in combat.
Loss of one ‘casualty’: Remove one company (three figures) of infantry or one troop (two figures) of cavalry. A gun that receives a casualty is knocked out.
Each casualty removes a whole company or troop; a gun taking a casualty is knocked out.
Casualties come from fire and combat results and from DPs in excess of the five-DP maximum. One casualty removes three infantry figures or two cavalry figures; guns are knocked out by a single casualty. Each casualty is -2 in combat.
Loss of one ‘casualty’: Remove one company (three figures) of infantry or one troop (two figures) of cavalry. A gun that receives a casualty is knocked out.
Hits remove individual figures; artillery hits kill crew figures or guns.
Each small-arms hit removes one figure and melee table results are figures lost. Counter-battery hits roll d10: 1-6 one crew casualty, 7-9 two, 10 re-roll with 6-10 destroying the gun. Crew losses are replaced from infantry within 5" but the battery then fires on the next lower ability table for the rest of the battle.
Whenever an artillery crew becomes a casualty, it is assumed that the nearest infantry unit will provide drafts to replenish the crew, if the friendly infantry unit is within 5" of the battery
Melee losses remove stands in half-stand steps.
A squadron has four stands, each of two models, and Battle test results strip half, one or one and a half stands from the enemy. Single-model stands track half-stand losses. In 1:1 play, squadrons have 8 stands and losses are doubled.
You may want to have a few stands with only one model, to use when a unit lost half a stand in melee.
Hits are saved by rolling under Armor; failures mark a wound and the figure is removed at end of turn.
The target rolls a d6: at or under Armor ignores the hit, otherwise it gets a Blood Token. In the End of Turn phase figures with Blood Tokens are removed as killed unless Tough.
If the roll is equal to their Armor rating or lower, the hit is ignored. If this roll is higher than their Armor rating, they suffer a wound.
Each hit kills one figure; casualties are recorded on the back rank and consolidated into whole stands.
Casualty markers go on the rear rank so the front stays intact for fire, and losses are consolidated so whole stands can be removed. Artillery is destroyed when its last gunner dies; attached engineers or pioneers can replace gunners until then.
Casualties within a unit should be consolidated so that an entire stand can be removed.
Destroyed bases are removed, with formed troops placed in a Dead Pool used for victory.
Destroyed light infantry and skirmisher bases go back in the box; other destroyed bases go in a 'Dead Pool' on the owner's table edge. Hits fall on bases nearest the shooters (or as the inflicting player chooses in a fight), and a unit's command base is always lost last.
Put any other destroyed bases in a “Dead Pool” on your own edge of the battlefield.
A hit model makes an armour save or is removed.
Each model has a Save value (naked 6+, clothed villager 5+, samurai armour 3+). Failing a save removes the model. Poison and bombs reduce saves by 1, silent kill by 2.
A hit requires the model to make a save or be removed from play.