Army breakpoint

Verses are added for events like the king in the enemy camp, being outnumbered 3:2, successful enemy bombardment, enemy reinforcements, a friendly ward broken or withdrawing, or a Prop killed or captured. In the Assay phase, Doubt forces Falter tests and lowers commitment, Crisis makes failures rout, Cast Down forces withdrawal. When the enemy suffers an asterisked event, a side may 'forget' its last verse on a card draw.

At the bottom of each Ward Display sheet is a series of boxes that constitute the “Chronicle Track”, on which the morale of the entire Host and the battle is tracked.

Each army has Arete points on a nationality-specific track, giving states Eager, Firm, Unsteady or Shaken; the state modifies Andreia numbers, belos reactions and melee attack totals. Points change during play: -1 per own lochos routed, -5 senior taxis routed, -2 strategos killed, -2 per turn flank enveloped or phalanx in retreat, phalanx under fire, with matching gains for enemy losses. An army whose Arete points fall below zero must withdraw from the field.

the Arete level is the current general morale status of an army. It is expressed in one of four “states” which an army will be in depending on the total Arete points accumulated at any given moment in a battle

Break point = (armed stands + 2 per HQ + 3 per GHQ) x determination level (35% base, adjusted by situation and nationality) x 7. Each GHQ's formation uses its own poker deck: draw one card per stand lost (two for an HQ, three for a GHQ) and keep the total hidden. When the total exceeds the break point the formation breaks: -5 cohesion except for movement, fires only if fired on, no new artillery plots, airstrikes cancelled, and it must move toward its friendly edge. If all of a side's formations break, the enemy must pass rising cohesion checks to keep fighting.

Every time that unit loses a stand the player draws a poker card. When the total drawn exceeds the unit’s break point it begins behaving very differently.

On an event roll of 6-8, a fleet that has lost half or more of its squadrons (rounded up) leaves the field. If both fleets qualify, each rolls a d6 with +1 for the defending fleet, +1 for more Determined squadrons, -1 for more Poorly motivated squadrons and -1 if the admiral was killed; the lower roll abandons the field.

6-8 A fleet which lost half of its squadrons or more leaves the field*

At the end of the bound in which half your units have routed, and each subsequent bound in which another unit routs, roll 1d6: on 1-3 the remaining army routs and the battle is lost.

At the end of the bound in which half your army’s units have routed, and each bound in which another unit routs, roll 1d6: 1-3 lose battle because remaining units rout.

Triggers are a unit falling below half (1 roll), a unit destroyed (1 roll) and an objective captured (2 rolls). Each roll gives 1 BP on 1-3, 2 on 4-5 and 3 on 6. The Break Limit is 5 plus 2 per unit; once Break Points exceed it at a qualifying moment, the force routs and the game ends. There is no fixed turn limit.

When certain conditions are met, your opponent rolls 1d6 to generate Break Points: 1-3 generates 1 BP, 4-5 generates 2 BP, and 6 generates 3 BP.

Before play each side halves its base count (round up); the lower figure is both sides' shattered point. In his status phase the active player rolls one die and adds enemy bases removed; equal or greater wins the game.

In the victory step of his status phase the active player rolls one die and adds it to the number of enemy bases removed from the game. If the resulting total is equal to or greater than the shattered point, then he has won the game.

Models of both allied forces are summed for break points and casualties. At the end of each turn each objective a side controls (a model within 4" and no enemy within 4") in the enemy's half adds one break point to the enemy; these do not accumulate and can swing turn to turn. Both sides breaking together is a draw.

The objective-related break points do not accumulate from turn to turn; they must be checked at the end of each turn, counting only for that turn

At the end of each turn both sides roll 1d10; if the roll is less than or equal to the number of their characters dead, Lily Livered or Unconscious, their remaining men flee and the scenario ends.

If the roll is less than or equal to the number of your characters currently dead, Lily Livered, or Unconscious, the remaining men skedaddle and the scenario ends!

Players choose fast or decisive games before play. Units forced off the table by rout count as destroyed. A draw is possible once either side has no reinforcements left by exiting all units off one's own edge.

"Fast" games are lost by the first player who has 5 units destroyed;

Checked at the end of any bound. A camp occupied by the enemy counts as 2 extra elements lost; elements recoiling or fleeing off the board or from a camp count as lost.

The first side that at the end of any bound has lost either its general or 4 elements, and has also lost more elements than the enemy, loses the battle.

In the Quality Check phase, any formation past two-thirds losses makes one unmodified roll against Quality, and on a failure all its surviving stands are removed. The test is repeated every later turn in which the formation loses another stand.

During the Quality Check Phase, both sides check to see if any formations have lost more than 2/3 of their stands.

The threshold can be raised by agreement (60-100%). If time runs out, the side that has lost fewer points of units wins. Optionally, the death of the Commander-in-Chief loses the battle.

More than 50% of its combat stands are lost causing the army to break.

Campaign battles use a low break point (1-3) to keep battles to about ten minutes; stand-up games use 4-6.

Break point is how many stands one can Lose before losing the battle.

A brigade is Broken when more than half its starting infantry and cavalry are Broken; its Shaken units are removed and its steady units can only Hold, Reform or Advance (retiring away from the enemy). When more than half the brigades are Broken, the army breaks and the game ends at the end of the turn.

When more than ½ (rounded up) of the brigades in an army are Broken, the army becomes Broken and the game ends at the end of the current game turn.

At the end of each turn count bases in each Dead Pool (light troops excluded). Losing more than one third of starting bases means defeat; if both exceed it, the game is a draw. With the points system the threshold is a third of the army's points, or a quarter for a faster big battle.

If one army has lost more than one third of the number of bases it started with ... then it is defeated and the other side can declare Victory.