Campaign linkage

Magnates raise Riding Retinue, Well-Wisher and Commission of Array contingent counters by shire in the campaign; at battle these are converted to bands and grouped into companies and wards, with minor nobles drawn to command. Captives and Chronicle outcomes feed back to the campaign.

If using the ACOP Campaign system, divide the contingents from the host that is engaged in a battle on the campaign board into wards, and choose out the ward commanders

Each scenario's Consequences page awards kilometres by result (for example Major victory 10km +2d6km) and may set the next scenario or a pre-game decision. The Germans need 80km in total to win. Results carry forward, for example losing a T-34 battalion after a Major German victory in #0.

Which scenarios are played, and in what order, depends on the decisions you make and the outcome of your battles!

The three army numbers (moves, killing attacks, break point) are deliberately few so Matrix Game players can argue to raise their own or lower the enemy's.

So the battle game has to have some kind of numbers that MG players can manipulate.

Days before the game each commander in chief receives a statement of the problem with different information, writes a plan of campaign and assigns detached commanders. Moves of umpire-set length are plotted on charts, transferred to tracing paper and collated on the umpire's chart; rules cover cable cutting, torpedo boat and destroyer radius, telegraph messages and fitting out auxiliaries. A critique follows the game.

The Strategic Game represents a campaign between two or more opposing naval forces.

After each act the Cowboys secretly move one space on a map toward the border while the Earp player guesses their location; a correct guess triggers that location's scenario. Silver Dollars buy extra characters or effects; killed characters are removed permanently and wounded survivors return with one permanent wound.

After playing each act, the Cowboys secretly move one space the map, forcing the Earps to guess their location!

Captains mark courses on sketch maps in six-hour runs; ships within sighting are moved on 1,000-yard squares in 10-minute moves, and when leading ships are 5,000 yards apart the tactical game is set up and played out, then strategic movement resumes.

So soon as the leading ships are 5,000 yards off each other, the board must be set up with the proper pieces, and the tactical game played with the squares representing 100 yards.

A Citizen who fires at an opponent becomes a Gunman; a Gunman who kills an armed man becomes a Shootist. A Shootist who kills or seriously wounds three armed men in one fight, or kills a Legend, becomes a Legend. Shootists gain a skill per fight with a kill and Legends per fight with a wound. Backshooting and refusing challenges forfeit experience (except for Evil characters), and seriously wounded characters miss gunfights.

Characters do not receive promotion to the next class during a game, they have to wait for their next gunfight.

The map is divided into many small land and sea provinces; countries have 5-10 cities, two or three of them ports. The campaigning season runs through spring, summer and fall with movement in weeks. Battles between forces in the same province are fought with DBA, or Big Battle DBA when three armies are on each side.

The rules are now written so battles can be fought using DBA rules (Big Battle DBA when three armies are involved on each side).

Campaigns run June 1915-November 1918, each session a week; players have two pilots and an observer, replacements start as novices. Survival after crashes uses Crash Result, Bailing Out and Evade tables, modified by a rolled ground offensive. The pilot with most XP wins; side totals double two-seater mission XP.

As the campaign progresses, pilots will gain expertise, be wounded or killed, and new types of air- craft will become available.

Each player has three cities and a 12-element field army; three seasonal rounds a year. Armies move 2 stages along routes; sea moves risk storms; armies out of supply lose elements. Sieges need 6 (or 5-6) on a die, improving each season. Losses go to a reserve, recruited at 1 per city each winter; prestige points accrue for elements destroyed, camps and generals.

This section contains procedures for a simple mini-campaign for 3 to 6 players, capable if desired of being played to a conclusion in one day

Each player starts with a household retinue chosen from the battle rules' core troops, then selects six Actions and Alarums covering the campaign from 'the cold season of the year' to the battle. The results are compared and modify the engagement fought on the tabletop.

The campaign framework sets out six stages between the commencement of the campaign – “in the cold season of the year” – and a significant battle on the tabletop.

Each day the British may conduct one action; the Americans stay on the defensive except for three operations over the whole game. Casualties are recorded because neither side receives reinforcements apart from the relief columns. Battles generated by actions are fought with any AWI ruleset.

Each day the British may conduct one action. The Americans may conduct three operations at once during the game; otherwise they are on the defensive.

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.

The campaign runs May 23 to June 23, 1862; each wargame day equals 11-12 tactical moves. Counters represent the actual figure brigades; strategic moves are exchanged by phone using copies of the hex map.

We further decided to fight the campaign for 30 game days from May 23, 1862 to June 23, 1862 with each wargame day consisting of 11-12 tactical wargame table battle moves.

Starting at Tobruk, a Victory pushes the enemy back one area and a Major Victory two; losing the last-stand area (Tunisia or Cairo) is total defeat. Divisions with half their bases Destroyed are left out of the next game's force pack. After a Major Victory the next battle allows half the minefields and dug-in positions.

A Victory pushes the enemy back one area; a Major Victory pushes two spaces. Losing their "last stand" area means total defeat!

For campaign games, the loser regains 30% of eliminated figures with 20% captured, the winner 50%. Prisoners must be escorted to the captor's baggage park with one guard figure per 10 prisoners. Depleted units may be converged after 2 stationary turns.

Figures eliminated by a battle will be returned at the following rates for campaign games: loser 30% return, 20% captured. Winner 50% return.

Each infantry figure is a brigade (2,000 men), each cavalry figure a regiment. Road-moving armies string out single file; cross-country armies can advance deployed. Fighting only happens when an argument says so.

Each turn lasts one week. Consequently movement rates are very large.

The three book scenarios can be played in sequence, carrying Geld and casualties forward between games.

Players may even wish to play these scenarios linked together, tracking their Geld and casualties between games!

Also included: breakdown of Mahdist armies 1881-1899 and a painting guide.

I added a lot of campaign information and easy rules for gunboats, trains and balloons

Each player starts with one province. Battle winners gain one adjacent province (or one across the Atlantic or Mediterranean seas); an enemy-held province can only be taken from a player defeated that round or who declined an invitation. Draws risk devastation (5-6 on a D6), removing the province's bonus and count. Most provinces after the agreed rounds decides the winner, against the emperor if necessary.

A player will gain a province of their choice at the end of a round by winning a battle, subject to the following restrictions: i. The province gained must always be one that is adjacent to one already controlled

To succeed the player must survive at least 10 patrols while tracking total tonnage sunk. Each patrol is recorded in the log book with tonnage, torpedoes fired, damage, repairs and survival.

A campaign is a series of linked games where you go out on several consecutive patrols. To be successful, you will need to: Survive at least 10 patrols