From: David Gregory Hunter <hunterf@SFU.CA>
Subject:      100YW Q&A #1

Here are some more questions and answers for 30YW/100YW from J.
Miranda.  Another smaller file follows this one.

Greg

> FOLLOWING ARE MY ANSWERS TO ASSORTED 100YW/30YW
> QUESTIONS.
> -JOSEPH
>
>  I have just a question concerning the games 100 Years War and 30 Years War.
>  The Treasury Points paid for recruitment and maintenance of units, are
> they paid per unit (without regard to its strength) or per strength point?
>  Yours sincerely
>                                               Gabriel Gonzalez
>
>
> ANSWER: PAID PER STRENGTH POINT
>
>
>
> 1) In a battle, when a longbowman rolls a '6' to hit, it kills two
> enemy units.  Now, if the declared target type has only one strength
> point, is that extra kill lost, or can it be applied to another enemy
> unit? ANOTHER UNIT.
>
> 2)Also in a battle, how are targets declared, by the type of enemy
> unit, or the actual enemy strength step of a certain type?  For
> example, say I am attacking an enemy force of 2 chivalry, 1 pikeman
> and 2 militia.  Can I attack the 2 chivalry strength points with one
> attack, then attack the pikeman, etc., or do I have to attack each
> individual strength point? BY  STRENGTH STEP
>
> 3)Sieges: The siege rules make it possible to bottle up a very large
> force in a fortress with only a single unit.  It seems to me that the
> superior force would not let itself be starved to death in the
> fortress when it could sally forth and annihilate the smaller force on
> the battlefield.  This is a result of having the troop payment segment
> before the movement segment.  Is this your intent here, and why?
> MY INTENT WAS TO KEEP PLAYERS FROM RELYING TOO MUCH
> ON FORTRESSES.
>
> 4)Besieged fortresses:  Assuming that the units in a besieged fortress
> survive, may they then try to break out of the fortress by attacking
> their besiegers?  YES
> Which CRT would they use?  LAND BATTLE, NOT SIEGE
> If the defenders have
> artillery with them, do they have the same effect as for attackers?
> EFFECTS AS FOR LAND BATTLE
>
> 5)Pillaging: This has come a great deal in discussions on the consim-l
> mail-list.  It is very easy for a single militia unit to walk around
> and lay waste to a couple of provinces in one turn.  Now, if there is
> an enemy force in that area, why can't they attempt to prevent the
> lone unit from pillaging the area? NO
>  Also, if a strength point
> represents about 2000 men, is it possible for that few people to
> destroy areas as large as some on the board, even given a year?  I
> don't mean to criticize, I am just curious about why the rules are the
> way they are.
> RAIDS WERE A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS FORM OF WARFARE.
> MUCH OF THE 100 YEARS WAR CONSISTED OF RAIDS. REMEMBER, THOUGH,
> IT COSTS EXTRA OPS POINTS TO EXIT AN ENEMY OCCUPIED AREA, SO
> UTILITY OF RAIDERS CAN BE LIMITED BY DEFENDING IN DEPTH.
>
> And finally, a comment.  My first thought about this game was:  The
> French can't possibly win.  The English economic juggernaut will roll
> over them.  Now, after playing, I know differently.  The random events
> table and the possibility of bad results on the Parliament tables
> (which happen more of than I thought!) even things out.  The French
> are still the more difficult position to play, but it's not as
> hopeless as I originally thought.  A very interesting game.  The Scots
> are a very strategically beneficial ally for the French.  (Explains a
> lot of history!)
> YES. SEVERAL EVENTS, SUCH AS NATIONALISM, WERE INCLUDED TO
> UNDERMINE THE STRONGER PLAYER. A NEW SCENARIO, BASED ON
> JOAN OF ARC, WILL APPEAR IN MOVES MAGAZINE LATER THIS YEAR.
>
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Greg Hunter
hunterf@sfu.ca

From: David Gregory Hunter <hunterf@SFU.CA>
Subject:      100yw Q&A #2

> MY RESPONSES ARE IN CAPITALS
>
> --JOSEPH
>
> ----
> The +1 added on a roll of the Feudal Array/Parliament table due to
> enemy occupation of your country: is that +1 for each province
> occupied, or +1 regardless of the number of enemy-occupied provinces.
> The table suggests the latter to me, but there is some confusion in my
> current PBeM game.
>
> THAT IS +1 REGARDLESS OF NUMBER OF PROVINCES (OTHERWISE
> IT WOULD GET OUT OF HAND.)
>
> I eagerly await Byzantium!
>
> BYZANTIUM WILL HAVE A LOT OF STRATAGEM CHITS FOR
> VARIOUS POLITICAL INTERACTIONS.

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Greg Hunter
hunterf@sfu.ca