Adam Starkweather - 06:17pm Mar 31, 2002 PST (#130 of 139) On the table - La Bataille de Quatre Bras et Ligny, Charlie's Year and Hegemon. PBeM-ing For the People. Started in on the rules and need a clarification regarding rule 8.215 (Basic game)... I assume finished for the turn means that a reacting unit (whether successful or not) cannot be activated any time later in the turn. If that is so... May an HQ that has already moved react? And if an HQ cannot react if it has moved earlier, does the reaction zone area exist for units that are unable to react (since they moved earlier in the turn)- for things like admin moving? The rules are pretty tight but I am about to kick the basic game up and start through the turns...hope you don't mind more Qs as they come up. Thanks in advance, Adam ian weir - 06:24pm Mar 31, 2002 PST (#131 of 139) All Right!! My first rules quibble! I'm going by Vol II 8.315 (since Vol I is at home) but the case is the same. Any HQ which reacts or attempts to react and fails, is finished for the turn. Any HQ which has conducted a prior operation that turn is unable to react. The prime rule is that an HQ may only be activated once ­ you choose what for, offensive or defensive. The Reaction Zone rule for the Admin phase refers to an HQ's POTENTIAL RZ, as Reaction only occurs in the Operations phase. Whether the HQ is Finished or not makes no difference, except during the Operations phase as noted. (The Admin Phase rule is a way of preventing players from performing strategic movement near the area of operations). Adam Starkweather - 02:08pm Apr 3, 2002 PST (#136 of 140) On the table - La Bataille de Quatre Bras et Ligny, Charlie's Year and Hegemon. PBeM-ing For the People. Hope I still catch you online - So the Flanders units should be 132 infantry and 22 horse (and so also what is listed for Ireland)...? Do I pick which units start there (up to the limits in the boxes) and am allowed to muster the rest? Please double check what is in London as well when you get a chance to glance at the rules... Adam Adam Starkweather - 03:35pm Apr 3, 2002 PST (#137 of 140) On the table - La Bataille de Quatre Bras et Ligny, Charlie's Year and Hegemon. PBeM-ing For the People. Another setup Q: Lord Home is to stack with militia other than Argyll - are the BW detachments considered militia? With whom may Lord Home stack? May he stack with the Argyll militia or does the setup restriction mentioned in the rules mean that he can't (i.e., is it a choice or not)? Thanks, Adam ian weir - 07:14pm Apr 3, 2002 PST (#138 of 140) Adam. Re your last, in the OB boxes you don't get to pick the units ­ use the ones labelled for that theater, but you can pick their strength. Regulars can't be recruited during play, but you can augment their strength see Vol 2 rule 16.0 & rule 3.4. Also, Home begins stacked with Militia because that's where he starts, period. Ditto all other leaders. He's not restricted in any way beyond the normal rules - see Vol 2, rule 7.0. BW units are Highlander class (Government side) - see Vol 2, rule 3.0. Re your earlier, see the bottom of p31 Vol 3 for London (the reference to the Foot implies those Regulars marked "E" that remain after you've set up the rest of the forces). Clarification: the units referred to are Regulars only. Militia/Volunteers are recruited during play unless beginning on map. Exception: see p31 right hand column Nobles Rgts - you'll find the 9 & 10 Horse which deploy as per the Nobles Rgts rules rather than the usual methods. Adam Starkweather - 01:01pm Apr 4, 2002 PST (#139 of 140) On the table - La Bataille de Quatre Bras et Ligny, Charlie's Year and Hegemon. PBeM-ing For the People. Sorry Ian - I just want to make sure I have it correct - In London - 32nd, 29th, 24th, 61st, 41st, 30th foot - all reduced and at -2 coys. Horse units - 8th Dragoons, Kingston's, 2 Horse (all reduced). I think that the following units should not be labeled "E" but rather "En" at least in the case of the 9th Montague (should be a volunteer Regiment that starts in Northhampton) and the 10th Yk Royal Hunters (which should be the 10th Duke of Kingston's Light Horse which should be a volunteer that starts in Liverpool - BTW, if I roll a 7 or better upon deployment what strength would this have?) The other "V" unit - the Durham As. Horse ( also marked "E" and not "En") - is available for muster. Is this correct? Lord Home - starts with any scots militia other than Arygll militia according to setup instructions. Problem is I don't see any other Scot militia except the Argyll units. What units may Lord Home setup with? Off map boxes - taking the smaller example of Ireland for concept reasons. The box says 12 coys of foot and 12 coys of horse. If I total up all the "I" units, I get 21 coys of foot units at full strength and 13 coys of horse. To set these guys up, I must reduce the company strengths of these "I" units so that they match the box allowance. Correct? In Flanders, if I have the concept correct from the Ireland example above, I take all the "F" units (less those that go in the Dutch, Hessian or Hannoverian boxes) and reduce their strengths till I get to the 132 coys of foot and 22 coys of horse indictated in the box? Speaking of the Dutch box, in the Dutch box it lists that starting there are "5 regiments of foot (4x14 coys, 1x4 coys, 1 troop of horse, 12 battalions bd" sic - no ending parenthesis - I do not understand what the comments in the box mean, BTW). Marked with the flower indictating Dutch troops from the "F" bunch we have - 1 regiment (4 coys), 9 battalions (full strength 54 coys) and 1 horse (1 coys) - total strength 58 foot and 1 horse). How does this relate to the note in the box? What starts there? Lastly, minor setup errata. In the county regiment setup it says that Northhampton in on the SW map - it is on the SE map. Adam ian weir - 06:20pm Apr 4, 2002 PST (#140 of 140) Adam. Thanks for the errata. The most important one is the Dutch notation. Those are based on my original OB. Ignore the notation and just place all the Dutch units there at full strength. Re the OB boxes, you've got it. Re the setup, if those are the units without another listing, you've got it, otherwise place as stated. Re Home: I failed to clarify properly. He does not set up on the map, he stacks with any such militia you recruit. (I know it's confusing because all the leaders are listed together. If a leader can be placed at start, he is, otherwise he comes in with "his guys"). Kingston's is the 15th Dragoons (later Hussars), YRH is the 10th Nobles regiment of Horse. See the counters and the OB listings (p.46) with note xliv. Kingston's is a Volunteer & therefore is mustered, not placed at start. Point taken re the theater notation. Re Bristol & Liverpool this refers only to the such named units & 7+ = full strength instead of reduced.