Wednesday, December 16, 2020

First Addenda - More To Follow as Questions Arise


The Kings have questions, and we've got answers.  The rules page has been updated to incorporate these clarifications:

  1. Couriers can travel by horse or by ship, and freely convert back and forth at any coastal town (not just at port towns). The assumption here is that couriers are resourceful individuals who usually pass for locals and are not above stealing a small fishing vessel if that's what it takes to get the message through. Couriers travelling by sea can freely pass through unoccupied sea lanes, but are captured when trying to slip through an enemy held sea lane in the same manner as horse-riding couriers.
  2. Heavy Foot is Heavy Infantry is Grenadiers. Those names are used interchangably.
  3. AP not spent must be banked at a player's controlled cities. If that city is lost to a siege, then those AP are captured and may be spent the following winter by the capturing player. If a city that holds AP is under siege during the winter months, those AP may only be spent to recruit forces in that city.
  4. Red lines on the map represent mountains and high ridges that are uncrossable.
  5. The ships on the sea lanes mark port cities.  Might have made more sense to use anchors as the symbol. There are a number of coastal cities that are not ports.  Nightmute is a coastal city, for example, but not a port city. A coastal city might be converted into a port, but that would require a full year of control and a pretty hefty AP cost.
AN ARMY WITHOUT A LEADER IS HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO THE ENEMY.  An army without an HQ will not move to contact an enemy force, but may be attacked.  An army that loses its last HQ will either hunker down and wait for orders or will march to the nearest Home City for safety.  Reinforcements can be ordered to join an army already in the field and do not require a general, but again bear in mind they are very vulnerable with at least one HQ in the detachment.

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