DIY guidelines

These guidelines are newly created and will be used for a series of videos. I will update it as playtesting necessitates.

1) Pick a map.

2) Pick the defenders LoC (must be a major road leading off an edge).

3) Pick two enemy armies, the larger number of blocks is the attacking army.

The defender may set up anywhere beyond one mounted move of the enemy’s edge.

The defender must prevent the attacker from being within command range of their LoC at the end of the day.

Either side may withhold any number of Corps (or individual dragoons) to enter on later turns (specify Corps and turn) as reinforcements. On the appropriate turn the chit is added to the cup. The enters on a road either on its own edge (E), or one of the side edges (S). The first reinforcement drawn from the cup enters by road along which ever edge was specified. Once a Corps enters on a side, that side becomes the edge that all friendly S Corps enter on, and any subsequent Enemy Commands  with an S must enter on the opposite edge. A side without a road may not be selected. If no eligible side remains, the reinforcement must use its E side. 

Variation: Meeting engagement. Both Armies armies enter on their home edge along one road on turn one in column, unless specified to enter later as a reinforcement.

Variation: Fog can be determined to reduce visibility to 1/3 foot move. If you want to use fog, roll a die each turn before the chit draw. If you roll the less than the turn number the fog clears. If a 5 or 6 is rolled on turn 1, there is no fog.

Note that this could create a very different Gettysburg, even if the historical Armies and home edges were used. Brandywine could find Washington on the Pratzen!

War Campaign: Play the same armies, keep track of victories. Play 5 battles. After the first battle, the winner of the previous battle is the attacker. If the defender is a larger army by number of non HQ and detachment blocks, it must remove complete HQs until it has the smaller force.

Even if you own just one scenario and map, this should provide numerous variations.

Let me know what you think, or if you think I have missed something!