Variation for c&c napoleonics

Purpose: fighting a battle with balanced armies, with the possibility of small adjustments according to each player’s preference.

1) Agressionscale

- both players roll one dice. The symbol is checked in the table below. The outcome determines the agressionscale and the armycomposition (see armytables point 7).
- the player with the higher score (5 is the highest) becomes the attacker.
- In case of an equal score both players have the same agressionscale and armycomposition. To determine the attacker both players roll an extra dice. This is repeated till one player has a higher score, and is named the attacker.

Symbol		Agressionscale
artillery		1
flag		2
infantry		3
cavalry		4
sabre		5

2) Map

- to determine the map the defender rolls a dice. He places tiles according to the table below.
- the place of the tiles is totally to the opinion of the defender. He has to defend this map.
- if both players have an equal aggressionscale, the tiles have to be placed on the middle 3 rows of the board. (a river in the map fields is still placed across the short site of the board).

Symbol		Map	Tiles and placing
artillery		river	1 river (non-fordable) over the entire length of the board, at least 3 hexes from each players (long) side with 2 bridges and 1 ford (1 per section)
flag		town	1 town of 4 linked tiles 2 forests of 1 tile
infantry		forest	2 forests of 4 linked tiles 4 forests of 1 tile
cavalry		hills	2 hills of 3 linked tiles 2 rugged terrains of 2 linked tiles (no movement or placing)
sabre		fields	1 fordable river over the middle section (splits the map in two) 2 town’s of 1 tile 1 windmill en 1 sand quarry 6 tiles at the defenders wish, placed loose (forrest /hill/ rugged terrain)

3) Setup side

- when the terrain is finished the attacker (see 1) rolls a dice.
- if the symbol is infantry he may choose his side of the map.
- in case of any other symbol the defender takes his favourite side.

4) Setting up the armies

- the units are placed on the 1st or 2nd row of the board.
- light troops maybe setup on the 3rd row.
- leaders must be placed alone.
- if necessary counters or extra tiles maybe placed free at will anywhere on the map.
- the defender sets up his army first, then the attacker follows.
- finally the defender may exchange the place of some of his units (1 change per 4 setup units). The chosen units are not changed; only the original setup hexes are exchanged between the 2 units.

5) Sequence of battle

- if both army’s are set up the attacker starts the battle by playing his First card.
- the battle is played as normal by each player successively playing a card.
- when the Élan-card is played the deck and discard-pile are reshuffled. The Élan-card is kept out of the new deck.
- When the deck is finished the game ends.

6) Victory

- the first player scoring 6 points wins.
- points are scored by destructing an enemy unit (troops or leader).
- if no player scores 6 points before the end of the game (carddeck runs out), the total score is determined by adding the points for controlled victory-counters to the number of destroyed enemy units. The player with the higher score wins.
- in case of a tie the defender wins.

7) Armycompositions

- each army consist of a given number of cards, units, leaders, tiles and counters
- the tiles (forest/hill/town) and counters are set up at the same time as the units
- a counter is gives one point if the hex containing the counter is controlled by a unit at the end of the game
- each army has 4 points to buy extras or upgrade the units
- the costs of extra units are shown in the purchaseprice-table
- its possible to upgrade a unit by paying the difference in the purchaseprice. The unit is exchanged (example: 1 line infantry of 2punt is exchanged to a light infantry at the cost of 1 extra point)
- the maximum units a player can set up is 12. Leaders don’t count in this number.

Purchaseprices per Nation

- the British and Portuguese troops can be combined in 1 army.
- the units follow the same rules as in the base-game.

Optional:

- this table shows the purchaseprices used for a universal army, so both players can play with equal units.
- unique units are kept out of this game (young guard/ rifles/ cuirassiers)
- British and Portuguese blocks are combined

- 1) nf = no fire
- 2) fire after move is half of the blocks rounded up

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