Napoleon at Waterloo
Napoleon at Waterloo Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- The Map
- The Playing Pieces
- Turns of Play
- Setting Up the Game
- Movement
- Zones of Control
- Combat
- Artillery
- How the Game is Won: Demoralization and the Conditions of Victory
- Allied Demoralization
- Examples of Attacks
- Combat Resolution Table
- Retreat and Advance as a Result of Combat
- Terrain Effects Chart
- Game Track Displays
The Map
General Description
The map depicts that area of Belgium in which the Battle of Waterloo was fought. The hexagonal grid superimposed upon the map is used to determine movement and exact positioning of the playing pieces. Movement and Combat are affected by the terrain on the map as outlined in the Terrain Effects Chart. The individual hexagons on the map will hereafter be referred to as "hexes."
Cases:
(A.) There are three types of terrain features found on the map which have a bearing upon the play of the game: (1.) Wood-hexes (blocks movement of units) (2.) Town-hexes (amplifies the defensive strength of occupying units) (3.) Road-hexes (allows passage through otherwise impassable wood-hexes)
(B.) A given hex is considered to be a specific type of terrain if all or any part or it contains that terrain feature symbol.
(C.) The names of towns, and the other incidental terrain features other than those mentioned in Case A., have no effect upon the play of the game and are included only for historical "color."
The Playing Pieces
General Description
The square cardboard playing pieces in the game represent the actual military units present at the Battle of Waterloo. The numbers and symbols on the pieces represent the strength, movement-capability, and type of military unit simulated by that particular playing piece. Playing pieces will hereafter be refered to as "units" or "unit-counters."
Historical Unit Designation (the "2nd Division")
Type (Infantry) — Combat Strength: 6, Movement Allowance: 4 (example counter "6-4" with the Infantry symbol and unit designation "2")
Symbol Key: Infantry (a rectangle with a crossed/X pattern), Cavalry (a rectangle with a diagonal slash), Artillery (a rectangle with a dot)
Definition of Terms
Combat Strength: The relative strength of a unit with regard to attack and defense, expressed in terms of Strength Points.
Movement Allowance: The maximum number of hexes which a unit may be moved in a single turn, expressed in terms of Movement Points: one Movement Point is expended for each hex entered.
Cases:
(A.) There are three basic types of units in the game: 1. Infantry Divisions; 2. Cavalry Divisions; 3. Artillery Divisions
(B.) There are three major nationalities in the game as represented by the three different colors of unit counters: FRENCH: — the Blue counters (First Player's army) BRITISH: — the Red Counters and PRUSSIAN: — the Green counters (Second Player's army)
(C.) The unit designations shown on the counters are given for historical-background purposes only, and do not affect the play of the game.
Turns of Play
General Rule
The game is played in turns. Each complete Game-Turn represents one hour of elapsed time. The game is ten Game-Turns in length. Each Game-Turn consists of two Player-Turns: (1.) the French Player-Turn. (2.) the Allied Player-Turn. Each Player-Turn is divided into two separate phases: (1.) the Movement-Phase (2.) the Combat-Phase
Procedure
The sequence of play is as follows: Step 1. The French Movement Phase: French Player moves his units as desired. Step 2. The French Combat Phase: French Player executes any and all attacks against the Allied Player's units. Step 3. The Allied Movement Phase: Allied Player moves his units as desired. Step 4. The Allied Combat Phase: Allied Player executes any and all attacks against the French Player's units. Step 5. The Players indicate the passage of one complete Game-Turn on the Time Record.
Players repeat Steps 1 through 5 until one player wins or until the tenth turn is completed at which point the game is finished.
Cases:
(A.) No combat takes place during the Movement Phase of a Player-Turn. (B.) No movement takes place during the Combat Phase of a Player-Turn (except as directed by the Combat Resolution Table). (C.) No Allied movement or attacking takes place during the French Player-Turn and vice-versa.
Setting Up the Game
General Rule
Players set up their units on the map according to the positions indicated by the unit pictures printed in the hexagons. All indicated positions North of the Front Line are Allied units. All those South of the Front Line are French. The GREEN Allied unit counters represent the Prussians. Place the Prussian units on the East side.
Procedure
Players set up their units simultaneously. It is not imperative that the exact unit, with respect to historical-designation, be placed on its pictured position. The essential thing is that the exact unit, with respect to strength-numbers and type, be placed on the appropriate starting position.
The Prussian units enter the game (i.e. come on the map) at the beginning of the Allied Player's second turn.
Cases:
(A.) The placement of the units on their starting-position-hexes does NOT constitute a turn or any Phase of a turn. Once the units have been placed, the game begins with the French Player's first Movement Phase. (B.) The Prussians enter the game at the beginning of the Allied Player's second turn. They come on the map anywhere along the East edge. They may enter at as many different points as desired by the Allied Player. The act of placing a Prussian unit on the map extends one Movement Point. The Prussian units may move and fight on their turn of entry just like any other Allied unit. Prussian losses count as part of total Allied losses. The entry of the Prussian units may not be deliberately delayed, nor may they leave the map once they have been brought on.
Movement
General Rule
During the Movement Phase of his turn, a Player may move as many or as few of his units as he desires, moving them in any direction or combination of directions.
Procedure
Units are moved by counting each hex that the unit enters as the expenditure of one Movement Point out of that unit's total Movement (point) Allowance. For example, a unit with a Movement Allowance of FOUR, could move as much as four hexes in a single Movement Phase.
Cases:
(A.) No Enemy movement is allowed during Friendly movement.
(B.) No attacks, Enemy or Friendly, take place during the Movement Phase of a Player's turn.
(C.) Each hex moved into by a unit, costs that unit one Movement Point. Units may not exceed their total Movement Allowance in any given Player Turn.
(D.) Movement from hex-to-hex must be consecutive: that is to say, a unit may not skip hexes.
(E.) Units may move through hexes occupied by Friendly units. They may NOT move through or into hexes occupied by Enemy units.
(F.) Units may NOT finish their Movement Phase in the same hex as other units (Enemy or Friendly). In other words, Players may NOT place more than one unit in a given hex.
(G.) Units which enter the Zone of Control of an Enemy unit MUST STOP! They may NOT travel through an Enemy controlled hex nor may they leave an Enemy controlled hex once they enter it. Of course, once the Enemy unit(s) exerting the Zone of Control upon that hex is destroyed or retreated as a result of combat, the hex is no longer an "Enemy controlled hex" and the Friendly unit may leave.
(H.) Units beginning their Movement Phase in an Enemy Zone of Control MAY NOT MOVE AT ALL during that Movement Phase.
(I.) In any given turn a Player may choose to move NONE, SOME or ALL of his units (consistent with the rules regarding Zones of Control). Units may be moved LESS than their total Movement Allowance, but they may NEVER be moved MORE than their Movement Allowance in any one turn.
(J.) The only Woods-hexes which may be entered by any units, are those traversed by Roads. Such hexes may only be entered from the direction in which the road enters the Wood-hex: i.e. units must enter and exit Woods/Road-hexes by traveling along the road leading into and out of the Woods. Movement in non-road Woods hexes is not allowed.
(K.) Once a unit has been moved, and the Player's hand is taken from the piece, it may not be moved any further during that Player-Turn, not may it change its move without the consent of the opposing Player.
(L.) Movement Points are NOT transferable from unit to unit, nor may they be accumulated from turn to turn.
Zones of Control
General Rule
Every unit "controls" the six hexagons directly adjacent to the one it occupies, with respect to enemy movement and combat.
Cases:
(A.) All units exert a Zone of Control at all times, whether or not it is that Player's turn. (B.) Friendly units are not inhibited in any way by the Zones of Control of other Friendly units. (C.) Friendly units may enter the Zone of Control of Enemy units (i.e. they may move adjacent to Enemy units) but they may NOT move through an Enemy controlled hex. In other words, they must stop upon entering the first Enemy controlled hex that they encounter. (D.) Once in an Enemy controlled hex, a Friendly unit may NOT move out of that hex until the Enemy unit is either destroyed or retreated as a result of combat, or until the Friendly unit itself is forced to retreat as a result of combat. (E.) More than one unit may exert a Zone of Control over the same hex. (F.) The overlapping of Zones of Control between non-adjacent units of opposing armies has no effect upon those units; only when the units themselves are actually in each other's Zones of Control does the Zone of Control rule apply. (G.) Zones of Control affect adjacent opposing units mutually: That is to say, neither unit can leave the presence of the other until one of the units is destroyed or retreated as a result of combat.
Combat
General Rule
Combat is resolved by comparing the total combat strength of the attacking unit(s) to that of the adjacent defending unit(s). The comparison is stated as a probability ratio: Attacker's Combat Strength to Defender's Combat Strength. The ratio is simplified to conform to the odds given on the Combat Resolution Table (the ratio is always rounded off in favor of the defending unit(s) if it does not exactly conform to the ratios given in the table). A die is rolled (by the Attacking Player) and the result is read from the appropriate line of the table. The Attacking Player IMMEDIATELY takes the action indicated on the table before going on to resolve any other attacks he may be executing during that Combat Phase.
Example:
Two French Infantry units (with a combined strength of EIGHT Combat Strength Points) attack one Allied Cavalry unit (Combat Strength of THREE). The odds of the attack are EIGHT-to-THREE which are then simplified (and rounded off in favor of the defender) to an odds-situation of TWO-to-ONE. The French Player rolls the die and looks at the results given under the "TWO to ONE" column on the line indicated by the die-roll number. The result indicated takes effect IMMEDIATELY.
Cases:
(A.) To engage an Enemy unit in combat, the attacking unit(s) must be adjacent to that Enemy unit during the Combat Phase of the Attacking Player's turn. (Exception: see ARTILLERY RULE)
(B.) ALL Enemy units to which there are Friendly units adjacent MUST be attacked in the Combat Phase of those Friendly units. ALL Friendly units which are adjacent to Enemy units MUST participate in an attack during the Combat Phase of the Player's turn.
(C.) The Attacking Player has the choice of resolving his attacks in any order he wishes as long as ALL adjacent Enemy units are attacked. The Attacking Player may choose which attacking units will attack which defending units as long as ALL of his units which are adjacent to Enemy units participate in an attack.
(D.) No defending unit may be attacked more than once per turn, nor may any attacking unit attack more than once per turn.
(E.) More than one attacking unit may participate in an attack against a single defending unit (as long as all the attacking units are adjacent to the defender). The Combat Strengths of the attacking units are totaled into one combined Combat Strength and then compared to that of the defending unit in order to determine the odds.
(F.) A single attacking unit may make an attack against two or more defending units to which it is adjacent. The Combat Strengths of the defenders are totalled into one combined Strength to which the attacking unit compares its Strength to determine the odds.
(G.) Players may deliberately make attacks at poor odds in order that adjacent attacks against other defenders may be made at higher odds (by allotting most of the attacking force to the major objective). Such "suicidal" attacks are euphemistically called "diversionary attacks."
(H.) Whenever, as a direct result of combat, an Enemy unit is thrown back (retreated) or removed from play (eliminated) the victorious unit may advance into the hex formerly occupied by the defeated force. The option to advance is exercised IMMEDIATELY. The advance may be made even if the advancing unit is still in an Enemy unit's Zone of Control. Retreating and advancing due to combat is not considered as part of regular Movement and is not counted as an expenditure of Movement Points.
(I.) The Combat Strength of a unit must be used as an integral whole. That is, it may not be split in order to apply some Strength Points to one attack and some to another.
(J.) Units defending in Towns DOUBLE their strength (on defense). Example: A unit with a basic strength of FOUR Combat Points would defend (in a Town-hex) as if it had a strength of EIGHT Combat Points.
Artillery
General Rule
Unlike Infantry and Cavalry units, Artillery units may participate in attacks by bombarding the defending unit. Artillery bombards a unit from two hexes distance. Artillery units must participate in combat when adjacent to opposing units. In other words, artillery may participate in two types of attack, depending on their distance from the defending unit (adjacent or two hexes distant). Unlike other units, Artillery units are never destroyed or forced to retreat when bombarding a unit, although they are affected by all combat results when they are adjacent to the unit being attacked.
Procedure
Determine the odds of the attack in exactly the same fashion as any other attack. All results are applied in the same fashion, except that bombarding Artillery units (i.e., units firing from a range of two hexes) are not affected by combat results. Thus if an "Exchange" were the result in an attack by bombarding artillery, the defending unit would be eliminated, but the bombarding units would not be affected. Of course, other units cooperating with the bombarding Artillery units from an adjacent position (including adjacent artillery units) would be affected by combat results, and they would suffer the effects of an "Exchange" result.
Cases:
(A) Artillery units may attack Enemy units which are two hexes away, but they are never forced to attack an Enemy unit merely because it is within two hexes. Artillery units must participate in an attack if they are adjacent to an Enemy unit, although they would not necessarily have to attack the adjacent unit: some other Friendly unit could attack the adjacent Enemy unit, while the Artillery unit would be free to bombard another Enemy unit two hexes away. This might only be done if there were another Enemy unit within two hexes.
(B) Artillery units may attack alone, in concert with other Artillery units, or in concert with Infantry and/or Cavalry units. Artillery units may combine attacks from adjacent positions, and in the bombardment role of two hexes distant.
(C) When an attack fails, bombarding artillery (i.e., attacking from two hexes distant) suffer no ill effects: they are never destroyed or retreated as a result of their own failed attacks. Artillery units attacking from an adjacent position must suffer all the combat results of their attacks. Bombarding Artillery units may voluntarily elect to suffer an "Attacker Retreat" combat result. When cooperating with other, non-artillery units, these other units always suffer all combat results, no matter what the distance of the attacking artillery.
(D) Artillery units may only attack a single unit when bombarding; when attacking from an adjacent position, artillery units may attack as many units as they are adjacent to.
(E) When artillery units themselves are attacked, they suffer all combat results as do all other units. Artillery units may not use their two-hex range in a defensive situation.
(F) Artillery units may fire over other intervening units (Enemy or Friendly) and Town hexes in order to attack from two hexes distant. Artillery may not fire over Woods hexes to attack Enemy units two hexes away.
(G.) When a unit is destroyed or retreated by attacking artillery which is not adjacent to the defender, the attacking artillery may not advance.
How the Game is Won: Demoralization and the Conditions of Victory
General Rule
THE FRENCH PLAYER WINS if his army destroys forty Enemy Combat Strength Points and succeeds in exiting seven French units (of any type) off the North edge of the map on or before the tenth turn of the game. The forty Enemy strength points must be destroyed BEFORE the Enemy has destroyed forty French Strength Points.
THE ALLIED PLAYER WINS if his army destroys forty French Combat Strength Points BEFORE the enemy destroys forty Allied Strength Points.
THE GAME IS A DRAW if neither side destroys forty Enemy Strength Points or if the French manage to destroy forty Enemy Strength Points but fail to exit the required seven units off the map. A Draw can be considered something of a victory for the Allied Player, since in reality, Napoleon would have had to win the battle in order to have had any hope of future success.
Allied Demoralization
If the French Player destroys forty Enemy Combat Strength Points first, but has not yet exited seven units off the map, the game continues but the Allied units (including the Prussians) are considered to be DEMORALIZED. Demoralization takes effect immediately, even if the Demoralization point is reached in the middle of a Player-Turn. Once demoralized, the Allies remain so for the rest of the game. Once they have been demoralized, the best that the Allies can hope for is a Draw (by preventing the exit of some or all of the seven French units). The French army is never demoralized (for the point at which they would be demoralized, fulfills the Allied Victory Condition).
Procedure
Both Players should keep a running total of the Combat Strength Points lost by both sides. The French Player should not count exited units into his losses, and should keep exited units on display off the map.
Cases (for Demoralization & Conditions of Victory)
(A.) Whichever side achieves its Victory Conditions first, is declared the winner IMMEDIATELY and the game is ended.
(B.) The French units exiting in the North may do so only from the hexes marked with the arrows. The Act of exiting from the edge of the map expends one Movement Point. Exited units may not return to the game.
(C.) The exiting French units do not all have to exit in the same turn nor from the same exit-hex. They may exit before and/or after the French Player destroys forty Allied Combat Points. Allied units may never exit from the map, even to avoid being destroyed.
(D.) French units which are forced to retreat off the map due to Allied attacks, are not counted as exiting units even if they are forced off from "exit-hexes." They are counted as destroyed units instead, just as would Allied units in a similar case.
(E.) Effects of Allied Demoralization: When the Allies become Demoralized, their ability to attack and to defend is impaired in the following manner:
(1.) All Allied attacks are reduced by one odds-column. For example, an Allied attack at THREE to ONE odds is automatically devalued to TWO to ONE odds.
(2.) All French attacks are increased by one odds-column. For example, a French attack at THREE to ONE odds is automatically upgraded to FOUR to ONE odds.
The Allies suffer this impairment IMMEDIATELY upon becoming Demoralized. Demoralization effects continue until the end of the game. If the Allies, after having been Demoralized, should destroy forty French Combat points this achievement does not constitute an Allied victory nor does it Demoralize the French or in any way relieve the effects of Allied Demoralization. As has been pointed out in the General Rule, once the Allies have been Demoralized the best they can hope for is a Draw. The reasoning behind this seeming inequity is that the French Army would be so heartened by the defeat of the Allies that subsequent French losses would not demoralize them.
(F.) If, by some freak chance, BOTH Players should reach the forty-Strength Point loss-level at exactly the same moment (due to an "Exchange" result in combat) the French Player wins if he has already exited seven units off the North edge. If the French Player has NOT done so, then the Allied Player would be declared the winner.
Examples of Attacks
In the following examples, the Grey units are the Attackers and the untinted units are the Defenders. A circle is drawn around those units (Attacker and Defender) which are involved in combat with each other. Each circled Battle-situation constitutes an attack and would require the rolling of the die. Note than when several attacking and defending units are adjacent to each other the attacks may be constituted in more than one way. Artillery attacks are indicated with an arrow when the defending unit being bombarded is not directly adjacent. The odds of each attack are given next to each situation. Anything which can logically be inferred from these examples is tantamount to a rule unless it is explicitly covered in the written rules.
The illustrated Battle-situations include:
- An Artillery unit (Combat Strength 3) attacking an adjacent unit (Combat Strength 5): odds of 3 to 1, labeled "Artillery Attack."
- The same Artillery unit bombarding a unit two hexes distant (an arrow is drawn from the Artillery hex to the target hex): again 3 to 1, labeled "Artillery Attack."
- Two opposing 6-4 units facing each other across a Woods-hex (marked with dark Woods symbols): odds of 1 to 1 — Woods-hexes have no effect on combat odds.
- Two opposing 6-4 units where the defender occupies a Town-hex: odds of 1 to 2, captioned "Doubled due to Town-hex" — illustrating Combat Case (J), the Town-hex doubling the defender's strength.
- A lone 1-5 unit attacked at 2 to 1 odds.
- A 5-4 unit attacking two adjacent 4-4 units, each attack circled separately at 1 to 1 odds; and combinations of 4-5, 3-5, 6-4, and 7-4 units attacking together at 3 to 1 and 1 to 1 odds, and at 1 to 2 odds against a stronger combined defense — illustrating Combat Cases (E) and (F): combining several attackers against one defender, or a single attacker against several defenders, by totalling the relevant Combat Strengths.
- A 3-3 Artillery unit bombarding one of two adjacent 1-5 units at a range of one intervening hex (arrow drawn) at 4 to 1 odds, while the two 1-5 units are shown circled together.
- A 7-4 unit attacking a group of 4-4, 2-4 and 6-4 units at 2 to 1 odds.
- A long line of adjacent units (3-5, 4-3 Artillery, 1-5 on the front rank; 4-4, 4-4, 1-5, 2-4, 3-5, 4-4, 4-4 and 3-3, 1-5, 2-5, 7-4, 6-4, 2-5 behind) illustrating several simultaneous attacks at 2 to 1, 1 to 4, 3 to 1 ("Artillery Attack"), 1 to 2, 3 to 1, 1 to 1, and 1 to 2 odds along the front — repeated in a second, similar diagram with attacks at 1 to 1, 1 to 1, 4 to 1, 1 to 1, 1 to 1, and 2 to 1 odds.
- A single 1-5 unit attacking a group of three defending units (1-5, 3-5, 2-5) at 2 to 1 odds.
Combat Resolution Table
Determine the odds of each given attack as per the rules of combat. The die is rolled once (by the attacking Player) for each separate attack-situation and the results are applied immediately (before going on to resolve any other attacks which the Player may be making in that Combat Phase).
Each vertical column on the Combat Resolution Table gives the six possible outcomes of an attack being made at those odds. The numbers on the sides of the table correspond to the numbers on the die. By cross-referencing the die-number with the attacking odds, the attacking Player arrives at the result of a given attack.
Probability ratios (Odds): Attack Strength to Defense Strength
| Die | 1 to 5 | 1 to 4 | 1 to 3 | 1 to 2 | 1 to 1 | 2 to 1 | 3 to 1 | 4 to 1 | 5 to 1 | 6 to 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AE | Ar | Ar | Dr | Dr | Dr | DE | DE | DE | DE |
| 2 | AE | AE | Ar | Ar | Dr | Dr | Dr | DE | DE | DE |
| 3 | AE | AE | AE | Ar | Dr | Dr | Dr | Dr | DE | DE |
| 4 | AE | AE | AE | Ar | Ar | Dr | Dr | Dr | DE | DE |
| 5 | AE | AE | AE | Ar | Ar | EX | Dr | EX | EX | DE |
| 6 | AE | AE | AE | AE | Ar | Ar | EX | EX | EX | DE |
Attacks executed at worse than "1 to 5" are treated as "1 to 5"; attacks executed at greater than "6 to 1" are treated as "6 to 1".
Explanation of Results
AE — Attacker Eliminated: The attacking unit(s) is (are) eliminated (destroyed) and is(are) immediately removed from the map.
Ar — Attacker Retreats: The attacking unit(s) is(are) immediately moved back one hex.
EX — Exchange: The defending unit(s) is(are) eliminated and the attacking unit(s) suffer a loss AT LEAST equal (in terms of Strength Points) to that of the Defender. Only those attacking units directly involved in that particular attack may be used to make up this equal exchange of Strength Point losses. This will sometimes mean that the Attacker will be forced to lose more Combat Strength Points than the Defender. Both sides' losses are immediately removed from the map. A surviving attacking unit may then exercise the option to advance into the hex formerly occupied by the Defender.
Dr — Defender Retreats: The defending unit(s) is(are) immediately moved back one hex.
DE — Defender Eliminated: The defending unit(s) is(are) eliminated (destroyed) and is(are) immediately removed from the map.
Retreat and Advance as a Result of Combat
When units are forced to retreat, the victorious player decides in which direction they will be retreated, within the following restrictions:
Units may not retreat into Enemy Zones of Control, off the map, into non-Road Woods, or into Enemy-occupied hexes. If no path of retreat is open to the retreating unit (aside from the forbidden hexes described above) then the retreating unit is ELIMINATED and immediately removed from the map.
DISRUPTION: If the only "safe" hex available to the retreating unit is one which is already occupied by another, uninvolved Friendly unit, then the uninvolved unit is "disrupted" (pushed out of its hex) by the retreating unit. The uninvolved unit is moved back (by the victorious Player) as if it were retreating, and its position is taken by the retreating unit. The disrupted unit itself may not be forced into Enemy units or Zones of Control or woods. If this would be the only path of retreat available, then the uninvolved unit is NOT disrupted: It stays in its original position and the unit which was forced to retreat as a result of combat is ELIMINATED instead. Disrupted units can themselves disrupt other Friendly units in a sort of "chain-reaction" of disruption, if that is the only safe path of retreat open to them. Disrupted artillery units may NOT fire in the Combat Phase in which they were disrupted.
OPTIONAL ADVANCE: Whenever a hex is vacated as a result of combat, the victorious unit responsible for the Enemy elimination or retreat may advance into the vacated hex. This may be done even if the victorious unit is still in an Enemy Zone of Control and/or if the vacated hex is in an Enemy Zone of Control. The option to advance must be exercised immediately. A unit is never forced to advance. A unit may never advance more than one hex as a result of combat. Advances are not counted as regular Movement and therefore expend no Movement Points.
Advances are useful in cutting off the line of retreat of Enemy units whose combat has yet to be resolved. Advancing units may not participate in another attack or defense in the Combat Phase in which they advance, even if their advance places them next to Enemy units whose battles are yet to be resolved.
Terrain Effects Chart
| Type of Terrain | Effect on Movement | Effect on Combat |
|---|---|---|
| Clear Terrain & Clear Terrain/Roads | Costs units one Movement Point per hex. | No effect. |
| Towns & Woods/Roads | Costs units one Movement Point per hex. | Defending unit DOUBLES its Combat Strength. Combat Strength remains at normal value when units attack from such terrain. |
| Woods | Entry PROHIBITED. | Artillery may not fire over an intervening woods hex. |
A hex is considered to be Woods terrain if all or any part of it contains the symbol of that terrain.
Game Track Displays
Demoralization Scale: Use the first destroyed Enemy unit as a marker. Move the unit up the scale as losses are inflicted upon the Player to whom that unit belongs. The scale is numbered from 1 to 40, matching the forty Combat Strength Points that trigger demoralization and the victory conditions.
Time Record: Place the time-record marker to indicate the current Game-Turn. The track runs 1 pm, 2 pm (Prussians enter), 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm, 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm, 10 pm — one box per Game-Turn, ten Game-Turns in all.
Exited French Units: A holding box on the map where French units that have exited off the North edge are displayed, off the map, for the remainder of the game.