A couple of questions about Polemos Ruse de Guerre (they are also on the Yahoo! group along with the latest battle report).

1 - Can the non-tempo player move bases contacted by the tempo player's bases during the non-tempo player's movement phase?

2 - Is the overall number of Tempo Points re-calculated as forces become broken during a game?  If so, is it done individually for each side or do both sides continue to use the highest total?

Hello Whirlwind!

1 - No. Both forces are locked in Close Combat once a contact (attack) has been made. All bases in both forces, even those not in contact are not allowed any further movement (unless forced to) until the next turn.

2 - No. Tempo Points are never re-calculated once the game starts. The C-in-c's Tempo Points per side (individually) are, however, reduced by 1 for every force that is broken, page 21 Force Cohesion.

Hope this clears things up, if not just ask!

Best regards,

Glenn

Okay Glenn, that's great, very clear.

Welcome back to the blogosphere Whilrwind! Really enjoying your posts.

Thanks Sean, much appreciated.  More soon, hopefully!  Your Germans and Confederates are looking good...

I'm new to RdG (and most Polemos) and had a few questions along similar lines:

1.) "1 - No. Both forces are locked in Close Combat once a contact (attack) has been made. All bases in both forces, even those not in contact are not allowed any further movement (unless forced to) until the next turn."  Does this mean that even a seperate group of bases from the same force cannot move?  

2.)  One base of a force has recoiled out of combat.  Other bases remain in contact for various reasons.  On the next turn the player pays 3 TP to initiate combat.  Can the player also pay the 2 TPs to reorganize his force and bring the recoiled base back into contact/combat?

A question on the practicalities of play:

• In Ranged Combat modifiers there is a +1 for infantry first shot at close range.
• In Close Combat modifiers there is a +1 for Elan (not fired or fought before, although it is possible to regain)

How do you record this in your games?  Do you have a counter for first shot and Elan for every unit on the field or it there some other “trick” you use?

Hello Juvat06!

I appolgize for my late response as I somehow didn't see your posting until today.

!) No, all seperated forces not in combat are free to move. Any base within a group in combat locks down all base movement within its attached group. See page 18, Close Combat.

2) No, see page 16, Redeployment. When redeploying no other movement is allowed.

Is that clear? If not let me know. 

Best regards,

Glenn

Hello Eddie!

We simply put a puff of smoke (cotton) at the front of any base that has fired it's first shot or fought it's first combat. So infantry, cavalry, to reflect first shot/combat and artillery to show the artillery can't move and to remind players that the gun has fired as sometimes people forget and want to fire it a second time. So basically hidden or blend in markers that observers don't know. We try to keep as many ugly labels or markers off the table that we can.

Should the infantry or cavalry regain Elan/First Shot the cotton is removed. All cotton is removed from the artillery at the start of each turn. 

We also use Baccus casualty markers as shaken markers.

Not clear or have another question, please ask.

Best regards,

Glenn 

I do not have these rules yet.  I have almost all the others though.  So we can use these rules for the Syw is that correct?   Is there any modifications that need to be done?  Do they cover all the troop types like Heavy Cavalry or do the scale of the rules just have Cavalry?

Waiting on the SYW rules but anxious to get my minis on the table for a big battle thanks very much.