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Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:34 am
by viccina
I just want to walk this through to make sure I have this correctly.
I have 1 Commander and 3 Brigadiers who are are commanding 8 units a piece for a total of 24 units.
The Commander (who is competent) rolls his 10d and gets a 5. The commander now gets to hand out 12 order markers, correct so far?

The 3 Brigadiers now have (for the sake of making it easy) 4 orders each and they place those behind each unit. Correct?

Now how would a brigade order work? I could have sworn I read somewhere in the rules that you could order everyone to do the same thing like Defend but you had to have enough order chits for each unit. Am I correct in this?

Thanks for answering the dumb questions. I'm getting ready to run my first game this coming Saturday.

Victor

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:19 pm
by obriendavid
There are no brigade orders in BLB, perhaps you are thinking of Republic to Empire or you could be thinking about our relight we did of Augrim a few years back?

I suggested in that game that we just counted up the number of brigades and then dice to see what percentage of brigades we could activate. This was only done because of the size of the game with about 150+ units per side, it would have taken too long to keep counting units each move.

Dave

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:52 pm
by viccina
No I've never read Republic to Empire and I don't know what refight you are talking about.

The question still stands do I have the above sequence correct for the order procedure.

Also it appears there are Brigade orders page 21 states
"If a whole Brigade is being asked to perform the same order then one marker can be placed for the entire formation." It goes on to say that you need to have enough "Order Allowance" to move all of the Sub units. So my question is this what's the point? Other than to save time or does this rule fall under the heading of "Rally Back (Horse)" which is the paragraph above it and only applies to that?

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:56 pm
by obriendavid
The point you mention is just to cut down how many order markers you need especially if you are playing a very big game.

Dave

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:15 pm
by Dfogleman2
In other words, if you have a brigade of four units and you want them all to start moving, you will need expend four orders, but only need to put down one order chit.

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:48 pm
by viccina
Thanks.

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:53 pm
by barr7430
Absolutely correct thanks Dan and Dave you beat me to the punch!

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:24 pm
by viccina
Another question.

What's the difference between "To initiate a charge or assault" and "To charge home" on the morale check table? Where do I find it in the rules?

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:16 pm
by obriendavid
viccina wrote:Another question.

What's the difference between "To initiate a charge or assault" and "To charge home" on the morale check table? Where do I find it in the rules?
I don't have the rules to hand at the mo but basically you test morale to charge, if you pass and charge your opponent they might have an opportunity to shoot you, if they cause any casualties on your unit then it has to test again to see if it charges home. If the enemy cause no casualties then you don't need to test to charge home you just move your troops into contact.

Dave

Re: Quick Question on Orders

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:47 am
by viccina
Thanks!