Contents PART ONE THE RULES 1. Turn Sequence, Cards and Dice .................................................................6 1.1. The Cards....................................................................................... 6 1.1.1. Compulsory & Optional Cards ......................................................... 6 1.1.2. National Characteristic Cards ......................................................... 9 1.1.3. Assembling the Game Deck...........................................................11 1.1.4. Making the Cards .......................................................................11 1.2. A Word on Dice ...............................................................................11 2. Blinds ............................................................................................... 12 2.1. What Can Blinds Do? .........................................................................12 2.2. The Fog of War ...............................................................................13 2.3. Hidden Units ..................................................................................13 2.4. Orders..........................................................................................14 3. Initiative and Big Men ........................................................................... 15 3.1. Unit Initiative Dice...........................................................................15 3.1.1. Effects of Combat......................................................................15 3.1.2. Using Reserved Dice ...................................................................15 3.2. Big Men and Tactical Initiative.............................................................15 3.2.1. How Does A Big Man Get Tactical Initiative?.......................................15 3.2.2. What Can a Big Man Do With His Tactical Initiative? .............................16 3.2.3. What is a Big Man Bonus? .............................................................16 3.2.4. What Defines Whether a Unit is “Engaged” or not? ..............................17 3.2.5. How Many Men Can My Big Man Influence? .........................................17 3.2.6. Can He Influence a Blind that He is Operating On? ...............................17 3.2.7. Can He Move on a Squad/Section Card? ............................................17 3.2.8. Can he Rally Units?.....................................................................17 3.2.9. Can He Combine Units?................................................................17 3.2.10. What's His Command Radius?......................................................18 3.2.11. Is He Part of the Fire Teams?......................................................18 3.2.12. What Happens if a Big Man Dies? .................................................18 4. Spotting ............................................................................................ 19 4.1. Automatic Spotting ..........................................................................20 4.2. Unspotted Troops Wishing to Fire .........................................................20 5. Movement.......................................................................................... 21 5.1. Blinds Movement .............................................................................21 5.2. Infantry movement...........................................................................21 5.2.1. On Table Movement....................................................................21 5.2.2. Taking Cover ............................................................................21 5.2.3. Effects of Wounds on Movement.....................................................21 5.2.4. Terrain Effects on Infantry Movement ..............................................22 5.2.5. River Crossings..........................................................................22 5.2.6. Enhanced Movement...................................................................22 5.2.7. Digging In ................................................................................23 5.3. Support Weapons Movement ...............................................................23 5.4. Vehicle Movement............................................................................23 5.4.1. Boggy Terrain ...........................................................................23 5.4.2. Vehicle Spacing.........................................................................23 5.4.3. Debussing, Limbering & Unlimbering ...............................................24 5.4.4. Prolonging Artillery ....................................................................24 5.5. Group Moves ..................................................................................24 5.6. Aircraft.........................................................................................24 6. Fire Against Infantry............................................................................. 25 6.1. Small Arms ....................................................................................25 6.1.1. Firing With Fire Teams ................................................................25 6.1.2. Pinning Fire .............................................................................28 6.1.3. Weapon Jams ...........................................................................28 6.1.4. Grenades ................................................................................28 6.1.5. Rifle Grenades ..........................................................................29 6.2. Machine Guns .................................................................................30 6.2.1. Tripod Mounted MMGs, HMGs and Auto-Cannon...................................30 6.2.2. Fire Lanes ...............................................................................30 6.2.3. Aggressive Targeting...................................................................30 6.2.4. Closed Armour MGs ....................................................................30 6.2.5. Multiple Barrelled MGs & AutoCannon ..............................................30 6.3. Flamethrowers................................................................................31 6.4. Snipers .........................................................................................31 6.5. Sentries & Outposts..........................................................................32 6.5.1. Scouts ....................................................................................33 7. Fire Effect ......................................................................................... 34 7.1. Casualties......................................................................................34 7.2. Casualty table ................................................................................34 7.2.1. Near Miss ................................................................................34 7.2.2. Wounds ..................................................................................34 7.2.3. Dead......................................................................................34 7.2.4. Hits on Big Men .........................................................................34 7.3. Multiple Unit Targets ........................................................................35 7.4. Removal of Wounds, Recovery of Cohesion ..............................................35 7.5. Morale..........................................................................................35 8. Indirect Support Fire ............................................................................ 36 8.1. Getting Indirect Fire.........................................................................36 8.1.1. Firing Procedure........................................................................36 8.2. Weapon Kill Zones ...........................................................................37 8.3. Artillery and Mortar Fire Effect............................................................37 8.4. FOs..............................................................................................38 8.5. Barrages & Adjusting Fire...................................................................38 8.6. Ammunition Restrictions ....................................................................39 8.7. Deploying Smoke .............................................................................39 9. Direct Fire Artillery Support and AFV’s firing HE.......................................... 40 9.1. Firing Method .................................................................................40 9.1.1. Hitting the Target......................................................................40 9.2. Direct Fire Against Buildings ...............................................................41 10. Fire Against Vehicles ............................................................................ 42 10.1. Initiating fire and calculating hits ......................................................42 10.1.1. Target Acquisition...................................................................42 10.1.2. Ranges ................................................................................42 10.1.3. Hitting the Target...................................................................42 10.2. Calculating Damage.......................................................................44 10.2.1. Penetration ..........................................................................44