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5.4 Artillery
Artillery is a major support unit because of its importance in combat. It
exists in three forms: heavy, siege or coastal artillery. Artillery acts
principally as support and augments the value of the supported unit during
a battle.
The Different Artillery Types
There are 3 different types of artillery.
● Heavy Artillery: It supports units in combat, and has a munitions
“MUN” expenditure.
● Siege Artillery: It is used during sieges to bombard fortresses
(but can be used as regular heavy artillery in the field too).
● Coastal Artillery: It is assimilated into a siege artillery (although
weaker). It may fire against an adversary’s Fleets (passage through
a strait or during a landing). Coastal Artillery may be stationary
(placed at the beginning of the game, without movement possibility)
or mobile.
Artillery Use
The key use conditions are:
● Artillery support units are used both for combat and for fortress
sieges. Artillery may be placed with other units or in the HQ reserve
(or GHQ).
● Artillery may be used as “support” during a combat round. It adds its
support value to that of the “engaged” unit. Only 1 artillery may be
used in support per round; 2 in the case of the “major battle” (that is
to say one artillery per battle flank).
● Also, the same artillery may only provide support in one battle for
each Activation. It can, nonetheless, sometimes participate in a
second battle, in the case of a flank breakthrough.
● Each artillery uses 1 MUN per round of use.
● Certain artillery have an Army number. They may only act and lend
support to their assigned Army.
● Most other artillery, without an Army number, may be assigned to any
Army or placed in the GHQ Strategic reserve.
Siege Artillery
All types of Artillery units may be used during a siege to try to destroy a
fortress or to neutralize it temporarily. But siege artillery is specially made
for this task, especially because of a stronger firepower and intrinsically
higher chances of scoring favorable results on the besieged fortress. Note
that when bombarding fortresses, mobile coastal artillery may act as siege
artillery.
Fortress
A fortress may be used as “static” artillery. In all cases, it automatically fires
3 times for free (each battle, the shells are taken from the fortress depots).
5.5 Armies and Army HQ’s
Each major power has a General Headquarters (GHQ), led by a
Commander-in-Chief (e.g. Joffre for France in 1914), holding the strategic
reserve of the country.
Each major power has more than one army. These armies (and their
detachments), and not the individual corps they are made of, are the
sprites that are shown on the game map.
The basic army formation is the HQ (Headquarters), where the army
general is located, as well as the army reserves.
It is possible to have corps elsewhere, called Detachments (DET),
usually not far away from the HQ in order to be supplied and properly
commanded.
The HQ is often the main stack of the army, and it holds the army reserve
(to support battles or breakthroughs).
HQs may be led by a historical general, or they may have none (they have
their own standard values). Historical generals have abilities that affect the
HQ standard values and this may give an extra bonus or additional
penalties or constraints.
Each army stack (HQ or DET) holds the game’s units: army corps (combat
units used in battles) and support units (used as bonus to help the corps).
● A stack may hold up to 6 corps (max.) in most terrains, except in
mountains and deserts (4 corps).
● A stack may hold support units in addition, without limitation
● The HQ may also have in addition to its on-map stack some corps
in reserve (supposed to be in the rear). On average, each HQ
has 2 corps in reserve, but some historical generals may have
more (or less). Unlimited support units may be held in reserve.
Corps in reserve are used to intervene in battles, to intercept
(in movement warfare), or to effect breakthroughs after a victorious
battle.
The Army General
A historic general assigned to an HQ stays with the HQ and is moved with
it. He may change his assignment during each Interphase.
Nonetheless, HQs without historic generals do exist. In the event of
combat, an “unknown” general is picked at random and placed with the HQ
(until the end of the battle).
Army Content
An HQ may command units situated in its Range of Command (or in
reserve) up to a usual maximum limit of 7 corps and any number of
support units. However,
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