Military Units

Military Units

While there are many logistical and strategic factors to account for in the running of a military campaign, the tactical portion of a battle is every bit as important.  The tactical capabilities of an army come down to its Units, the specific roles of its soldiers and what they can accomplish on a battlefield.  A Unit represents a group of around one hundred men or, in the case of cavalry, around fifty horses and fifty men.
 
A Unit has 3 primary characteristics:  Strength, Fortitude, and Speed, as well as further characteristics described with Unit Traits.
 

Strength

A Units offensive power and capacity to outmatch enemy soldiers.  A Unit deals its Strength in damage to the enemy Fortitude every Round.

Fortitude

A combination of a unit’s defensive cohesion and its morale, Fortitude is the amount of punishment the Unit can take before they break and fall back.

Speed

Each Speed generates a point of Movement that the Force can use to travel the Campaign Map.  The Force gains Movement equal to it’s slowest Unit. 

Unit Traits

Unit Traits represent the specific tactical advantages that make Units unique.  Every kind of Unit has some Unit Traits that define its usefulness on the battlefield.  If a Unit has the same Unit Trait multiple times, its effects combine.

Armor

These Units will ignore the first point of damage from each attack made against it every Round.
 

Battle Experience

A Trait that is tracked to determine if a unit is Green, Veteran, or somewhere in between.  An additional Military Training may be applied to a unit to give it one Battle Experience for each.

Black Powder

These Units will cause two extra damage each round to the Fortitude of its target, as well as 1 damage to friendly units nearby, unless that unit also has the Black Powder Trait.

Driving

These Units will discount an Armor Trait of the enemy Unit they are attacking.

Flanking

If undefended against, this will attack the nearest enemy Unit, starting with the Back Row.  Units that have attacked by a Flanker cannot be attacked again this way this Round.  Instead, additional Flankers will attack the next viable target in the Back Row.  If all Back Row targets have been attacked this way, the additional Flankers target the closest Front Row Unit.

Fortification

These Units do not count for the sake of Victory or Defeat, do not slide when other Units fall back, and are unaffected by circumstantial bonuses or penalties such as weather, terrain or Chaos of Battle. They are present on the defenders side of any Battle.

Ghost

These Units immediately safely escape the battle if they are Fleeing.  Units that are Destroyed without Fleeing gain no benefit from Ghost.

Green

Troops with no Battle Experience have this Trait.  These Units lower maximum Strength and Fortitude by one.  This is lost after gaining Battle Experience.

Intimidating

These Units, in addition to their normal attack, will also deal one damage to the enemy Unit’s Fortitude .  This damage bypasses Armor.

Lock-Up

If these Units do damage during their normal attack, they will lower the Strength of the enemy Unit they are attacking by one; this is cumulative with further attacks.

Opportunist
A Unit with this trait will ignore its ordinary target if its favored target is available, and attack that instead.  This trait comes in 3 forms:

    • Back Row
    • Specialists
    • Fleeing Units

The new target must be within 3 Vertical or Horizontal range of the Unit with this trait.

Rally

After their normal attack, these Units will restore one point of Fortitude to the allied Unit missing the most.  If there is a tie for the most missing it will be given to the nearest one of them.  Rally can restore Fortitude to Fleeing Units.

Siege

This Unit targets Fortification Units first if Ranged, as well as gaining double Strength after Terrain and Weather modifiers when attacking Walls.

Ranged

These units will direct their attack at the enemy Unit with the lowest Fortitude within 2 Vertical or any Horizontal Range of them.  If there is a tie for lowest, then it’ll be the nearest enemy Unit among them.  If there are no healthy enemies, they will target Fleeing units.  
Additional Ranged traits increase Vertical Range by 2.

Specialist

This Unit is a small team of only a few individuals.  Owing to their small size, their Strength and Fortitude cannot exceed 1, however, their expertise provides a special effect.  Specialists do not require Rations, and are immune to Despair, Fatigue, and Out-of Supply, but will still disband if their Force is annihilated or the rest of its Units disband from such effects.  

Stalwart

After their normal attack, these Units will restore one point of missing Fortitude to themselves.

Veteran

These Units will strike first in Conflict instead of simultaneously each round.  This Trait is earned after earning 5 Battle Experience.

Well-Armed

These Units gain an additional point of Strength.  This Trait is earned by sending an additional Military Weaponry, Bows, or Firearms Supply (as appropriate to the type) to the Unit.

Well-Armored

These Units gain 2 additional points of Fortitude.  This Trait is earned by sending an additional Military Armor Supply to the Unit.

Mounted

The Force gains the Fast condition if every unit in the Force is Mounted.

General Units

 These Units are available to all Commanders capable of Levying Forces.  
 

Spearmen

(Infantry, Light)
Cost: None
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 4  Speed: 4 
Traits: Lock-Up

Archers

(Infantry, Light)
Cost: Military Bows
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 3  Speed: 4
Traits: Ranged

Skirmishers

(Infantry, Light)
Cost: Training 
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 2  Speed: 4 
Traits: Ghost

Armsmen
(Infantry, Heavy)

Cost: Military Armor, Military Weaponry
Strength: 2  Fortitude: 5  Speed: 3 
Traits: Armor, Driving

Dragoons

(Cavalry, Light)
Cost: Mounts
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 4  Speed: 4  
Traits: Mounted, Flanking

Shock Cavalry

(Cavalry, Heavy)
Cost: Mounts, Military Armor, Military Weaponry
Strength: 2  Fortitude: 5  Speed: 3  
Traits: Mounted, Flanking, Armor, Driving 

Palisade

Cost: Special
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 4  Speed: 0  
Traits: Armor, Fortification

Wall

Cost: Special
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 7  Speed: 0  
Traits: Armor, Fortification

Military Heritage

Each Culture has it’s own way of fighting and training it’s Units, this is called Military Heritage.  All Units in your Army gain the Cultural Identity based on the Culture they were levied from, Levying as Rogalian Archers, Gothic Spearmen, etc.  In addition to this, Commanders may Levy a specific military unit from the lands of each culture.

Gothic

Gothic soldiers rapidly set up Fortifications when they make camp, and always behave as if they have one Palisade per Front Line Infantry when under attack.

Rogalian

Rogalian Units are levied already seasoned with 3 Battle Experience.
 

Dunnick

Dunnick Infantry Units gain +1 Speed and all Light Infantry Units gain an additional 1 Strength.
 

Hestralian

Hot-blooded Hestralian Units gain an +1 Strength when Attacking. 

Njordic

Njordic Units ignore the effects of Winter Snows including being able to traverse Mountains safely. All Njord Heavy Infantry Units gain Stalwart. 

Capacian

Capacian Cavalry Units gain +1 Speed and all Capacian Units ignore the effects of Spring Rains, and the collateral damage of the Black Powder trait.

Shariqyn

Shariqyn are used to long treks and desert heat – their Forces are always Fast, and are immune to Summer Heat. 

Cultural Units

These Cultural Units are an extension of the Military Heritage of each culture, and can be levied from Cities that belong to that Culture by paying the listed cost.  The Pontifical state of the Gottreich, controlled directly by Holy Lethia, counts as a separate territory to Gotha.

Flamberges

(Infantry, Heavy)
Cost: Levy (Gotha) Military Weaponry x 2
Strength: 3  Fortitude: 4  Speed: 4  
Traits: Lock-up, Driving

Zealot

(Infantry, Light)
Cost: Levy (Gottreich), Training x 2
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 4  Speed: 4  
Traits: Rally, Intimidating

Cuiriasser

(Cavalry, Light)
Cost: Levy (Capacionne), Mounts, Military Firearms
Strength: 2 Fortitude: 3  Speed: 7 
Traits: Flanking, Blackpowder, Mounted

Marines

(Infantry, Heavy)
Cost: Levy (Hestralia), Military Weaponry, Training
Strength: 2  Fortitude: 4  Speed: 4  
Traits: Flanking, Driving

 

Longbowmen

(Infantry, Light)
Cost: Levy (Rogalia), Military Bows x 2
Strength: 3  Fortitude: 3  Speed: 4  
Traits: Ranged, Driving

 

Fedayeen

(Infantry, Light)
Cost: Levy (Sha’ra),  Training x 2
Strength: 2  Fortitude: 3  Speed: 4  
Traits: Ghost, Intimidating

Tacksmen

(Infantry, Heavy)
Cost: Levy (Dunland),  Military Armor, Training
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 5  Speed: 4
Traits: Stalwart, Intimidating

Væringjar 

(Infantry, Heavy)
Cost: Levy (Njordr),  Military Armor, Training
Strength: 1  Fortitude: 5  Speed: 4  
Traits: Armor, Intimidating