Do I understand it right, that all military units are now “generic”?
In the sense that everyone can, with training, produce units with combat
statistics exactly like those of other races or nations? So that while dwarf
units have toughness even as green units, it counts against their maximum
number of trainings and as veterans they could be identical (excepting their
magical resistance bonus) to an Anuirean veteran unit?
Or are the racial trainings (elven-scout, dwarven-toughness) in addition to
the limited number of training due to experience a unit can have? So that
elves and dwarfs always would have one training more than human units at
every level of experience?
Marine Training: “seasoned in ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore” combat.
Is somewhere explained what that means?
e.g. only Marines can fight on ships, all others are simply cargo?
only Marines can attack a coastal province from a ship, all others are at a
penalty if trying to invade from a ship or something like that?
p. 129 Naval Battle:
When ships are fighting I understand that they use their own combat
statistics, but when they carry troops, it becomes unclear:
e.g. 2 Galleons with 3 troops each
“These army units can make additional attacks to represent boarding actons.”
Do I understand that right, that we have not 6 (number of units on board)
but 8 units fighting which all can attack every other unit?
Could the 3 units from Galleon 1 attack Galleon 2 under the feet of the
other 3 units? Or have boarding units to be defeated before the vessel can
be attacked at all in a melee as in “if the defending vessel has no military
unit then the boarding unit my attack the vessel itself” And the ships
themselves - can they attack also only the crew in a melee or the other ship
while the crew is still fighting?
Do missile troops add to the missile rating of ships, or is the ship missile
rating more heavy (ballista, catapult) so that archers can´t add to that?
“army units on the vessel may attempt to board the enemy vessel” - attempt
meaning that they can fail? Is there a check to board, e.g. an empty vessel
like that for entering a fortress?
“A staggered Warship with an army aboard surrenders and is taken prize” - an
army aboard is an hostile army to that ship that before boarded that ship,
right? Or can enemy ships taken prize who still have an army unit on them?
p. 112 Damage:
Subdual damage: If a unit´s subdual damage exceeds its current hits, the
unit is destroyed.
Subdual damage is non-lethal according to the PHB. If a character is dealt
subdual damage exceeding his hit points he falls to the floor unconscious
and is helpless. Why should an army unit be destroyed/killed by experiencing
the same?
As I read the Damage section, in a battle, e.g. a noble knight unit will not
slay their enemy who is honour bound to fight against all odds, but tries to
subdue them. Shall they only succeed to take them captive if they first
stagger them with subdual attacks and then hope for them to fail a morale
roll? Or can they keep dealing subdual attacks, beating them to the ground
until they all are unconscious and helpless to be tied up and taken prisoner?
bye
Michael Romes
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