From: "John F. Kranz" Subject: The King's War (COA) errata The King's War The Counters: The Sherborne chit for the optional Ambuscade rules (see 10.9) was misprinted with a Fortress symbol. Sherborne is, of course, a Minor Fort and is printed correctly as such on the map. The chit is good for a Minor Fort Surrender. The noted Royalist leader, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, was misspelled on his counter (and occasionally elsewhere in the game) as "Lansdale". It should be "Langdale" throughout the game, both are the same person. The Parliamentary Leader Wark should have a Regional affiliation letter of "E" printed at the bottom of his counter. The Rules: Rule 1.17 (Clarification): This rule is correct as written. Covenanter Control of a box is shown by using the blue flag Control markers. Rule 11.1 stating that Covenanter Control is shown by the absence of a Control marker is wrong. Rule 1.31 (Reiteration) A stack may move and fight as many times as it has Moves for. A stack could move, follow-up an enemy stack Breaking Contact, fight a battle, then move to following the retreating enemy force and fight again, so long as it has Moves remaining. Rule 2.04 (Clarification): Leaders choose one Move Allowance rate for the turn, moving either with combat units (use their printed Move Allowance) or by themselves (10 moves). There is no "proration" of moves between moving with and without combat units in the same turn. Optional Rule 2.08 (Clarification): Leaders do not actually "recruit" regiments per se, what is meant is that with the Regional Leader rules in play, only certain Leaders can add regionally based regiments to their stack. Optional Rule 2.09 (Clarification): Leaders moving by themselves, or merely supervising sieges, still count as conducting operations for purposes of this rule. Basicallly, if the leader does anything during his portion of the turn, he accumulates a CO chit. Optional Rule 3.09 (Change): The second line of the 4th paragraph of this rule should read "...a Battle might arise (but not a Skirmish) OR change the control status..." Optional Rule 3.09 (Clarification) If a leader picks up addtional units along his move, the new stack expends addtional CPs only up to the limit listed for the new combined stack size. Rule 4.04 (Clarification) The moving player decides which of his regiments are being "led" first, before the non-moving player does so. Also a player is free to shuffle his leaders and units around, regardless of seniority, to produce the maximum combat effect so long as you aren't using the Regional Leader Rules. 5.11 (Clarification) The requirement to avoid retreating down the movement line the enemy force entered takes precedence over the requirement to retreat towards the nearest friendly controlled box. Rule 5.31 (Correction) The second paragraph of this rule (under the bullets) should start off reading "If less than 8 is rolled...." Rule 9.51 (Clarification): If the defender has an effective GV of "0" after all calculations, the attacker still must Assault and uses the "7-1 or greater odds" entry on the Assault Chart (+4). Note that any Minor Fort of Fortress you control is considered to possess a "garrsion", even if there are no additonal regiments in it. Of course it's pretty poorly defended in this state and can be easily taken, bu t the attacker still must besiege or assault it to do so. Rule 10.6 (Clarification): Cornish new and veteran regiments are augmented (doubled was a poor choice of word) to CVs of 8 and 10 respectively when in Cornwall. This is noted correctly at the bottom of the Loss Table 4.04. Rule 11.3 (Clarification): The "10" CV Irish regiment is not a mistake. The Royalist player may choose it freely or first if he likes in any scenario or campaign game calling for an Irish regiment. Note there are only six Irish regiments overall, if more are called for and none are available, then none are received. Irish regiments that are eliminated (either through battle or desertion) cannot be recruited, but may come back into play as reinforcements on the indicated turns). Irish regiments do not count towards the Recruit Chit draw on the turn they appear. Rule 12.0 (Addition): If neither side has won by Dec. 1646, call it a draw. Scenario 13.1 (Change): The initial set up has Parliament committing an illegal siege of Portsmouth with one too few regiments. Change the SV of Portsmouth to "2" to reflect the hasty fortification of the place at the start of the war. Portsmouth's SV is raised to "3" as soon as Parliament takes it or ends the siege. Also the set-up has 7 Royalist regiments starting at Shrewsbury, which technically can hold only 6. The Royalist player must designate which are inside and out the minor fort at the start. This is not considered a violation of Rule 3.06 at start Rule 14.01 (Corrections): Ballard should appear At Start and is Removed on March 1643. He is not replaced by Ruthin. Also add Bedford who appears At Start and is Removed in Nov. 1642. It's Bedford who is replaced by Ruthin. The Map: On the playing map, the two boxes making up the county of Chestershire (Chester and Nantwich) had their county designations mistakenly Americanized to "Chester". It should of course be "Cheshire" county. The unit counters and Recruitment Display are printed correctly with the "Cheshire" appellation and the town of Chester is really Chester. Perhaps it was a subconscious mistake due to Clash of Arms Games being located here in Chester County, PA. William Ballard's Holding Box should of course read "Thomas Ballard". The Charts: The second row in the Campaign Points Expenditure Chart has a misprint, it should read "5-7" for the Number of Regiments in the Stack, not "5-8". Thanks to Julian Barker, Paul Dangel, Monte Gray, Frank Hakstege, Chris Janiec, Marcus Mitchell, and David Nighswonger for spotting these items. The "Divine Errata" of Kings (clarifications as of Oct. 15th, 1996) ___________________________________________________________________ John Kranz kranz@earthlink.net Virtual Wargamer HQs (VWHQ): VWHQ & Web Grognard Discussion Board: ___________________________________________________________________