Rob Citino - 06:27am Mar 7, 2001 PST (#4070 of 4071)
Just Finished Playing: Dixie

Here are the "Attila: Scourge 'o God" questions that I sent XTR in
November of 1998, plus XTR's answers.

Rules Questions for Attila:

Q. Regarding heroic leaders. Are they really checked for casualties
after every step in which the unit they're stacked with rolled the dice
(or had dice rolled against it)? That's what rule 10.20 states.

A. Yes.

Q. Rule 10.5 ("Field Combat Procedure") lists a step 4, "Heroic Leader
Casualty Step." Does Step 4 simply refer to the already wounded heroic
leaders discussed in 10.20 (who roll at the end of each round for
another casualty)?


A. No. Please see the last paragraph of rule 10.21 and 10.26.

Q. Regarding attrition die rolls. Do Roman units in a besieged city have
to roll for attrition? It certainly makes sense. But according to rule
12.3 ("Roman Side Attrition"), Roman units that are in unpillaged cities
(or their surrounding areas) do not have to roll for attrition, and
besieged cities are unpillaged cities. There is a DRM on the attrition
table for units in a besieged city, however, implying that such units
roll for attrition. Reading further in 12.3, Roman units in a devastated
area must always roll for attrition, even if they're in an unpillaged
city.

A. Please read and heed the second sentence of rule 12.3. If the area
they are in is pillaged, then Roman units there must ALWAYS check for
attrition, even if there is still an unpillaged city within that area.

Q. Was the intent of the design (if you can answer this one) to force
the Hun to devastate the area surrounding a city in order to get the
units in the city to begin rolling for attrition? That's the way the
rules currently read (or at least that's the way I read 'em--I could be
missing something).

A. Yes

After reading XTR's responses, I was still not sure about leader
casualties. Roll for 'em after every step in which they fired ort were
fired at, or roll for 'em once during each round (during the Heroic
Leader Casualty Step)? The reponse to my second question directed me to
10.21 and 10.26, but those rules did not seem to answer the question I
posed.