Richard Trevino - 08:59pm Oct 31, 2002 PST (#21 of 24) "We play the game with the bravery of being out of range." Rules Questions: 1. There are only two waterway types: rivers and streams. The rules state combat is not allowed over streams ("through it"). Seeing as streams run through the middle of hexes, and not along hexsides, how is "through it" determined? Youngs Branch (a stream) runs along the entire north face of Henry House Hill, the focus of the historical fighting, in a great looping arc. How would an attacker get at the defender if the defender parked himself behind that stream? 2. The game comes with two order markers for each Union leader, one to show current orders for his command and one to show an order in delivery transit. The Southern army gets only one per unit/leader. Am I missing pieces? Am I meant to write current orders or those in transit for the Southern side on paper? 3. Does a Southern Army commander make one initiative roll for himself and transmits that result to all of his units? Or is an initiative roll made for each unit? 4. And let me get this clear: a Union division leader can get his Order changed just by getting a new order from the Army commander (McDowell). ? 5. a friendly unit moves adjacent to two enemy units who are spaced with a one hex gap: Units must face hexSIDES, the hexside at the front of the unit is the only one counted as FRONT, units can only attack through that SINGLE frontal hexside, and all other hexsides count as flank or rear. Being adjacent to both these enemy units is not enough to initiate an attack. To make an attack, the friendly unit must present his flank to one of these enemy units because he will face his single frontal hexside to a hexside occupied by the other enemy unit. DO I HAVE ALL OF THIS THIS CORRECT? Thank You Richard Trevino -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roberto Chiavini - 10:22pm Oct 31, 2002 PST (#22 of 24) Richard, I'm giving these answers before the dawn here in Italy, as I'm preparing to move to Lucca. Anyway, here are the answers to your questions: 1 - Well, it seems that we have an erratum here: change the column for attacking through a stream in the TEC from Not allowed to the same as an attack through a ford. 2 - Second erratum here (well, we are becoming a serious wargaming company now, with this share of errata): it seems that the second counters for the Southern units is missing from the sheets. So, in the case that one of the Southern commanders changes the order for several of his units, in more than one turn, you need to write down the current order for that unit on a piece of paper. We'll correct this mistake making avalaible the missing counters for free download when our new site will be ready. Anyway, as normally the Confederate player activates is units through individual die rolls, this mistake should be not a real annoyance for the players (but it is still a mistake that we'll try to correct, sorry for it). 3 - A southern commander may try to change the orders for his units like a northern one, but the individual southern units may still try to get a different order if they are out of range, for example. 4 - Correct 5 - Correct, perhaps a bit convoluted, but the rule stands as you have interpreted it Richard, are you the only player of TCS games at the moment? First of all, thank you for all your questions (I'm still a newbie in this field and so to get better games I need input from players out there, to make games that are not only very pleasant to the eye - thanks to the graphics of Luigi Caruso - but also fun to play) and feel free to make others in the future. David should have also a copy of my first game, Obbedisco. Have you tried it? It is a very peculiar design, on a not widely known campaign and I have used a system full of new ideas, and I would like to get an impression from players worldwide. I have sold almost 50 copies of it, at least a dozen of them in the States, mostly through the help of Richard Berg, but I still have to get an overall impression on the game (other than the friendly reviews of Paul Rohrbaugh and Riccardo Rinaldi). Let me hear you I have to run to Lucca now. See you here Roberto Chiavini