Javier Romero - Mar 17, 2004 1:55 pm (#354 Total: 354)   
   
More Libertadores answers

More Libertadores Errata Questions:
 
1) Rule 11.3 Artillery Activation (in conjunction with the Artillery
Modifier Chart, CRT): 

The rule states: Each time an artillery unit moves a limbered marker
must be stacked with it (with negative consequences for firing, see
Artillery Modifiers after the scenarios). 

The AMC states: - 2 Firing unit is stacked with a limbered marker Please
explain how a limbered artillery battery is allowed to engage in any
kind of offensive fire combat. Self-defence in Shock combat is one
thing, but there is no way this (offensive fire while limbered up and on
the march) can physically occur on the field of battle. 

You are right, it is impossible to fire a gun while limbered, but in
Libertadores each turn represents half an hour, so what we are
simulating here is the different performance between a just-unlimbered
gun and a unlimbered gun that has had time to arrange a field of fire. 

2) Rule 13.0 How to Win: 

The rule states: From the moment of Demoralization until the end of the
scenario all the units on the demoralized side have negative modifiers
to the shock combat (see Tables). Please explain this rule in greater
detail. Does this mean that any positive modifier they would use in
combat is now negative, does it mean that whatever modifier the enemy
uses against them is now a positive or….? Please clarify. 

Any positive modifier they would use in combat is now negative. 

There is an individual "Demoralization" for units and a state of
demoralization for the whole army. This is explained as follows. The
unit morale was not affected by the damage suffered by other units
within the same army. Any one unit that was not affected by the pounding
suffered by another unit in the army, unless something happened that
could affect all the units in the army (examples: a turned flank, the
routing or envelopment of one wing, unexpected arrival of enemy
reinforcements). When something like this happens, the collective morale
is affected as a whole. To cite an example, the arrival of the Prussian
reinforcements outflanking the French at Waterloo. 

Thus, when one army in the Libertadores system enters a state of general
Demoralization, all its units are demoralized whether they were or not
under a "Demoralized" marker. All units become demoralized, and any
further "Demoralized" markers received by individual units are added to
the General Morale in order to rout the army definitively. Obviously,
when all units in any one army are in Demoralized status has a lot of
chances that the attacks of its enemy are deadly.