Feedback from a year's play by several thousand wargamers has facilitated the following fine tuning. Some items clarify meanings, a few block gimmick tactics before these become established, some remove redundancies, and many are just good ideas suggested by players.
P. 6. Para 4, line 1. Delete [loose], substitute [close].
Para 7, line 2. Add ["K" are SHK, EHK and HK.].
Para 8, line 2. Delete [or HIJ, substitute [, HI or LHI].
line 3. Insert f, LMI or LIJ after [Mf]. Insert [only move in column,] after [they].
line 4. Delete [against shooting). Delete [side arms], subs, [a side arm].
Para 9, line 5. Insert [mounted] before [troops].
P. 9. Para 3, line 1. Delete [units], substitute [bodies].
lines 2-3. Delete [an entirely"A" or"B" class], substitute [a].
line 4. Delete [must do to], substitute [cannot]. Insert (unless it does after (charges).
Para 4, line 3. Insert [, or one and a half] before [loose].
P. 10.Para 9, line 1. Insert [figure on an elephant base,] after [chariot].
P. 11.Para 11, line 12. Delete [man], substitute [figure].
P. 14.Para 8, line 4. Delete [treble], substitute [at least three times].
P. 15.Para 9, line 3. Delete [units], substitute [or unit].
Para 10, line 1. Insert [by one command unit] after march.
Para 11, line 1. Delete [Flank flank.]
line 7. Add [A C-in-C or baggage cannot flank march.].
P. 16.Para 11, line 4. Delete [odd oreven], substitute [lower or higher].
P. 17.Para 5, line 1, Delete [All this], substitute [Dicing simulates confirmation of]. Delete [is].
Para 9, line 4. Delete [Elephant crew or], substitute [Elephantry and].
Para 10, line 4. Insert [LI halted or making approach moves in] before [vineyards]. Delete [and), substitute [or]. Delete [conceal moves], substitute [cannot be seen beyond 120 paces].
P. 18.Para 4, lines 4-5. Delete [German elements]. Subs [An extra complete element can be added]. Delete [these].
Para 5, line 5. Insert [and cannot be multiple] after [LC].
Para 7, line 12. Insert [HCm] after [HC].
P. 22. Para 4, line 1. Delete whole line.
line 2. Delete (consists), substitute [is]. Delete [of]. Add [or includes a rash general].
Para 7, line 2. Delete [SHK, EHK, HK], substitute [J, E1, Ch].
Para 8, line 3. Insert [not in orb] after [foot].
line 4. Delete [rest on], substitute [have].
line 5. Add [or an obstacle within 40 paces.].
Para 10, line 1. Insert for broken] after [exhausted].
Add new line after linel. [Responding to charge if already shaken before charge declarations.].
line 2. Insert [or each] after [any].
line 5. Insert [and/] before for].
line 6. Insert for is expendable] after [LI].
P. 23.Para 5, lines 5-6. Delete [are the target of], substitute [receive 1 CPF from].
P. 24.Para 9, line 5. Delete [as also must]. Insert [only in column] after [foot].
P. 25.Para 1, line 7. Delete [directly].
line 8. Insert [complete] before [segment].
line 9. Add [Marches must be in column or block.].
Para 2, lines 4-5. Delete [if first], subs. [Dice once each bound for which side's bodies must move first whenever they mutually approach, except that any mounted body can choose to move before or after opposing foot.]
Para 4, line 5. Delete [all than], substitute [any figure closer than the nearest was].
Para 8, line 4. Delete [preparatory]. Insert [at, charges on,] after [shooting].
lines 4-5. Delete [except evades].
Para 10, line 2. Insert [counting as] before [a target]. Delete [the], subs. [its].
lines 2-4. Delete [foot mounted body], substitute [non-impetuous foot who have a charge declared on them by mounted or impetuous troops, or if they are elephants or non-impetuous foot and a separate impetuous or mounted body not of elephants].
P. 26.Para 3, line 1. Add [or troops evading last bound] after [skirmishers].
line 6. Delete [maximum good terrain].
line 8. Add [Troops in hand-to-hand contact cannot evade.].
Para 4, line 4. Delete [prevent], substitute [halt the].
Para 8, line 2. Delete [bound's].
Para 9, line 6. Delete [without a formal turn], subs. [ending facing opponents].
Para 10, line 1. Delete [or frontage], substitute [ ending 1 element wide if formerly 1-4 figures or 1 model deep, 2 or 3 if deeper; or 1801.]
line 2. Insert [or contract] after [Expand]. Delete 43/41, substitute [2 elements].
P. 27.Para 2, line 3. Delete [element], subsitute [or two elements'].
Para 6, line 5. Delete [Troops],subs. [Elements]. Delete [behind], subs. [beyond).
Para 7, line 2. Delete [increases body], substitute [doubles if either shoulder of the gap is enemy not in hand-to-hand combat).
P. 28. Para 3, line 5. Insert [,2HCI after [pike]. Insert [hand-to-hand weapons] after [opponents].
Para 7, line 4. Insert [a wagon or] before [wheels].
Para 8, line 1. Insert [without mantlets if behind not in them] after [wagons].
P. 29.Para 2, line 1. Delete [not enemy], substitute [before charges are declared).
Para 8, line 2. Insert [of bodies] before [not visible].
Para 9, line 2. Insert [except armed chariot or elephant drivers] after [weapon]. Delete [Each], substitute [One].
lines 2-3. Delete [so armed], substitute [armed with B, LB, CEI or JLS).
Para 12, lines 4-5. Delete [or elephant].
P. 30.Para 1, line 4. Delete [a body's target's], subs. leach shooting element, or that of an element contiguous to its side or front if closer, to its priority target element's].
Para 2, line 3. Insert [, hand guns] after [darts]. line 6. Delete [Hand 40p].
Para 13, line 1. Insert [and any movement last bound or having just forced marched if bombards or stone throwers] before precludes.
P. 32.Para 3, line 3. Delete [less which].
Para 4, line 6. Insert [loose or] before [close].
Para 8, line 4. Insert (foot with] before [pike].
P. 33.Para 9, line 2. Insert [artillery or] before [disordered foot].
Para 11, line 2 Delete [or 21-101. Add [, or by a partly pike armed elephant or LTS-armed chariot crew.]. (Also alters example on p.46.)
Para 12, line 2. Delete [, or crew].
P. 34. Para 5, line 3. Delete [fighting]. Insert [of the foot] after [front rank]. Insert [eagerness,] after [for].
P. 36.Para 2, line 1. Insert [transport] after [artillery,].
line 4. Delete [wagons].
Para 7, line 1. Delete [primary], substitute (preparatory].
P. 37.Para 4, line 1. Insert [at least] before [2 CPF]. Insert [one of] after Idol.
line 4. Insert 1, or if elephants] after [shooters].
line 6. Delete [loose formation], substitute [other].
lines 6 & 7.Delete fself-1, substitute [un-].
Para 5, line 1. Insert [or more] after [3].
Para 8, lines 4&6.lnsert [Other] before [light] and [pike-].
Para 9, line 1. Insert [and 1 CPFl after [inflicted].
line 2. Insert [fully] after [recoil].
Para 12, line 1. Insert [Non-impetuous] before [regular close].
Para 13, line 2. Insert [from front to rear] after [them].
line 3. Insert [already] before [unsteady].
Para 14, Insert new line before line 1. [If neither side receives 1 CPF, bodies that originally charged may break-off.).
line 1. Insert [destroy] before [pursue]. Delete (break], subs. [rout].
line 3. Delete [pursue, follow-up or recoil].
P. 39.Para 3, line 2. Delete [steady], substitute [unshaken].
line 4. Insert [and half that of other unbroken enemy on or off-table and of his own broken or destroyed troops. Count a minus score as zero] after [recovered].
lines 4-5. Delete [Do conceded.].
lines 5-6. Delete [1501, substitute [50]. Insert [and deduct 100 points if all own hasj after [looted,].
line 7. Delete [does score], substitute [adds 1 point per minute early, but counts all his troops as off-table].
P. 45. Para 6, line 3. Delete [hold], substitute [wait].
Para 10, line 2. Delete [hold], substitute [wait].
P. 48.Para 5, Address is now [The Keep, Le Marchant Brks, London Rd, Devizes SN10 2ER.].
Q.R Sheet. Alter MORALE as P.22, HG range as P.30, H-T-H TACTICAL FACTORS as P.33.
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