(Note: Each day, correspondence is posted at www.NapoleonGames.com) From: Mike Bowen Subject: Bonaparte in Italy Just read through the rules and I have the following comments. 1 Define capture in rule 127 of the exclusive rules, as Mantova starts owned by Austria. 'Recapture' would be better, or do you count opening a LOC to it? 2 What if you force march a friendly force into a hex with a concentrated force next to the enemy who then attack. Do they get a modifier? if so what? 3 173 Exclusive Rules. I think this should be with 4+ SP otherwise you can use an unemployed named leader to pop into Mantova ignoring ZofCs and he carries 4 months supplies on his back! 4 How (other than pursuit) can you capture a bridge train? If there are SP with the leader you can't enter and if the leader is alone he may well displace taking the train with him? Can you repulse a train? 5 Off Map movement. Any attrition? if so how much? 6 Forage penalty on the CRT implies that the 2 column shift applies to an attacker as well. I must admit I fail to see why an attacker is not affected. 7 On the replacement table a roll of 0 or less seems to result in a negative number. Does this mean that the Austrians have to deduct troops? if so how? 8 I still think that a force whose ZofC you retreat through should inflict double losses only up to 2 times its strength eg two points 4 losses extra. From: Jim Lauffenburger The marathon PBEM game of Barren Victory is over. It is fully described in the web site: http://www.pcisys.net/~jimlauf Mike BowenAlso, there is a set of discussions and an opportunity to post comments at: http://www.lauffenburgers.com/discussion.html Back to OSG News November 2000 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Operational Studies Group. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com