The 1993 Interp Book will be the last (fortunately) of its kind. Of course that means only for this administration. In an effort to further cut costs and not have to devote the entire newsletter to th interp tome, this article will contain the changes or additions over last years booklet. For those of you who want a finished copy, we will be handing those out at Cold Wars. If you are not attending that wonderful event, then I am sure by writing to one of the elected officers and sending in a few bucks, you can get your very own copy.

There are no new diagrams for this year's booklet. I had toyed with the idea of adding one but then decided it was more trouble than its worth. I also made the 93 booklet correspond with 7.5. Hopefully there is not any redundancy in that case since several ideas in the 92 booklet made their way into 7.5.

1. Experimental Rules. We dropped the expendable and LTS rules since they are now in 7.5. However, another deployment wrinkle has been added, namely: Separate commands cannot overlap laterally when deploying except that an entire command may deploy entirely behind another.

2. Detachments. An unattached detachment could possibly provide support to the parent body if of a correct troop type and located in the proper position. Attached detachments do not provide support.

3. Incendiary Missiles. Flaming HTW do not shoot like ranged weapons. I was previously playing around with a very exotic interpretation of this and of course it was wrong.

4. Flank Marches and Arrivals. If a side pushed back arrives prior to the third bound or the "pushers" arrive after the fifth, fatigue is still accumulated as per the rules.

5. Wedges. Wedges in H-T-H that are mixed troop types count as the type and shield of the leading element if steady.

6. Skirmish. In para 8 on page 18, you need to add "state" after "morale" in the third sentence.

7. Attack Orders. Elephant and chariot crews who are armed with B, etc., cannot declare charges unprompted when first eligible under attack orders.

8. The paragraph under "Attacks by Irr A" has changed somewhat. I' should now read: Units that are entirely "Irr A" may declare charge without needing to be prompted unless of a troop type forbidden to declare charges against certain targets. Thus, any body containing "Irr A" troops MUST declare an unprompted charge when first eligibly under attack orders and any body entirely of "Irr A" under probe orders unless it is a body of light troops attacking heavier steady troops or not starting behind a flank or cavalry facing steady LTS or pike. Any loose formation foot unit MAY do so under wait or hold orders, but a close formation foot unit could not.

9. Ambush. The edge of the table does not count for surprise.

10. Troop State-Cohesion. Bodies breaking through others are not disordered by doing so. Also, we give an example about cessation cured disorder. If it occurs during the approach phase of bound 2, it does not "cure" itself until the END of bound 3.

11. Troop State-Fatigue. Fatigue points accrued from charging or counter-charging apply in that bound's support shooting or H-T-H combat.

12. Marches. Bodies marching must move the entire march segment move distance. If they are forced to move less, they have halted and cannot march again that bound. You cannot skip a march segment and march again in the same bound. If a LC unit moves on 5, it cannot skip 4 and then move on 3. In order for a unit that has marched to declare a charge, it must have completed EVERY march segment. Troops marching cannot get closer than 240 paces to an enemy unless the body is screened by intervening troops or terrain features which reduce or block visibility.

13. Contacting uncovered units. We are substituting the words "passes through" at two spots in the first para of this section. Also, should a friendly unit rout and divert around or pass through friends, these friends can become the target of a converted charge whether or not they were "hidden" beforehand.

14. Converted Charges. The restrictions on what new enemy bodies that can be converted into while pursuing do NOT apply to break-through or follow up moves without expansion.

15. Recoiling and Following Up. Bodies halting a recoil disorder the body which is unable to fully complete the move but are not disordered themselves.

16. Rallying. Bodies in a must rally situation can still prep :hoot. Bodies in a must rally situation cannot perform functions as a result of prep shooting, instead take the waver test. Bodies suffering from a cessation-cured disorder can become steady even if involved in H-T-H combat.

17. Changing Direction or Formation. Dropping back elements "free" during march or tactical moves to pass gaps can only occur if the gap is narrower than the moving body. Also, expansion of elements by bodies making a follow-up move is prohibited if the expanding elements would contact another enemy body.

18. Interpenetration. A body cannot charge an enemy body which is between and beyond two enemy bodies unless both enemy bodies forming the shoulders of the gap are in H-T-H combat from a previous bound unless that gap is greater than two elements wide.

19. Shooting ranges. When determining ranges for support shooting, the end position of the bodies after charge and charge-response moves determines the range. Bodies ending in contact shoot at close range, others where they end up on the table.

20. Results of Prep Shooting. If a body that has made a decision about an action as a result of prep shooting is later UNAVOIDABLY prevented from performing the instruction, it still must take a waver test at the moment it becomes apparent it cannot follow through with the decision. However, disordered bodies in a must rally situation which receive 2 CPF from prep shooting which calls for an action they cannot perform, i.e., charge unprompted, must take a waver test.

21. Pursuers. Non-impetuous pursuers still in contact with routers have all charge response options, including evade if of a type eligible to evade. This also means that such non-impetuous cavalry armed with L which respond by counter-charging count the L in the subsequent H-T-H combat.

22. Non-ignitable expendables must force march if other bodies in the army do.