Tactical System Description

Carnage&GloryII

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Tactical Systems - Computer Moderated Game systems for use with Tabletop Miniatures

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The Army List represents of database of General Officers and Combat Units. Various historical lists have been prepared as companions to the basic system to reflect the composition of different forces engaged in particular battles or campaigns. The basic system comes pre-loaded with two army lists. The Order of Battle represents a database of General Officers and Combat Units selected from two or more army lists that you wish to engage in a table-top wargame scenario.

Pre-Battle Utilities:

With the following options, Environmental conditions, Army Initiative, Scouting, Naming of Armies and Battle, presetting Formations, Fatigue, Ammunition and Reserve and Flank Forces. Army Initiative and morale is a barometer of an army's relative combat worthiness in comparison to its opponent. It is affected by the individual combat units relative strengths, fatigue and morale condition and active General Officers leadership and tactical qualities. If one army's morale is sufficiently low and lower than its opponent, then the result will be the progressive reduction in individual combat units morale status. However this downward spiral can be slowed and even reversed by the arrival of friendly off-table reserves, or improvement in individual units fatigue and morale levels.

Battle:

With the following options, Issue Orders, Engineering, Movement, Fire, Close Combat, Rally and End of Turn Phases, and Command and Control features, including reviewing command structures, by commands or individual units or officers, Reassignment of individual officers or combat units, Issuing of combat orders, reviewing Army Initiative and current Victory Status comparisons.

Each game turn, which represents fifteen minutes of real battle action, is sub-divided into the following phases: Each phase is sequential such that engineering should be performed before movement, which is before fire action and so on.

During this phase available combat units can engage in light field engineering tasks, which might include demolition, light construction and incendiary action. Units that perform engineering tasks may be prohibited from formation changes and fire action, and may typically incur fatigue loss.

During this phase combat units can attempt to charge, change formation, double, perform passage of lines or voluntary routs and cross disruptive terrain. All necessary morale checks and fatigue loss is automatically calculated as required by the selected option.

During this phase combat units can engage in unit to unit fire combat. All necessary morale checks, fatigue and combat strength losses will be automatically calculated dependent upon the physical circumstances affecting and relating to the firing and target units.

During this phase combat units that are determined to be actual or more realistically near physical contact are engaged in melee. All necessary morale, fatigue and combat strength losses will be automatically calculated dependent upon the physical circumstance affecting each unit engaged in the combat.

During this phase combat units as required, due to weakening morale, can be inspected and rallied by general officers in an attempt to improve the units current state of order and morale level. Some general officers, depending on their leadership qualities and position in the army's chain of command will perform this duty better than others.

This phase is mandatory at the end of each game turn. The Army Initiative status will be displayed. The army with the better army initiative is given the option of moving before or after their opponent. This alternate move system avoids many of the traditional pitfalls associated with simultaneous movement. General officers will be advised of the receipt of new orders, and of their own personal morale status. Combat units are reviewed for compulsory reactions resulting from their combat experience of the preceding game turn. Any loss or improvement in fatigue, morale or combat strength will be automatically calculated and accounted. the system will update the prevailing weather, ground and visibility conditions and proceed to the next game turn, where the sequence is repeated.

Engineering:

Combat orders will affect a commands ability to engage in different forms of combat, individual unit initiative relates directly to the units commanding officers direct orders. General Officers can directly influence a combat units effectiveness during engineering, movement, fire, combat, rally and end of turn phases. The positioning of General Officers becomes an important aspect of combat, however, placing any officer in harms way may ultimately result in his untimely injury or loss. General Officers may suffer minor, serious, or mortal wounds and may be captured in combat.

Post-Battle Utilities:

With the following options, Next-Day Victory Status (which represents the final losses and adjustment to experience and morale), Resetting of Order of Battle (to pre-battle status) and Reconstitution of Army Lists (which returns next-day losses etc., to parent army list).

Victory Status:

This option calculates either the current [available at any point in the course of the game] or end of battle victory status of the two opposing sides, suggesting the level of victory for one side or the other. The end of battle option also automatically calculates the numbers of returning wounded and missing during the immediate aftermath of battle. The numbers of returning wounded and missing can sometimes alter the victory status. For example, a Pyrrhic victory for one side can sometimes be changed to a minor victory for the other side, or major victories can be reduced to minor victories or vice versa.

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