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Grassus in Germany II German Briefing Sometimes, everybody seems to be against you. There you were, nicely minding your own business, when suddenly a bunch of Romans appears in your rear, and totally uninvited at that. Granted, "your own business" happened to involve besieging a Roman camp, and they are - as is perfectly understandable - a bit miffed about that, but still, it was them who started this whole business in the first place, going and invading your homelands. Bad form, that, and that's not even mentioning their appaling habit of showing up in the middle of a good barbecue. Nothing to be done about it, you can handle this extra bunch of Romans as well as the next lot. Quickly, you send of a messenger to your cousin Cocacolic, somewhere in the woods nearby (apparently something to do with a cask of bad wine he drank) to tell him to get his behind out of the bushes and kindly come beat the stuffing out of some Romans. You also despatch all of your cavalry and some of your swifter warriors under your other cousin Pepsic to delay the oncoming Romans while you yourself attend to the business of digging the other Romans out of their wooden plaything they call a camp. Forces available Attacking force Unit Type Quantity Alanic Irr Wb(S) CinC 1 Warriors Irr Wb(O) 50 Spotty youths Irr Ps(S) 5 Delaying force Unit Type Quantity Pepsic Irr Cv(O) General 1 Warriors on horses Irr Cv(O) 8 Young warriors on horses Irr LH(O) 4 Swift warriors Irr Wb(F) 6 Spotty youths Irr Ps(S) 10 Crafty old gits Irr Ps(O) 6 Cocalic' force Unit Type Quantity Cocacolic Irr Wb(S) General 1 Warriors Irr Wb(S) 15 Deployment Alanic deploys after the Romans in the camp deploy. He must deploy his troops east of the Roman camp, and at least 600p away from it. Pepsic deploys after Alanic, anywhere on the line of the hills, at least 300 paces away from any edge. Who knows when Cocacolic will show up, if at all, but you can decide where he will enter the board (on any edge on the western half of the board). You have to decide this before the game starts. Victory objective Capture the Roman camp. Summary of DBM fortification rules These are the most important rules regarding fortifications. Moving through a gate or leaving a TF (defenders) has to be done in a 1 element wide column. Attackers wishing to cross forticifications have to do combat, whether or not the fortifications are defended. Elements defending fortifications are at a +2 in combat. Elements defending fortifications do not align to attackers. Attackers cannot overlap defenders of fortifications. Defenders can overlap attackers. For practical movement purposes, fortification models are 'dead space'. Moving across them does not cost any movement.   Previous: Roman Briefing Next: Umpire Notes

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