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Old 11-04-2016, 01:30 PM   #2
mlangsdorf
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Default Re: [Mass Combat] High Purposes for Commanders

One thing that would make those Higher Purposes more interesting would be an additional substep in part 3: Choose Battle Strategy. In addition to secretly choosing and recording a Strategy, each commander would choose and record three strategies: one that he expects the opposing commander to choose and two that he expects the opposing commander won't choose. If the commander correctly chooses his opponent's strategy, he gets a +1 on his Battle Strategy roll, and if his opponent chooses a strategy that he thought the opposing commander wouldn't, he gets -1 on his Battle Strategy.

This would also make ambushes more deadly, since there's only two options you can choose when your force is Confused. Though the ambushers can't choose Defense strategies, so at least if you're ambushed you'll never take a penalty of on your Battle Strategy roll for picking the wrong strategy.
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