It explores a couple of ideas that interest me as capturing the nature of fighting a battle.
The first is that a small unit activates easier than a large unit, the counter to that is that a large combat unit has greater combat power.
Second is that players are generals and that they are now in direct competition as commanders not as fighters.
Third the level of combat intensity is to a degree within the players control.
Now to illustrate this I will use a stylised representation of command with a major general commanding a brigade, a lieutenant general commanding a division, a full general a corp and you the player controlling the army.
Give each player an activation chit for each general in his army.
Players roll a competitive die roll. Winner selects a command to activate.
Roll a D10 to activate general and his command
- 10 all fail
- 9 MG activate
- 8 LG and lower activates
- 6 General and lower activates
- 1-6 all commanders activates
A successful activation allows that commander to move all his units. A higher level general will be able to exclude sub-commanders and their troops from the move. All those troops selected to move will conduct a single move with everybody moving the same distance and direction.
If there is no combat then you begin again.
If there is combat, begin resolving them. Now if the non-activating player wins a combat they will get the opportunity to force the active player to lose his activation chit by asking for another activation test. This will force the current chit to be lost. The currently active player must select the general he currently has engaged in combat.
If the active player successfully wins all combats the activation chit is lost and new test begins. He will have the option to use that command again.
Once all the chits are used then the turn is over.
There that's the basic idea. I think it has some merit and it is ready for scrutiny.
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