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This thread is for the DakkaDakka play by email campaign of En Garde.

Game results, news and rules explanations will be posted here.

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Basic Game Introduction

En Garde is a Play By eMail (PBeM) campaign game set in the rollicking world of Paris in the 1620s. Each player controls one character, whose objective is to increase his social level to the highest degree possible. There are no female player characters in this version of the game. (Players need not be male.)

Characters are generated by random dice rolls, like most RPGs. In the PBeM version this is done by the Umpire.

Physical Stats of Strength, Expertise (in duelling) and Constitution are all rolled on 3D6. They can be improved during the game. Endurance (hit points) is derived from Str x Con. It is reduced by wounds suffered in duels, and heals naturally.

Military Ability is rolled on 1D6 and cannot usually be improved. It comes into play when a character is in a military campaign.

Social Level is determined by birth and the player’s success in the game.

Players are completely free to communicate with other players by PM or email. The Umpire will ignore any communications except properly formatted orders or enquiries about the rules.

A directory of all characters will be updated and published each month in the monthly newspaper, Le Poireau Parisien.

A character sheet and useful game tables can be downloaded from www.engarde.co.uk. Please note that the rules for duelling have been completely changed for PBeM play so most of the Duelling tables can be ignored.

Advanced Game Information

Families
Except for establishing your initial SL and money, they have no effect on the game.

Death
This can only occur from duelling, bad battle results on military campaign, or by criminal prosecution for embezzlement, etc. There are no deaths from disease or accidents.


The Game Year and Campaigning Seasons

The game year consists of 12 months of exactly four weeks each. While the year has the same months as our normal year and starts on January 1, for the purposes of the game it is divided into military campaigning seasons as follows:

Winter (December, January, February)
Spring (March, April, May)
Summer (June, July, August)
Autumn (September, October, November)

Status Points
The objective of the game is to reach the highest levels of smart society, represented by your social level (SL.) You gain SL by getting Status Points (SP.)

SPs are accrued by various kinds of activity. Your total at the end of the month determines whether you will gain an SL or even lose one. At the start of the next month your SP total is reset to 0.

You gain one SL if you accumulate SPs equal to triple the target level. Example: If your current SL is 4, your target level is 5, so you need 15 SPs at the end of the month.

You lose an SL if you fail to accumulate SPs equal to your current SL.

You can’t gain more than one SL per month except if the King gives you a noble title.


Ways to Gain SPs (or lose them!)

Membership of a regiment -- Refer to Regiment Table B.
Membership of a club -- Refer to Clubs Table
Duelling -- Refer to Duelling Table D, also see the explanation of Duelling below.

Having a Mistress +1
A Beautiful Mistress +1
High SL Mistress + the difference in SL
Not having a mistress and not visiting a bawdy house each month -2
Repeating the above an extra -2 for each month going without (-4, -6, -8, etc.)
Courting a mistress and arriving at her door at the same time as another player character; if the higher SL character withdraws in favour of the lower, he loses the difference between their SLs.

Conspicuous Consumption +1
Normal subsistence costs 2x SL pistoles a month. Conspicuous consumption costs 3x SL a month.

Carousing +1
Cost is your SL in pistoles
Carousing is done while visiting bawdyhouses or clubs. These visits can be combined with other activities such as female companionship, gambling or toadying.

Toadying
This means sucking up to your social superiors and takes the form of your being invited to their club.

The lower SL character receives points as follows:
SPs equal to the difference in rank between the highest ranking club you could join and the one you are visiting. See the Club Table for details.
SPs equal to half the difference in SL between your character and the higher character to whom you are toadying.

If carousing at the club you must pay costs equal to the higher SL character’s carousing cost and receive +1 SP as normal.

High SL characters may lose SPs from being seen surrounded by a crowd of plebs. Refer to the Toady Table for details. Players may wish to arrange some form of compensation for this loss.

A character may allow himself to be toadied to by any number of other characters.

Gambling
This can be done at clubs or bawdyhouses. The basic game is the same at both venues.

The player decides in advance how big and how many his bets will be.
Your stake on each play can’t be higher than the club limit.
There is no limit at bawdyhouses.
The game is a simple dice game in which the house rolls a D6 and the Player tries to beat it with his roll. The house wins on a tie. Having seen the house roll the player may decide to cut rather than roll. If he cuts, he loses half the stake. A win gains pistoles equal to the stake.

Obviously this system can’t work in an online game so the Umpire will make both rolls and the player should specify in advance what he will do according to the possible house rolls. For example:

House Roll Player’s Strategy
6 ----------------- Cut
5 ----------------- Cut
4 ----------------- Play
3 ----------------- Play
2 ----------------- Play
1 ----------------- Play

Your orders can also specify how many times to gamble, and how much for each stake. You could gamble until you win twice, for example, or some other set of orders.

SPs from Gambling
Each win +1
Each cut or loss -1

Club gambling: Total the money staked that week and divide it by the club divisor (see Club Table) -- the result is the SPs gained. (Fractions are dropped.) Please note that this means you get fewer SPs when gambling at a bawdyhouse.
A character may not place more than nine bets in one week.

High Military Rank, Military Appointments, Government Appointments and NobleTitles
Consult the relevant tables for details.

Campaigning
Each Mention In Dispatches is worth 1d6 SPs for the three months after you return from campaign, and 1SP per month permanently thereafter. There is more detail about campaigning below.


Duelling
A duel may take place when two characters meet who have some grudge or complaint between them. Duelling is not allowed for the sake of it, there must be proper cause.

Examples of a Valid Cause for a Duel

Characters of unfriendly regiments meeting.
Committing an indiscretion with another character’s mistress (when found out!)
Insulting a regimental friend of a character.
Two characters courting the same mistress (and meeting at her door.)
If a noble meets a non-noble who is four or more SL above him.

When two characters meet and there is cause for a duel, a character who does not fight will lose SPs equal to half his current SL, unless he is already seriously wounded.

If there is doubt about the cause, it will be decided by vote of all the non-involved players belonging to the same regiments as the involved players and the duel will be arranged for the following month. (Due to the time lag involved in PBeM.)


Resolution of Duels (The Fencing System)

Each player should prepare with the following precautions which should be noted in your orders. (They can be standing orders, meaning you do not have to repeat it each month.)

1. Decide what weapon to wear. Everyone has a rapier. Alternatives are the sabre, carried by cavalry regiments, and the cutlass, carried by marine regiments.

Personal weapons are carried at all times, so you will be assumed to be wearing a rapier unless you have specified something else.

2. Take account of your Endurance and decide how hard to fight.

Simply state in your orders at what number of remaining Endurance points you will surrender.

Whilst it is possible for a death to occur by accident, it is strictly illegal to duel to the death.

The Fight

In order to determine a duel, follow these steps:

Who goes first?
Each round, roll 1D6 for each duellist and add the following factors:
Higher expertise +1
Struck first in previous round +1
Scored higher damage in previous round +1
Current Endurance is higher +1

The higher modified score wins and attacks first.

Chance of striking

The character with the higher expertise has the following percentage chance to hit:
40 + Exp. + The difference in expertise between the duellists.

The character with the lower expertise has the following percentage chance to hit:
40 + Exp. - The difference in expertise between the duellists.

Expertise and damage are modified by the weapon used, as below. The damage a character will cause is determined as followed: Strength x weapon factor

Weapon factors Damage Exp Mod.
Rapier x1 0
Sabre x1.5 -3 pts.
Cutlass x1.5 -3 pts.

Each round both characters determine who attacks first. They then roll 1D100 to look whether they hit or not and damage is caused. A To Hit roll which is a double modifies the damage factor to 2.

This will be repeated until one of the gentlemen surrenders or is killed.

The winner of a duel increases his Exp. by 1 point.

SPs from Duelling
If your End is under 50% of normal, you are allowed to honourably decline a duel. If you accept, you gain three SP.

See also Duelling Table D.


Recovery of End. Points
By the end of the week following the duel, your character will recover half the End lost. He will then recover End at the rate of his Con per week.


Money

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistole

List of Things Which Cost Money

Basic subsistence -- 2 x SL per month
Conspicuous Consumption -- 3 x SL per month (replaces basic consumption)
A groom -- 2 per month (required if you own any horses)
Horses -- 100 each to buy, continuing cost of 3 each per month. You must own a horse if you are in a cavalry regiment or if you are a captain of any regiment. Majors and above of all regiments must own three horses.
Club membership -- See the Club table
Courting -- 3 x SL of the object of your affections per week of courting. The money is paid whether you are successful or not.
Enhance courting -- 3 x SL per +1 die roll modifier (See the Mistress Courting Table, always fails on a roll of 1.) This represents extra presents.
Maintaining your Mistress -- 3 x her SL per month, starting form the month after getting her as your Mistress.
Entertaining your Mistress at a club -- Her SL. (This may replace the monthly visit to her house an may be combined with other club activities.)
Carousing -- Your SL
Carousing while toadying -- Your host’s SL
Visit to a bawdyhouse for the purpose of female companionship -- Your SL
(Before setting off for the evening you must specify the amount of money to be carried in case footpads set upon you on your way home. (1/6 chance.)
Don’t forget to carry enough money for carousing and gambling if that is part of your plan.)

Loans -- 10% interest at the end of six months for loans borrowed from a moneylender. Maximum borrowing = 100 x SL.
Loans from a character -- Interest free but must be repaid after three months if requested.

Fencing practice -- Exp. per week of practice with a weapon.
Practicing your regiment’s weapon is free. For four weeks of practice (not necessarily consecutive) you add 1 to your Exp with the weapon you practice with. You can exchange 5 Exp for one point of Str. This is not reversible.



Automatically Appended Next Post:
Le Poireau Parisien de November 1620

Advertisements
Monsieur Le Capitan de Busche seeks brave and worthy gentlemen to join the Royal North Highland Border Regiment for service against the Walloons. Both private gentlemen and officers are needed. Applicants should present themselves to the barracks by the end of December. Please have regard to the special requirements for service in this elite regiment.

Court and Social
It has pleased His Majesty the King to appoint Monsieur Le Capitan de Busche to command of the Royal North Highland Border Regiment with the rank of Colonel.

Around Town
It is rumoured that His Excellency the Cardinal Richelieu commanded a private performance of the latest play by Moliere -- Le Misanthrope -- at his palace last week, and several ladies were in attendance.

We are reliably informed that Her Majesty the Queen has ordered new curtains for her carriage. It is said the pattern combines purple velvet and lace of Nantes to great advantage.

Sport
Our brave ball-foot players won by three goals to one against a visiting team from the English province of Ireland. Protests that the winning goal was struck by hand into the target were countered by the obvious point that the handball rule has not yet been invented. Asked to comment, the referee said, “Bof!”

Paris
Two workmen were killed by falling from the roof of Notre Dame while replacing a gargoyle. No doubt they were drunken sots; the cathedral authorities should be criticised for employing such imbeciles. Fortunately no damage was suffered to the gargoyle or the pavement where the idiots struck ground.

La France
Floods in the Dordogne!
After several days of unseasonable rains, the river Semmes burst its banks and swept away the bridge into Arles, and some other bridges.

International
Another disturbance in Silesia, where a rebellious Protestant rabble had to be scattered by Imperial Kurassiers when they prevented the Bishop of Mainz from entering the cathedral of Wroclaw to celebrate Holy Mass.

Des Autres

Un annuaire discret des femmes jolies, riches, influentes, et sans attaches*

SL --- Nom --- --- --- --- --- Joie? --- Riche? --- Influente?
15 --- La Comtesse ... ... ... .. N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N
14 --- Camille Dupont ... ... ... Y ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N
13 --- Delphine Artois ... ... ... N ... ... .. Y ... ... ... ... Y
13 --- Manon Bouvier ... ... ... Y ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N
12 --- Roxane Lambert ... ... ..N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N
12 --- Yasmine Moreau ... ... ..N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N
10 --- Olympe Prideau ... ... ...Y ... ... .. Y ... ... ... ... Y
9 ---- Ninon Girard ... ... ... ... N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... Y
6 ----- Bibi Roux ... ... ... ... ... N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N

*Information may not be entirely correct. The publisher takes no responsibility for problems arising from an error.

Business
The East India Company is fitting out a fleet to sail in the Spring. Shares are now available on the usual terms.

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Membership of a Regiment
The named regiments are shown in Regimental Table B. The chance of joining is shown in Regimental Table A.

You can resign your regiment and apply to another one when you like. If you volunteer to campaign with the RNHB or other border regiments, you keep your place in your named regiment, and you take your rank with you.

All border regiments count the same as the Gascon Regiment for pay, but joining is automatic, except for the RNHB which requires qualifications of expertise and endurance which your character may not match. If you can't join the RNHB you can always join a no-name border regiment.

SPs don't matter when you are on campaign because your status is froze.

I'd appreciate clarification on how to write orders for applying to join a regiment. I am under the impression that Table A is some sort of diceroll table for random acceptance into one's chosen regiment? If so I don't understand the negative numbers... anyway, here we go.

Supposing I would like to join the 53rd Fusiliers, do I specify that I would like to apply for a rank? If so, can I presume that lower priority applications would be different ranks and/or regiments?

Do I automatically join as a Private, or can I apply for higher ranks if my SL is sufficient (ie should intended rank also be specified)?

Would I be required to pay the 'purchase price' should I be accepted into the regiment?

Is it mandatory to spend a certain amount of time performing regimental duties when a member of one?

Here is my example, as I understand it...

Let's say I am SL 6. Referencing table A, I have a 4+ (50%) chance of being accepted into the Queen's Own, Archduke Leopold's, or the Crown Prince's.

The Queen's Own and Archduke's fall under regiment 4 in Table B, and the Crown Prince's is regiment 5. Referencing the minimum SL row, this means I can join at Captain for the first two, and at up to Major for the Crown Prince's.

So I would place joining orders as follows:

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Apply to join the following in descending order:
Queen's Own as Captain
Archduke Leopold's as Captain
Crown Prince's as Major
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Have I completely missed the mark here? I'm still unsure about Table A.

A lot of players want to join a regiment for obvious reasons. Since the process is complicated here is a full explanation.

There are 17 elite regiments in the game. They have names like Grand Duke Max Dragoons and 13th Fusiliers -- these regiments are listed in Regimental Tables A, B and C for different purposes.

If you want to join one of these regiments this is what to do.

Compare your SL with Table A (Application to Regiment.) This gives you the chance on a D6 of your application being successful. (Later in the game, when players have become commanders of regiments, they can decide for themselves about new applications.)

You will see that if you have SL=6, you have a chance to succeed in applications to any regiment except the Royal Foot Guards. Naturally, the lower regiment you apply to, the better your chance.

A successful application admits you as a private. If you want to be an officer, you have to pay for it.

Commissions up to the rank of Major can be bought on successful application. It is important to know the costs.

A. The cost listed in Table B is the cost for buying a rank from the rank below. If you are a Subaltern in the Crown Prince Cuirassiers, it costs 110P to buy a Captaincy. However, as a new joiner, you are not a Subaltern, so you need to buy the position of Subaltern (100P) and the Captaincy (110P) for a total of 210P.

B. Unfortunately, the Crown Prince Cuirassiers is a cavalry regiment. Although membership gives you free sabre practice, you have to buy a horse (100P,) engage a groom (2P per month) and pay for the horse’s upkeep (3P per month.)

C. Even in infantry regiments, most officers are mounted. Captains of any regiment must buy a horse, and Majors must buy three horses. (Your groom can take care of all of them.)

D. Once you have been a member of the regiment for one month you may buy commissions higher than Major, but only if there is not an incumbent in the post. Basically, when a player character joins a regiment the Umpire has to roll up the other officer positions to see which slots are empty. You don’t know this information until you have joined.

(Historical note: The system of purchasing commissions was used in the British Army until after the Crimean War.)

E. If you decide to volunteer for a border regiment, you carry your rank with you.

F. You do not have to resign your regiment to volunteer for a border regiment, and you rejoin your regiment at the end of the campaign.

G. You can resign your regiment at any time and join another one. You lose the value of any commission you hold. There are no other penalties in game terms.

H. Border regiments are paid at the same rate as the Gascon Regiment. There are no SPs as you can’t collect or lose SPs while on campaign.


Making applications
You can apply to as many regiments as you like in a week, however if your first application is unsuccessful, your second must be to a lower ranked regiment, and so on.

The top rank is 1, the Royal Foot Guards. If you applied to the Queen’s Own Carabiniers (rank 4) and were refused, you can’t apply to the Archduke Leopold Cuirassiers the same week, but you can apply to the Crown Prince Cuirassiers, as they are rank 5.

If you are rejected from two regiments in one week, further attempts are penalised by -1 to the die roll.

However, the next week your status is reset and you can apply to any regiment. It shouldn’t be too difficult to join a regiment in a month if you spend several weeks applying.

You can make conditional orders, so you can make an order like this:
Week 1. Apply to Crown Prince Cuirassiers as Subaltern. If not successful, apply to Grand Duke Max Dragoons as Subaltern.
Week 2. Regimental Duties, or repeat applications of Week 1.


Frontier Regiments
These regiments have no name and are constantly on campaign around the borders of France. Most people only volunteer for a frontier regiment because they are desperate for money or Mentions In Dispatches.

The rate of pay of frontier regiments is the same as the Gascon Regiment. There are no SPs since while on campaign your SL is frozen.

The death rate is frontier regiments is higher than in the elite regiments.


The Royal North Highland Border Regiment
This is an elite frontier regiment. It campaigns all year round so positions are always open for courageous young men. SL does not matter.

As an elite regiment, the entry restrictions are based on minimum level of stats as follows:
End. minimum 110. Exp. min 9. MA. min 2 (for officers.) In addition, officers may only volunteer if they have received a merit promotion (not purchased) or a Mention In Dispatches. An officer of an elite may volunteer as a private, if not qualified as an officer.

Officers of rank of Major and higher will always command a battalion when they volunteer for the RNHB. This matters for campaign resolution. I will cover all the details of campaigns in another bulletin; here are the basics.


Campaigns
While the frontier regiments campaign all year round, some elements from the elite regiments are added to field army for the summer campaign (June, July, August.) The decision is made partly by dice rolling and partly by players whose characters are in various high command positions.

The advantages of being on campaign are:

While on campaign you receive pay and allowances, but there are no costs.
Your SL is frozen and you do not need to keep track of SPs.
The possibility of plunder.
The chance of a Mention In Dispatches or even a promotion.

The disadvantages of campaigning are:

Some miscreant idling his time in Paris may take a crack at your Mistress.
While on campaign you can’t increase your SL.
You might get killed.
To avoid being killed you might need to resort to Poltroonery and get noticed with the consequence of Disgrace!


Volunteering for Campaign
Each campaign season lasts three months. You can volunteer at the start of any month, but once on campaign you can’t come back to Paris until the end of the campaign season. Each month of a campaign, the Umpire will determine results for any player involved.

Do you need to buy commission immediately upon acceptance into the regiment, or can you do it later?

You can buy it later. The disadvantage of waiting is that ranks above subaltern can get filled up, thus blocking you.

Cool. I sent my orders. Are we going to have a cast of characters post here?

Me too... is participation holding up?

We've got eight players ATM.

I am still waiting for one or two sets of orders.

I plan to introduce the characters naturally as they meet each other in the game.

As it happens, a lot of people are going to meet in the Royal Marines HQ.

Hopefully, not all disappointed . . .

I presume late entries are okay, if we got any new players? I just put word out to some friends who might be interested.

New players can join any time. It is too late for the first turn, however this is the kind of game you can join at any stage and have fun as long as there are several other characters with maybe 6 SL of you

It's not unusual for characters to die, either in duels or on campaign. New characters can by luck start with all the advantages of high birth or if they are plebs at least they can ascend SL fairly quickly.

Le Poireau Parisien de Decembre 1620


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Court and Social

The King was present at the test firing of his newest cannon, named Tonnant. It is a powerful piece discharging a ball rumoured to be of four pounds weight, with a range of over 500 yards.


The King wrote many commissions for young gentleman officers. His Majesty was heard to say that he would rather his hand become fatigued by signing commissions than by signing treaties to conciliate his enemies.


His Excellency the Cardinal Richelieu has proscribed the plays of Moliere as being obscene, irreligious and an affront to all right-thinking people.


Several of the best regiments recruited gentlemen this month, in preparation for possible engagement in the next year’s campaigns. Among other notable commissions, Mr. Jean-Michel Bael became Captain in the 13th Fusiliers. Subalterns were recruited to the following regiments: the Royal Marines, the Picardy Musketeers, Princess Louis’s Light Dragoons, and the 13th Fusiliers.


Around Town

A Mr. Alain Fortescue gambled intensely at Red Phillips in Week 3. Although his bets were not large, everyone agreed that his play was strategically sound. Unfortunately, the dice gods were against the bold player and he suffered some losses.


It is reported from the HQ of the Royal Marines, that a young man with a thick accent, probably not French, was turned away in Week One.


The servant of Cpt. Jean-Michel Bael of the 13th Fusiliers was seen to buy a large and expensive arrangement of flowers in Week 3. No doubt destined for the boudoir of a young lady!! Our reporter followed the Captain and his servant to the door of Ms. Bibi Roux in Rue des Capuchins, where the flowers were taken in by the maid, but the poor Captain was left on the steps outside!


Mr. Agramant Yves L'Angley, newly joined Subaltern in the Princess Louisa’s Light Dragoons, is said to have celebrated his commission by lifting his horse above his head! With such strong warriors in its ranks, the Royal Army cannot fail to press the claims of Our Royal Highness against the Walloons.


Entertainment houses in the Rue Pigalle were noted to be well attended by young officers this month.


Sport

A strange incident in the Rue du Soleil.

Mr. Bois, the celebrated half-Scottish, half-Louisianan, half-Haitian goffer, was seen to crash his carriage into a lamp post in the early hours of the morning, on the way out of his apartemente!!! His wife and servants were forced to smash the window of the carriage with goffing sticks, in order to rescue the unfortunate occupant.


Paris

The Constable of La Bastille has commanded the City Watch to pay particular attention to late night carriage drivers south of the Seine.


La France

Heavy rains and floods continued.


Huegenots of the Poitou region continued their abominable defiance of His Excellency the Cardinal’s appeals to convert to the True Faith. When will His Majesty see fit to send an army to suppress these rebels?


International

England: Religious persecution continues unabated in this benighted island. Not only are followers of the True Faith penalised under unfair laws. The worst of the protestants, called puritans, have been sent out of the island in a ship called the Mayflower. It is not known where they have travelled.


Des Autres


Un annuaire discret des femmes jolies, riches, influentes, et sans attaches*


SL --- Nom --- --- --- --- --- Joie? --- Riche? --- Influente?

15 --- La Comtesse ... ... ... .. N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N

14 --- Camille Dupont ... ... ... Y ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N

13 --- Delphine Artois ... ... ... N ... ... .. Y ... ... ... ... Y

13 --- Manon Bouvier ... ... ... Y ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N

12 --- Roxane Lambert ... ... ..N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N

12 --- Yasmine Moreau ... ... ..N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N

10 --- Olympe Prideau ... ... ...Y ... ... .. Y ... ... ... ... Y

9 ---- Ninon Girard ... ... ... ... N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... Y

6 ----- Bibi Roux ... ... ... ... ... N ... ... .. N ... ... ... ... N


*Information may not be entirely correct. The publisher takes no responsibility for problems arising from an error.


Business

Nantes Lace shares gained 25 Pistoles.


The Compagnie de Theatre Moliere reported strong demand for tickets and attracted a large investment of “Louis d’Ors”.


The East India Company is fitting out a fleet to sail in the Spring. Shares are now available on the usual terms.

Awesome. I particularly liked the carriage crash.

Just to confirm- is Cpt. Bael an officer of the 13th Fusiliers or the Picardy Musketeers? Your results email said the Musketeers, and the amount of Pistoles spent corresponds to the Musketeers.

I probably made a mistake.

It has been very confusing trying to match up Dakka names, character names, email addresses and email names.

Well, the conduct of the Royal Marines recruiters is absolutely shameful. Much better to be a Picardy Musketeer!

Hear hear!

Badmouthing the Royal Marines!?!

Poor form mon ami!

[Roland LeBlanc dusts off his newly purchased Royal Marines subaltern epaulets]

When toadying, the player gets SP equal to half the level difference. Do you round up or down?

Is weapons practice a separate week from the two of regimental service?

How do we know which regiments are unfriendly?

Sorry if I'm asking silly questions. Those tables baffle me.

How often do we have to perform regimental duties each month and what other orders can they be combined with? For example, can you order "Perform Regimental Duties. Visit bawdyhouse on way home."

Manchu wrote:Is weapons practice a separate week from the two of regimental service?

How do we know which regiments are unfriendly?

Sorry if I'm asking silly questions. Those tables baffle me.

The arrow links on the left are your friends the arrow links on the right are your enemies.

The Picardy Musketeers are friends with the 27th Musketeers and enemies with the 4th Arquebusiers

The Royal Marines are friends with prince leopold's cuirassiers (I mistakenly insulted them in my email and possibly caused your confusion by doing so! my apologies to this lovely regiment) and enemies of the 69th Arquebusiers.

No one likes those damnable soldiers who use an Arquebus. Get up to speed and use a musket like everyone else!

Weapon practice takes a week of actual free time -- it stops you from doing something else that week.

Regimental duties take a week of free time, or two if you are a private. Part of the advantage of being a Captain or above is no duties!

When one of your characters has to do duties, I roll automatically to see if he is excused but so far no-one has been lucky.

If you got lucky I would make your character do practice instead.

One of my jobs this week is to roll up the regimental structure and officers for each regiment a character has joined. This will show you if there are free officer slots to move up into. Once player characters start to get into the higher ranks they come into command of the lower characters and can excuse them their duties without a di roll.

It is a general rule for the game that decisions affecting characters are determined randomly unless a player character is in the position to make the decision himself. For example, a player character who is the Field Marshal of the Army can change the deployment of regiments to the summer campaign.

Decisions taken by non-player characters can often by affected by Influence. None of the player characters has any Influence yet.

Is there a deadline for January orders?


I was thinking about buying a higher command (Captain) but not sure if I can

The life on a hopelessly in debt Frenchman for me

Friday night/Saturday morning is the deadline for the next turn's orders.

People shouldn't be too worried about debt.

It can be an investment in reaching higher SL, which allows you to borrow more which allows you to pay off the earlier debt and extend your 6 month deadline.

The thing is to get up to SLs which give you a good chance of making money by campaigning, having lower SL characters toady to you, and getting military or government appointments.

So say I borrowed 100 pistoles in December due on June

If I borrow 200 more in February is 300 total due in June? or is that second amount due in August?

I was curious about duties too. Glad to hear being a Captain gives me such free time.

Toadying = being invited to the club of someone of higher social standing, yes?