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Fellow Fire and Fury fans, comments are welcome on this
update of the Fire and Fury Orientation checklist crafted by Tom Faulkner (tfaul@erols.com) and the Fire and Fury ListServ (fnf@pease1.sr.unh.edu).12/22/1999
Orientation that should be done before any
Fire and Fury scenario:
1. Charges.
a. Define contact (physical touching or within one inch).
b. Hasenauer has said that a flanked unit does not get a support DRM.
c. Unless itself is contacted, a field column cannot provide support.
d. LOS is not needed in order to initiate a charge.
e. Decide whether "Hold Ground" and a "Breakthrough" are
mutually exclusive. That is, while a strict reading of the rules would seem to allow a
brigade with a "Hold Ground" maneuver result to support a charging brigade (when
within 1" of a lead charging bde), some players find this undesirable; especially if
a rear brigade charges and passes through a front brigade just so the front brigade will
not have to roll for maneuver to participate. These players decided on a "house
rule" that any brigade that wants to be involved in a charge must roll on the
maneuver table and do better than "Hold Ground" to participate.
2. LOS rules (discuss).
a. Indirect fire.
i. Artillery.
ii. Musketry.
b. Leaders are the only units that can see more than 2" down a road
in the woods.
3. Terrain.
a. Rough terrain definition (e.g., all woods, or just dense woods).
b. Fords.
i. Specific location of fordable water.
ii. Movement cost per inch for the ford (shallow with no effect, or costly).
c. Impassable terrain.
d. How town/city terrain affects units.
4. Cavalry
a. Define whether mounting or dismounting constitutes a change of formation or a
mode change, e.g., whether a mtd field column can dismount into line and then move, OR
whether mtd cav can do a half-move at mtd rate and then dismount, respectively.
b. Whether dismtd cav can be supported by another brigade (including cav) or
provide support to other units.
c. Mtd Reb cav does NOT get the +1 Confederates charging DRM.
5. ANY house rules or specific scenario rules.
6. Optional rules.
a. Variable arrival time for reinforcements (page 14).
b. Time limits for each manuever phase (page 15).
c. Agreement on which of the scenario's optional rules to use, if any.
7. Victory determination.
8. Any other clarifying comments such as:
a. Command radius (LOS and 18" distance).
b. Detached leader movement occurs after all brigades and batteries have been
moved.
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