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    Dux Bellorum Campaign & Battle Rules For The Barbarian Conspiracy

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    The document outlines conventions for an upcoming wargame campaign between Roman and Barbarian forces. It specifies: - Army compositions and leadership points for both sides. The Romans can field one large army or two smaller armies, while the Barbarians field two armies. - Morale and leadership points will be combined for allied forces on each side. - Strategies and tactics can be purchased normally, with bonuses accrued through campaign events. - Several topics are yet to be agreed on, including army lists, aggression ratings, table size, deployment rules, and predefined terrain for map areas.

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    Dux Bellorum Campaign & Battle Rules For The Barbarian Conspiracy

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    The document outlines conventions for an upcoming wargame campaign between Roman and Barbarian forces. It specifies: - Army compositions and leadership points for both sides. The Romans can field one large army or two smaller armies, while the Barbarians field two armies. - Morale and leadership points will be combined for allied forces on each side. - Strategies and tactics can be purchased normally, with bonuses accrued through campaign events. - Several topics are yet to be agreed on, including army lists, aggression ratings, table size, deployment rules, and predefined terrain for map areas.

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    Campaign Rule notes for the Osprey wargame rules Dux Bellorum.

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    The document outlines conventions for an upcoming wargame campaign between Roman and Barbarian forces. It specifies: - Army compositions and leadership points for both sides. The Romans can field one large army or two smaller armies, while the Barbarians field two armies. - Morale and leadership points will be combined for allied forces on each side. - Strategies and tactics can be purchased normally, with bonuses accrued through campaign events. - Several topics are yet to be agreed on, including army lists, aggression ratings, table size, deployment rules, and predefined terrain for map areas.

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    Dux Bellorum Campaign & Battle Rules For The Barbarian Conspiracy

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    Neil Whitmore
    The document outlines conventions for an upcoming wargame campaign between Roman and Barbarian forces. It specifies: - Army compositions and leadership points for both sides. The Romans can field one large army or two smaller armies, while the Barbarians field two armies. - Morale and leadership points will be combined for allied forces on each side. - Strategies and tactics can be purchased normally, with bonuses accrued through campaign events. - Several topics are yet to be agreed on, including army lists, aggression ratings, table size, deployment rules, and predefined terrain for map areas.

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    Previously agreed conventions

    Forces

    Barbarians: two 24 point armies with 4 LPs each

    Romans: player dependant

    EITHER one 48 point force with 8LPs

    OR two 24 point forces with 4 LPs each. The second Roman player must choose at
    least one Noble unit, which will automatically be upgraded to Companion status.

    Morale

    The unit count for allied forces will be combined for morale purposes and each allied
    force will have a single combined morale value.

    Leadership points

    Each side will have a combined total of 8 LPs. Extra LPs may not be bought but will
    be accrued through campaign victory points.

    Strategies and Tactics

    These may be bought as normal but bonus strategies may be accrued through
    campaign events.

    Yet to be agreed conventions

    1) Lists

    Players must choose a single list to use throughout the campaign.

    Barbarians: Only one Raider force of each type is allowed in the campaign. For
    instance if the Saxons and Picts were fielded as Pict and Sea Raider, an Irish force
    entering the campaign later could be Irish or Land Raider. [This is mainly for variety,
    to avoid just having lots of Raider armies but using different figures.]

    Romans: The standard Roman force will be Comitatenses but the wall garrison will
    use the Limitanei list.

    2) Aggressor Ratings

    If we use the ratings from the book, the Romans can never be the Aggressor against
    Raiders and are unlikely to be the Aggressor against anyone else. As the campaign
    is meant to be a Roman re-conquest or counterattack, this seems a bit out of
    whack. The whole attacker / defender thing seems to be based upon the likely
    territory for a battle. Hence, in historical terms, the late Romans are usually on the
    defensive and get to pick the terrain as the battle will be on home turf. Neither of
    these principles applies in this case. In the campaign the Romans are essentially the
    attackers and, using our revised terrain system, both sides participate in the terrain
    placement.

    Hence, I suggest scrapping the Aggressor rating in favour of a more campaign


    based system. In this system the roles of Attacker / Repeller are diced for as normal
    but the rolls are NOT modified by Aggression ratings. Instead, as the campaign
    attackers, the Romans get a +1 modifier in the first game. In subsequent games the
    winner of the previous game gets the +1 modifier.

    3) Table size

    The standard table size will be 8 by 6 ft and the standard deployment area will be
    3BW (12") deep to facilitate deeper figure bases.

    4) Deployment

    Scenario deployment rules will be as per the book except Dawn Attack. In this
    scenario, the Aggressor deploys 3BW from the table edge not the centre.

    5) Terrain choice

    Each map area will have 6 predefined terrain pieces. In game terms this prevents the
    players just choosing their own preferred terrain. Otherwise I suspect most map
    areas will produce 3 woods and 3 hills. However, more importantly, in practical terms
    it allows us to gather all the required terrain pieces, for the whole campaign, in
    advance. In addition, the book scenarios have differing terrain requirements; in
    general High Walls, Villages and Rivers are not used unless specified in the
    scenario. Hence, I have removed these terrain types from the maps; instead these
    are bonus terrain items to be used only if specified by the scenario.

    1) Durobrivae
    3 hills, 3 woods
    2) Ermine Street
    2 Woods, 2 Hills, 1 marsh, 1 stream (occupies a single table sector and exits
    at a table edge within that sector)
    3) Eburacum
    2 Woods, 1 hill, 2 streams (occupies a single table sector and exits at a table
    edge within that sector), 1 marsh [the Vale of York is quite flat and floods a lot]
    4) The Wall
    3 Hills, 2 outcrops, 1 Wood [most of the wall region is very hilly]

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