Revision Plan

[Katdoral]

Propositions:

As it is now:
Unit Type
Total Melee
Total Missile
Total Hits
total Move
Total Morale
Defense
Missile Defense
Charging Melee Bonus

Advanced Trainings:
Melee
Missile
Defense
Morale

Specializations:
Berserk
Scout
Shield Formation
Toughness

Experience Level:
Green
Standard
Veteran

Armor Type:
None
Light
Medium
Heavy

Muster Cost

Maint. Cost

Changes Proposed:
Remove most of these stats, as they are somewhat unnecessary under the new system, and replace with the following:

Unit Type:

Archer 4 VP
Artillerist 7 VP
Cavelry 5 VP
Infantry 2 VP
Irregular 1 VP
Pikemen 3 VP


Unit Size: Is the actual number of individuals in any given unit. VP's = total individuals divided by 12, rounded down.

Unit Magic: Describes the number of magic items used within that unit. There are 5 catagories for this. 1) None. 2) Any of significance. (+1 VP) 3) 2% of soldiers have magic items. (+2 VP) 4) 3% of soldiers have magic items. (+3 VP) 5) 11% of soldiers have magic items. (+5 VP)

Equipment Quality: The quality of non-magical items a unit is outfitted with. There are 3 catagories. 1) Poor. (-2 VP) 2) Average. (+/- 0 VP) 3) Masterwork. (+2 VP)

Unit experience: This is a number between 1 and 20, 1 being the lowest level and 20 being the highest. (VP = current experience)

Unit Discipline: The level of discipline within the unit, there are 4 catagories. 1) Mob. (-2 VP) 2) Trained. (+/- 0 VP) 3) Disciplined. (+1 VP) 4) Highly Disciplined. (+2 VP)

Unit Armor Class: There are 6 catagories. 1) <9. (-2 VP) 2) 10 to 12. (+/- 0 VP) 3) 13 to 15. (+1 VP) 4) 16 to 18. (+2 VP) 5) 19 to 21. (+3 VP) 6) 22 and above. (+4 VP)

Unit Base Attack: There are 7 catagories. 1) 1 to 3. (+1 VP) 2) 4 to 7. (+2 VP) 3) 8 to 11. (+3 VP) 4) 12 to 14. (+4 VP) 5) 15 to 19. (+5 VP) 6) 20 to 25. (+6 VP) 7) 26 and above. (+8 VP)

Average Movement: There are 6 catagories. 1) <10. (-3 VP) 2) 10'. (-2 VP) 3) 20'. (-1 VP) 4) 30'. (+/- 0 VP) 5) 40'. (+1 VP) 6) 50'. (+2 VP)

Leadership: The level of competence of captains, lieutants, and other command staff. There are 7 catagories. 1) 3 to 9. (-2 VP) 2) 10 to 11. (+/- 0 VP) 3) 12 to 13. (+1 VP) 4) 14 to 15. (+2 VP) 5) 16 to 17. (+3 VP) 6) 18 to 19. (+4 VP) 7) 20 and above. (+5 VP)

Victory Points: Victory points are the measure by which we determine how effective any unit is. The higher this number, the more effective it is overall. One simply needs to add up all of the above. The system allows for easy tracking of additional modifiers not covered above.

Muster Cost: The muster cost of a unit is it's desired Total Victory Points multiplied by 222 (In gold pieces)

Maint. Cost: This is the part I'm sure everyone will love. The maint. cost is simply the muster cost divided by 25, rounded down. Which means, in most situations the main. cost will be much lower then it is currently.

Muster Time: This number represents how long it will take for any unit, either at initial muster or due to training, will take to complete. It is determined by dividing the muster cost by 1000, rounding down, to represent the number of turns. In the case of training, simply subtract the current muster from the expected new muster due to the training, and then calculate time.

I've been working on this while at the hospital with my mom, so feel free to bring up any concerns or questions you may have.

[Katdoral]

As listed above, this proposition has 2 primary objectives.

1) It allows for regents to customize their units with a greater focus on unit roles.

2) It provides the GM a method with which they can compare units against each other and reasonably determine the outcome of a battle without actually having to run said combat.

To aid this, I found a piece of software that was meant to run mass combats and with some modifications to the code have engineered it to plug in the victory point values and then can simulate, well, as many combats between two opposing forces as one would like, for testing I was using 10,000.

There are dozens of other situational modifiers like:

Doesn't have any missile troops left -2 VP
Higher ground or advanageous terrain +1 to +3 VP
defending stronghold +5 to +15 VP
defender "dug in" +1 VP
Two or more siege engines vs stronghold +1 to +5 VP
anti-infantry artillery +1 VP
ambush +1 VP
extreme temperature, exposed -2 to -1 VP
dehydration -3 to -1 VP
malnutrition -1 VP
starvation -3 to -2 VP
disease -3 to -1 VP
disadvantageous situation (lighting, weather, etc.) -3 to -1 VP
every three defeats in one year -1 VP
every five victories in one year +1 VP
major leader killed in last month -2 VP
50% of troops possess special feat +1 VP
special units +1 to +4 VP
tactics +1 to +4 VP
fatigue -20 to +0 VP
cavalry +1 to +10 VP

[Katdoral]

All of the above has been incorporated. Also included is one additional change to the regency system. Now, there is a limit to the number of individuals any province can levy for military usage. Below is the formula to calculate this:

Undeveloped areas can still "generate" a number of possible levies.

Each holding type (Law, Guild, Temple, and Source) has 10 slots available, each, in any given province. These slots can generate levies as follows:

All: Current Province Level * 5

Developed Areas generate levies based on their type:

Law: Law Holding Level * 2000
Guild: Guild Holding Level * 250
Temple: Temple Holding Level * 1000
Source: Source Holding Level * 750

As an example, Lets use a level 5 province with a level 4 law holding. First off, there are 1,000 units available from undeveloped areas. (25 * 10) * 4. In addition to this, there are 8,000 from the law holding. (4 * 2000), for a total of 9,000 total levies possible.

Now, lets say some unit somewhere has taken some losses. Levies generate replacements based on their Current Province Level * 10 per turn. (Remember, a turn constitutes a 3 month period.) So, in the above example, a level 5 province can generate 50 replacement troops in a turn.

Replacing units has no associated costs, however, the unit must fit the following criteria:

1) They must be, at the start of the turn, within a friendly holding.
2) the province that contains above holding has to be either A) controlled by the player or B) have the permission of the province's owner to replace losses.


All of this is, unfortunately, necessary as the new mass combat system allows for the creation of units with specific numbers of individuals, whereas the old system simply assumed that the number of creatures within a unit was equal to whatever an EL 15 encounter would support.