Re: [eia] French leader checks

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 01:37 PM 8/7/2006, you wrote:
>     Normally, the opponent rolls for leader casualties (or at least, that's
>the way we've always done it).
>     Is there a house-rule in place that says each leader present at a battle
>gets a *separate* roll to become a casualty?  I ask because that's not what
>the rules say to do.  (If it is a house rule, I have no problem with it,
>btw.  I actually think it makes sense.  But this would be one of those
>things that I was asking about a couple weeks ago.)
>
>kdh
Not that I'm aware of.  I believe they keep the one roll per battle rule to 
avoid having major generals dying all the time as that was very uncommon 
historically.  Up through brigade commanders it was not so uncommon to see 
a commander in the charge with his troops, but corps and army commanders 
were expected to be back with their staff controlling the battle as a whole 
and if someone was shooting them it was either a skilled sharpshooter 
infiltrating their lines or a really, really bad day for their army.

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