Re: [eia] French leader checks

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm also against the proposed house rule.  As a side note though, the EIA
campaigns starting in 1812 and 1815 are missing leaders who left the scene
for reasons other than battle wounds (Massena and Kutusov come to mind).  I
suppose those would be "random event cards" in a different sort of game...

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gorman" <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [eia] French leader checks


> At 09:19 AM 8/8/2006, you wrote:
> >     Thanks for this historical survey Joel.  Your statistics show pretty
> >clearly that leader death/casualties in this game are historically low.
I
> >would be in favor of a house rule that says you roll leader casualties
for
> >*each* leader present at a battle (as Mike and Bill recently did for
their
> >battle).  That would increase the odds somewhat, getting them closer to
> >historical reality.
>
> I rolled once for each battle, I just had one leader at each battle since
I
> have a lot of things going on.  I would strongly oppose this rule as it
> would increase leader death probabilities to much greater than they ought
> to be and as the game makes no rules for promotion of new leaders it would
> encourage events that would seriously skew the balance points of the game.
>
> Right now you have ~0.5% chance to have someone of a rank of at least
major
> general, or their national equivalent, die in a given battle.  That is
> already a high percentage.  You also have ~3% chance of someone of that
> rank being seriously wounded and that is an incredibly high chance.  If
> real armies had been that poor at guarding their headquarters, large
> military formations would never have been possible.
>
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