Cadet Commander

CADET COMMANDER

The second game from Partizan/Cranwell. Actually this one might be more useful in lots of ways - I can see me using for the war of  1897. Also now updated on pages.

GAME OUTLINE

Each figure controls a group of warriors and their leader. At the edge of the board in the centre nearest the player is their band’s flag. The winner is the first player to score 10 victory points OR capture the other player’s flag.

 THE PLAY SCOREBOARD

Your play board is used to tell the different fighting skills and strengths of your figures, and to keep track of points that you win and the strength that any of your figure lose.

                                                                              

THE PLAY AREA

The play area is 2’ x 2’ and is marked out in hexagons. Each hexagon represents one movement action.

No more than two figures may be in any one hexagon at the end of a figure’s activation phase. If there are more than two figures, the last figure to enter the pace has to move back to the space it came from. This is a free move and does not require an action. If this is not possible it must move into any other allowable space (ie with no enemy and no more than one other figure). If this is not possible it leaves the game and goes home to mum in a sulk (but does not lose any of its strength). In this case the other player does not get any additional Victory Points.

GAME SET UP

Place the teams’ flags in or near the centre of each baseline. Each player lines his figures up in one of the baseline spaces (up to 2 in each space).

THE TURN

During each turn a player may try to activate any or all of their figures to make them carry out actions.

The first figure to be activated is your leader, who is activated automatically. You may then choose one other figure to get an automatic activation next.

After this, dice for each figure you wish to activate. To do this, throw a D6 – anything other than a one allows you to activate one figure. If you throw a 1 your turn is over (sorry….).

During an activation, a figure can carry out up to two actions:

Move – up to 1 hexagon in any direction.

Have a punch up 

Rest – to get its strength back (counts as two actions)

MOVEMENT

Each model may move up to one hexagon in any direction in each action (so can move a maximum of two hexagons using both of its actions if it wishes).

If a figure crosses a wall or fence, wades through a river or spends any of its action in a woods, its uses one of its actions.

A figure can be in or pass through a hexagon containing one of its own friendly figures but no more than two figures are allowed in any hexagon at the end of its activation.

If a figure enters a hexagon with as enemy figure it must stop and have a punch up with him. If there are two enemy figures in the space the moving player may choose which is involved in the punch up.

PUNCH UPS

Each figure has an attack value (ATK) which tells you how good they are at fighting, and a Strength value (STR) which tells you how tough they are. Once a figure runs out of STR it is too tired to carry on and is removed from the board.

Each attacking figure rolls a number of dice equal to its ATK value. For most figures this is 2, for your leader or any heroes it is 3. Choose one of the dice to see what happens to your enemy:

Oh Dear	Poor show – no effect
Run away…	Moves 1 hexagon back towards his flag*
Ouch	Loses one token from his STR score
Hit and Run	Loses one token from his STR score and moves 1 hexagon back towards his flag*

*If a figure cannot move towards his flag because the hexagon(s) is already occupied by two figures, or if he is forced back into a river hexagon he moves into any other hexagon the he can and loses one from his STR.

*If a figure has to move 1 hexagon away from you and this causes him to go off the board, he goes home to mum and is removed from play.

*If a figure has to move away, the attacking figure can follow up and stay in contact if he wishes (providing this does not mean that here are more than 2 figures in the same hexagon).

Punch ups across walls or hedges.

If you attack a figure who is behind a wall or hedge or other sport of protection, your attacking figure only rolls one less die, not the usual number indicated by his ATK value.

REST

If your figure takes a rest action it can get some of its strength (STR) back. A  figure can never have more strength that it started with. A rest counts as two actions so the figure cannot carry out any other activity this turn.

SCORING POINTS

Each time one of your attackers causes an enemy to lose STR points, you score a Victory point. Mark these on your score board.

There may also be other ways of scoring victory points during some of the specific game scenarios.

WINNING THE GAME

The winner is the first player to reach 10 Victory points OR to capture the other player’s flag.

To capture the other player’s flag one of your players must be in the same hexagon as the flag with none of the other player’s figures in the same hexagon at the end of the other player’s turn.

 

What you will need:

·         2 bands of soldiers

·         2 flags

·         2 Play Scoreboards

·         6 ATK dice (3 for each player – with 2 faces “Oh Dear”, 2 faces “Run away”, one face “Ouch” and one face “Hit and run”.)

·         2’x2’ board marked I n3” hexagons

·         Some scenery

·         An opponent

And.. to be ready to have fun.