Pub Battles Unit Quality How to Play

How does Unit Quality influence Combat in Pub Battles? This video gives you a little more detail on how this works.

[@smat2899]

Nice job ! Il like the detachement : more fog of war and able to fight. You never know if you fight strong Guards or poor militias. I should have a better understanding with the Austerlitz Pub battles game !!!! ;-)

[@CommandPostGames]

Yes, they are really going to shine there!

[@mikestrand3023]

Great coverage! A critical thing to note is that most Battles only last one round. Elites are almost always still there for the second round, militia almost never are.

[@johnbethel9078]

Mike in the second round would the Elite bonus apply again?

[@captainnolan5062]

@@johnbethel9078It would appear that the bonus would NOT apply in the second round. I am looking at the Pub Battles Rules 3.0, and on page 8 under unit quality it states that elite units absorb the first hit "in a combat" (not in a round). Thus, having already absorbed the first hit in round one, they would get no further bonus during that "combat."

[@captainnolan5062]

Hits from artillery, if they reduce a unit, do carry over into combat (is this correct?). For example if the artillery bombarded a regular infantry and caused a hit (so the infantry was flipped to spent), then that result does carry over to combat (if the regular spent unit is attacked in the same turn) and the unit remains in its spent state during the ensuing combat.

[@CommandPostGames]

correct.

[@captainnolan5062]

Interesting that you call the blank block a "detachment", and the rules (3.0) call them " disbursed troops." I much prefer the label "detachment" as it makes it clear what the unit represents. I think of "disbursed troops" as troops who have suffered some combat effect or are in some kind of difficult terrain (like heavy woods).

[@CommandPostGames]

Yeah we went through about 4 different names for them, trying to find the one that caused the least confusion. The 3.2 rules updated that. We will send you a pdf of them if you email us!

[@captainnolan5062]

@@CommandPostGames I have e-mailed you.

[@CommandPostGames]

@@captainnolan5062 I double checked. I don't see anything from you. Make sure you have our correct address.

[@CommandPostGames]

Ah. I found it. It ended up in my spam folder. :/ It never blocks spam. All it does it put half of my regular emails in there at random. There ought to be a way to just turn it off.

[@captainnolan5062]

@@CommandPostGames I sent you two more e-mails today (5-27-2023). You might have to "unblock" me or tell your spam folder that my e-mails are not spam.