Ogniem i Mieczem - By Fire and Sword

Rules say that a unit cannot go within 2cm of an enemy unit unless it is charging. Other than that I would say that anyone trying to use the rules to enter a building that is beyond enemy troops without first fighting them shouldn't bother coming to play at my house.

If they could get to the house without going within 2cm of the enemy unit and without moving more than 10cm then maybe but it would be very difficult.

I have a new question, or at least one I haven't seen the answer for.
In the Muscovite skirmish box, if you compare it to the Muscovite skirmish lists.... it confused me.

I am not figuring out the 5FSP organization... I assume it uses the 1648-76 list....

For example... you get 2 border dragoon companies.... is a company 9 figures or 18 figures.... in the diagram... there are 2 "units" of 9 figures in the first row (2FSP)... is that one company and you get 2 of them?

Then... you get 18 servant Cossack sotnias... I get that... the cannon I get...
But then you have the mounted 18 servant sotnias.....

So, in the skirmish box set the mounted sotnias are really not "options" for mounted vs dismounted, but rather.. if you want the to maximize your FSP with the skirmish box set you would field the following:

Golova
2FSP: 2border dragoon companies (2 units of 9 figures each) and 2 dismounted Servant sotnias (9 figures ea)
3FSP: 2 border dragoon companies (2 units of 9 figures each)
5FSP: 9 mounted servant sotnias
6FSP: 9 mounted servant sontias

+1 FSP for the cannon....
For a total of 7 FSP

Is this correct unit fielding to maximize troops and FSP with the Muscovite skirmish box set?

This doesn't include any upgrades except the cannon at +1FSP.



In the end, all of the figures in the box set get used except the option you do not choose at at a cost of 6FSP

Any of BFaS skirmish box set doesn't allow you to filed full skirmish force (excluding limited edition skirmish sets: Gosiewski's Foray, Alexander Potiomkin's Force, Turkish Garrison of Raszków which are complete forces). In most cases box it's just the base (first level) of the skirmish force plus one more level/additional unit.

My question then becomes this....
In the base force, you can field 2 border dragoon companies....

is this 9 figures (3 bases) per company or 18 figures (6 bases) per company?

If you can field the level one requirement (2FPS).. does 2 border dragoon companies equal 18 or 36 figures?

The figures shown are one-on-one, so 18 figures. The description next to it is the description of what you get, so 2 companies of border dragoons. The last is important when deploying, since you place then one by one.

Hello,

we have some general problems to get the rule " beating the tatars..." straigt. In the first sentence it is said that you can spend 4 recce points for trying to choose terrain advantageous as described under point B of scenario preperation. Point B in the english rulebook is the comparison of FSP and on the index i cant find the term "terrain advantageous" anyway.

The onlything that could maybe fit would be the choise of terrain effect. So what did this rule exaclty do.

Second question is. The rule also gives me the opportunity to reroll missions, does this also coast 4 recce points and am i able to to both choose terrain advantegous for 4 points AND reroll mission dices?

Thanks.

Not sure of exact phrasing, but "trying to choose terrain advantageous" is a sort of fluff description. Actual rule only consists of ro-roll on scenario rolls

Small companies, effect limitations: Once per shooting unit, or once per shooting phase/subphase?
e.g. if three units shoot at a small companies unit, and each time one armor save is failed with a 0; does this mean six losses, or rather only four?

and a second question, that I asked in the beta thread before it disappeared: Is it possible to use countermarch and salvo alternately? I can hardly imagine this is rules as intended, yet as countermarch does explicitly not count as moving, in rules as working it is.

Small Companies: It seems tome that there is no limit. Every time (= phase) you roll for armor you can get additional losses. As all wounds/effects of a given phase are simultaneous in your example the unit would only receive 4 wounds.
But if every one of this three units would cause the wounds in different phases/stages (unit 1 in the Defenders Fire Stage, unit 2 in the Reaction Fire Stage and unit 3 in Close Combat) then your unit would receive 6 wounds.

To your second question: I don't think that it is intended that you can use both.
Salvo states that in the next round you can shoot only in the normal way (that's: no Countermarch) and that you can't Move or perform a Maneuver when doing so.