To Be King Recruiting Rolls Question

[atomicfloozy]

How do you decide how many recruiting rolls to use in building armies?

Example: I have 2 opposing Valkae armies - each start with 7 units. For larger forces do I just pick a number for recruiting rolls, such  as 13, which would give each army 20 units?

I'm a little confused on the army building aspect. I'd like to build a couple of fairly large armies for a campaign.

If I wanted the possibility of the 2 armies being of unequal sizes, would you do something like base army + 1d6 recruiting rolls?

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

RECRUITING ROLLS

How many Recruiting Rolls the Nation has if it has not lost or won a war. Win a war and they go up; lose a war and they go down.

RECRUITING THE ARMIES

Each Nation receives one Basic Army, the units in the left-hand column of its Army List. Each Nation is also entitled to purchase additional units by using its Recruiting Rolls



You start with the basic army in the left-hand column of the army list.

Then roll the recruiting rolls.

If you're having  Civil War (page 45)

CIVIL WAR

The throne can be yours. Here’s how we do it:

• This occurs in the following Spring.

• Split the Basic Army in half, rolling 1d6 for the odd extra one, high score getting it.

• Split the Recruiting Rolls in half, rolling 1d6 for the odd extra one, high score getting it.

• Build the Armies including roll up an opposing CinC with War Rating.

• Roll 1d6:

• (1, 2 or 3) = You are the Attacker.

• (4, 5 or 6) = You are the Defender.

• Set up the table and have at it.

• You win, you are King or Queen.

• You lose, leave the Nation, and become the CinC in another Army.

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

Aug 30, 2021 2:00:18 GMT atomicfloozy said:

How do you decide how many recruiting rolls to use in building armies? See next message.

Example: I have 2 opposing Valkae armies - each start with 7 units. For larger forces do I just pick a number for recruiting rolls, such  as 13, which would give each army 20 units? See farther down.

I'm a little confused on the army building aspect. I'd like to build a couple of fairly large armies for a campaign.

If I wanted the possibility of the 2 armies being of unequal sizes, would you do something like base army + 1d6 recruiting rolls?

If same country  take the number of Recruiting Rolls and roll 1d6 for each. 1, 2 or 3 goes to side A. 4, 5 or 6 to side B.

Or

Take number of current recruiting rolls.
Divide by basic army number.
Multiply it by the number of basic units you want, this gives you the number of Recruiting Rolls.

 Or do it the way you want.  

[atomicfloozy]

Yeah, the recruiting rolls finally clicked when I go to page 40.

It's not really a civil war. If Valkae follows the model of Ancient Greece, the city-states are independent and there really isn't a unified Valkae as one nation, just like the Greeks. The rare times the Greeks United as a single body was to repel the Persian invasions & to a lesser degree when Phillip of Macedonia invaded Greece.

I decided to start small & each side has the basic army & each side got 4 recruiting rolls. So each side has a small army of 11 units.

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

It's your game and that's the way to do it.