These stratagems can be ambushes, spying or a surprise attack before the enemy vanguard is properly deployed. Each scout allocated to subterfuge allows you to draw a card from a deck of stratagems (some of which are blank, meaning a wasted scout). After all have been placed, the scouts in each zone ‘fight’ and the winner gets to place a piece of terrain in that zone.
Scouts can also be allocated to subterfuge. Each player gets a number of scouts that they allocate alternately to the six 2′ square table zones (assuming a 6′ x 4′ table). It just may mean having bases that take 2 or 6 ‘hits’ regardless of number of figures.ĭeployment is a mini-game in itself. I don’t think this really matters much however.
Basing, incidentally, is 60mm squares for infantry (6 figures per base) and 50mm squares for cavalry (2 figures per base). In addition to the rules and lists there is a section giving a brief history of the Crusades, a description of an actual game and some other thoughts on battle size, other basing systems and even organising tournaments. Each page has a sidebar which provides some extra detail. The book is well set out, with the usual colour photos of 28mm figures.
However, there are good reasons for persevering in my opinion. I can understand this as the rules are perhaps not the easiest to just pick up and play. When I first looked for information on them, I noticed that there seemed to be more ‘first impressions’ reviews than reviews of actual games. Deus Vult is Fireforge Games’ rules set primarily aimed at the Crusades.
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