BKC-IV QRS & Optional Rules

Started by Leon, 04 April 2019, 02:40:40 AM

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Leon

04 April 2019, 02:40:40 AM Last Edit: 27 March 2023, 10:31:06 PM by Leon
Below you can find a variety of support downloads for use with the Blitzkrieg Commander IV rules.

Quick Reference Sheet - HERE


Over the years there have been a variety of house rules developed for BKC-IV, so we've compiled the most popular ones into a series of Optional Rules documents.  We'll continue to add to these over the coming weeks so keep checking back for more!

General Rules - HERE
(Includes Commanders, Static Hits, Auto-Suppression and Removing Suppressions)

Artillery & Off-Table - HERE
(Includes Defensive Smoke, Final Defensive Fire, Reduced Artillery Fire-Zones and Rolling Barrage)

Deployment & Formations - HERE
(Includes Hidden Deployment and Fixed Formations)

Weather & Terrain - HERE
(Includes Weather, Alternative Terrain Rules, Random Terrain Generator, Command Posts, Night Fighting, Perilous Terrain and Vehicles & Blocking Roads)

Mother Russia - HERE
Allows you the use of massed artillery concentrations, which Russian armies used to create major tactical breakthroughs or to destroy massing enemy forces.

Armoured Riverboats - HERE
Allows the use of armoured riverboats, opening up all kinds of interesting scenarios!

Armoured Trains - HERE
Adding both Improvised and Purpose-Built armoured trains to your games!

Japanese Banzai - HERE
One for the Pacific gamers, allowing you to throw the kitchen sink at your opponent with a Japanese Banzai attack!

Resource Bases - HERE
Add an extra element of detail and work particularly well in multi-player games where they can be used to represent objectives for game scenarios or can allow a force to recover destroyed units between games.

Civilian Refugees - HERE
Fleeing or retiring civilians played a major role in affecting an armed engagement and these additional rules make for some really interesting games.

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petercooman

Good show!!

Will print later on and have a look!!

Steve J

Thanks for these Leon, with some interesting stuff in there, plus the other oprional rules look interesting :).

T13A

Hi Leon

These look really good, can't wait till next week!

Cheers Paul
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jaztez

Small request.

If you formatted the qrs with two columns you could easily fit it all into two sheets rather than four, so we could have a simple 2 sided qrs.
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PeterRushton

18 April 2019, 12:41:11 PM #7 Last Edit: 18 April 2019, 12:42:45 PM by PeterRushton
Quote from: jaztez on 18 April 2019, 10:34:23 AM
If you formatted the qrs with two columns you could easily fit it all into two sheets rather than four, so we could have a simple 2 sided qrs.

No need to do anything, this can easily be done when printing the PDF - just specify 2 pages per printed sheet. :)

jaztez

Then it's too small, it could be redesigned easily rather than fudging things.
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Big Insect

Much pre-printing debate went on about this one  :D

My thoughts were that it had to be 2 or 4 pages - as I always print mine out and laminate them back to back.

Let us have a look at a more utilitarian 2 page variant - with less of the 'house style' spacing - and see if we can achieve.

I'm now of an age where stuff with too small a print drives me nuts - so apologies this might be my personal preference coming through.

Mark
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Leon

We did a lot of adjusting to pare down what we had to the 4-page doc, so I don't think it would all fit onto 2 pages, even squashing the layout and playing with the font size.  It's the larger text items like the Blunder tables and the modifier explanations that cause the problems so we'd need to find a way of reducing those down while keeping them understandable!
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Solo General

These Optional Rules keep getting better and better. Excellent work! 

Dr Dave

Refugees - the opt out for SS should also apply to their FAO and FACS as well. In fact any German FAC - Luftwaffe targeted refugees to aid clogging of roads etc.

Big Insect

Thanks Solo General - we had the Australian play-test group run the Refugee rules testing and they found they worked pretty well.

Glad you are enjoying them.

Mark
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Big Insect

Hi Dr Dave

Any troops can target refugees - it's just whether they get penalized for doing so or not.

I made a decision that the rule might be construed as contentious as it was, without making it more so by allowing more exemptions.
Soviets also had no real compunction about ordering units to run down their own civilians if they got in the way, or of ordering infantry into combat only armed with sticks (the Brit were at least a little better in suggesting that the Home Guard was armed with pikes and actually ordering the pike heads to be manufactured!). I am pretty sure there are other examples of troops being ruthless or brutal towards either their own or enemy or even neutral refugees, but I wanted to set some limits.

If you want to get your German FAO or FAC to target refugees, you can always give them a +1 command bonus from your Recce units communications, which might help with the deduction they will face for doing so.
Or maybe just roll a d6 each time they target refugees and on a roll of a 1 - they are shot by their own troops in disgust ... lots of options to play with  :o
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