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A second characteristic is strength, or its inverse, attrition. Attrition represents the
percentage casualties the brigade has suffered. Once a brigade reaches 60% attrition, or
is reduced to 40% strength, it is destroyed as a fighting force, and in the case of a brigade,
its surviving soldiers are transferred to other brigades in the legion, if any. If the legion
consisted of a single brigade or company, it is destroyed.
The third is experience. Brigades range in experience from lowest to highest as follows:
Experience
Defense Modifier
Green
85%
Regular
100%
Experienced
105%
Veteran
110%
Old Guard
120%
Elite
130%
Renowned
140%
Legendary
150%
The fourth is speed. Lighter and mounted troops have higher speeds than heavy and foot
troops. Speed is important in many tactics and in withdrawing from combat. Experience
effects speed as well as defense. Generally, green troops may lose a speed rating (for
example, an Average speed brigade with regular experience troops may drop to a Slow
speed rating if its warriors are of green experience. Elite brigades generally will have
increased its speed rating over that of the same kind of brigade with regular experience
warriors.
Legions
Legions. Each player will field legions to defeat his foes in the field and to conquer
population centers. Each kingdom begins the campaign with
five legions it can field. During the campaign a kingdom which
gains control of a region gains the use of an additional legion.
So a kingdom gaining control of its first region would have a
sixth legion available to it. If the kingdom gains control of a
second region and now controls two regions, a seventh legion
would become available.
The smallest possible legion size is a patrol. This is a unit of only the leaders and
wizards of a legion, together with a dozen hand picked warriors from the legion. Patrols
are always considered to be on horseback.
Here then are the legion sizes that are reported by most forms of reconnaissance that are
not supplied by agents (agent recons are more detailed and accurate). In all cases they
may include leaders and other characters.
Patrol:
up to about 20 warriors
Brigade:
one or two brigades (up to about 4000 warriors)
Division:
three to five brigades (up to about 10,000 warriors)
Army:
two divisions, so six to ten brigades (up to 20,000 warriors)
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