SIFRP QUESTIONS

[Roland Stone]

The Erratas say:

Equipping Units (Addition); SIFRP, Page 173
At the end of the third sentence, add the following:

(Cavalry, Infantry, Mercenaries, and Personal Guards all carry shields).

Equipment Upgrades (Addition); SIFRP, Page 173
At the end of the paragraph, add the following:

Alternatively, you may spend 1 Wealth to equip a unit with shields, thus enabling certain advanced orders. Should you do so, the unit does not gain an increased to Fighting damage, but instead increases its armor rating by 2. Units that have shields (see above), cannot be upgraded in this way.

The consequence of this is that Archers with new-bought Shields have better armour rating than Infantry (who is supposed to have shields by default). That is as good as Infantry upgraded on armour, but without the bulk.
Other comparisons reveal similar flaws.
It seems to me that the units already having shields should have a higher Armor than given in the table, or the units without shields should have their Armor reduced or the shield bonus should be reduced.

[zebuleon]

on page 106 it says under type, top of page second column,

'A unit may spend its upgrades on any abilities available to all types.'

what is the cost of this and what is the upgrade? is it one point of Power for a +1D to an ability? or is it a point of Wealth like equipment?

[Irontruth]

The Erratas say:

Equipping Units (Addition); SIFRP, Page 173
At the end of the third sentence, add the following:

(Cavalry, Infantry, Mercenaries, and Personal Guards all carry shields).

Equipment Upgrades (Addition); SIFRP, Page 173
At the end of the paragraph, add the following:

Alternatively, you may spend 1 Wealth to equip a unit with shields, thus enabling certain advanced orders. Should you do so, the unit does not gain an increased to Fighting damage, but instead increases its armor rating by 2. Units that have shields (see above), cannot be upgraded in this way.

The consequence of this is that Archers with new-bought Shields have better armour rating than Infantry (who is supposed to have shields by default). That is as good as Infantry upgraded on armour, but without the bulk.
Other comparisons reveal similar flaws.
It seems to me that the units already having shields should have a higher Armor than given in the table, or the units without shields should have their Armor reduced or the shield bonus should be reduced.

A better question in my mind, is why do shields grant armor rating for units instead of a defensive bonus?

[zebuleon]

On pg 106, it says its possible to build units with 2 or mores types.

is there a limit/restrictions to the number or combination of types?

or are Elite Raiding Crusader Mounted Archer Scouts 24(6) really doable?

or is commonsense the only rule for this.

[Allavandrel]

Page 108, under 'Special':

The last sentence reads "Since these units have specialized training, they are the most expensive to field".

However, Table 6-8 shows Special units have a Power Cost of +4, which is similar to Infantry, Sailors, and Crusaders, and they cost less than Cavalry, Personal Guards, and Warships.

I guess Special units should either have a Power Cost of +5 or the last sentence should be deleted.


Thanks for a brilliant game!
Allavandrel

[Allavandrel]

Page 108, under 'Warships':

Should Warships have the same note as Personal Guard:

Special: A commander or sub-commander can attach himself to a personal guard/warship unit and retain the ability to issue orders.

As the rules stand, we have some trouble placing the commander (admiral) in a realistic position, so that she still is able to issue orders. Alone in a rowing boat in the midst of a naval battle doesn't seem like the best place to be for an admiral.

[Allavandrel]

Page 210, under 'Bandit':

Bandit statistics should be revised according to the new revision of Hide armor.

Table 9-2; SIFRP, Page 151 (Revision)
Hide armor should have AP −3 and Bulk 3.

[phild]

On pg 106, it says its possible to build units with 2 or mores types. is there a limit/restrictions to the number or combination of types? or are Elite Raiding Crusader Mounted Archer Scouts 24(6) really doable?

To me, the answer is "Yes, it's possible" followed swiftly by "But why the hell would you bother?". You get an experienced Cavalry unit; Archer adds ranged capability (tho by my reckoning, their weapon is a long bow and thus not usable unless dismounted). Crusader and Scouts adds nothing except for what skills you can invest in.

Although it does highlight another big issue in the Warfare section: a cavalry unit represents 20 troops, an infantry unit represents 100. Therefore cavalry are 5 times hardier and 5 times more damaging than infantry (as they don't suffer any health or damage penalties). When a Cavalry Archer uses it's bows, do they divide all damage dealt by 5? Or do they have extra sharp magic arrows as well?!

(My solution is to ignore this: a cavalry unit is 100 horsemen)

[phild]

Does Armour Mastery affect the requirement in Water Dancer III to wear armour with Bulk 0? I.e. does wearing Bulk 1 armour with Armour Mastery (Bulk -1) allow the Water Dancer III benefit to apply?

[Allavandrel]

Page 119 under "Wage Wars".

What exactly happens when you choose "Wage Wars" as your House Action?

[Allavandrel]

Page 29 under Failure.

The text says "Any time danger is involved and you fail the test by 5 or more, you may suffer a Critical failure...".

This rule must apply in combat, but it deviates from the Fumbles rules (Page 165), which say that "A Fumble occurs whenever the dice come up all 1s on a test roll".

Do both rules apply in combat or do one of them need to be revised to match the other? The risk for fumbling seems to be very small even for a character with Fighting 3.

[Roland Stone]

Page 119 under "Wage Wars".

What exactly happens when you choose "Wage Wars" as your House Action?

My humble opinion about what this rule means:
When you are in an outright war, the important people from the house are busy with the war issues, likely too busy to do other house actions.
So, when you are in a "real" war, managing it eats up your House Action.

I guess it is up to the Narrator to decide when something is "just a police action" or a full-sized "war" against a significant foe, or what penalty applies if you fight a war without Waging War.

Other than that, nothing unexpected would happen. You play as expected, you move your House's troops, engage enemies in Warfare battles (or avoid them), Intrigue for allies or support, maybe do some covert ops.

[Roland Stone]

Maybe I am missing something, but the use of some Abilities of Units are not clear to me.
How does a unit use Knowledge or Survival or Healing within the rules? Why bother raising them, for units that can do so?

[Roland Stone]

What is "a unit's shield rating" on page 180, for the "Defend" order?

[Roland Stone]

Is it intended that Scout units, even Elite Scouts, are totally incompetent at spotting ambushes? Would that not be an essential part of their role? Why is it that Awareness is not one of their Key Abilities?

[RJS]

addressed 5/25

[Allavandrel]

Page 177, under "Concealed Units", line 4.

Replace "Perception" with Awareness.

[Allavandrel]

Page 119, under "Host Tournaments", in Table under "Regional".

Should the last line read "... plus 2 Wealth as a prize for each contest ..."?

[ceck]

pag 169 In the table with weapons reach (last table of Combat chapter pag 169), the mace is missing. Has it reach 0? Also the first is missing...probably substituded with "Unarmed".



Luca

[Allavandrel]

Page 199, Table 11-7:

The chance to succeed against a Very Hard (18) difficulty with 7 ranks is about 93-94%, not 98%.

[Allavandrel]

Page 211, under Boar:

Gore 3D+1B

[ceck]

pag 160
Assist action (already revised)
In a combat can I both assist (lesser) and make a standard attack?

Luca

[ceck]

pag 155 Does the extra damage due to a weapon "powerful" attribute apply to the weapon base damage or is it applied after myltiplying by the degree of success?

Luca

[ceck]

pag 75
Anointed quality
Why should a noble need to have a sponsor to become an annointed knight?
Does this sponsor prerequisite really make sense?

Thanks

Luca

[Aran MacFiona]

pag 75
Anointed quality
Why should a noble need to have a sponsor to become an annointed knight?
Does this sponsor prerequisite really make sense?

Thanks

Luca

Because you need another knight to make you a knight. You can't make yourself a knight except if you're Dunk with an Egg at your side.