Thanks for your email. In response to your question, the method for working
out navy movement without food is the same as army movement without food -
and 1650 navies work just the same as the other two scenarios. In their
quest to be helpful, the game designers worded the original rulebook rather
awkwardly. They meant to say 'You will have AROUND 10 movement points' but
it did not come out that way. There has, unfortunately, been a lot of
problems with this wording, but subsequent versions of the 1650 rulebook now
read the same as the 2950 and 4th Age rulebooks. Let us know if you need
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So basically we can move a max of seven hexes with an unfed navy. Well then
I think that clears that up.
Thomas
Waiting for my next game...
>Laurence,
>
>Thanks for your email. In response to your question, the method for
working
>out navy movement without food is the same as army movement without
food -
>and 1650 navies work just the same as the other two scenarios. In their
>quest to be helpful, the game designers worded the original rulebook
rather
>awkwardly. They meant to say 'You will have AROUND 10 movement points'
but
>it did not come out that way. There has, unfortunately, been a lot of
>problems with this wording, but subsequent versions of the 1650 rulebook
now
>read the same as the 2950 and 4th Age rulebooks. Let us know if you need
>anything further.
>
>Good Gaming,
>Stuart
>
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NO! That's the point, the earliest 1650 edition says 10, and was according to Harlequin supposed to say "AROUND 10". We also hear that the latest US 1650 edition says 10. Apparently the rule has not changed.
I don't see how you get 10 if you round as you go. That's the essence of my question to them.
Where did you hear this? 7th edition has NOTHING about that.
What he was trying to say was that the "around 10" was simply
a general statement, not a rule, it was misprinted and
subsequently corrected. Similarly, I would suspect, this
"less that 75%" thing someone else has a real issue with.
Since every possible unfed movement permutation leaves the
army travelling "less than 75%" of what would otherwise have
been full movement, I suspect we may be reading tooooo much
into each character printed in the books.....no?
14 / 1 fed = 14
14 / (1.3333=2) unfed = 7
Cleared up. Now, shove off without the scones and tell us
where you end up.
