"General d’Armee question" Topic

I am new to the rule set but I have a question. What is the value of keeping a brigade in reserve either on or off table? I can't find any advantage to doing so other than just leaving the brigade where it is on the board or unless it's scenario driven. I feel like I'm missing something. I appreciate any help in advance. Hosting my first game next week.

You always need to have reserves to either exploit a hole in the enemy's line or plug one in yours.

Jim

Having never played the rules in question, I would say it is always better to have reserves on the table and hopefully have them in a position to be support wherever needed.

Col, I certainly understand in the real world military importance of reserves, but am trying to understand the rule significance. Why would I want to have a brigade an official reserve mode which requires extra activation versus just having the brigade sitting idle. I love the concept of stressing reserves I'm just trying to understand where it fits in the rules. I feel, again, as if I'm missing something.

Hello,
General D'Armee foresees for each committed Brigade to be assigned a position in the battle line. Essentially you need to declare where this brigade will be fighting respect to others.

The way I have interpreted the use of reserves is that by putting a brigade in reserve, you will declare its position only when you will commit it to battle.

To redeploy Brigades costs a lot in terms of ADCs and it may be convenient to hold some brigades in reserve, to commit where and when needed.

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We have tried this mechanism in this game, it worked very nicely, felt historical !

Cheers,
Stefano

Stefano, that makes sense. Thank you.

Cheers
Rob