Rules > House Rules

Here are some house rules that we use at my local hobby shop:

• Backup rule - any unmounted unit may move backwards at half speed, and may not march while backing up. Any mounted unit may backup at quarter speed, and may not march while backing up.
• No auto kill weapons - no magic weapons which instantly kill (slay,destroy, etc.) may be used
• No magic weapons over 50 points may be used
• Declare all shooting first - before any dice are rolled or measurements made in the shooting phase, all units/characters that are shooting must be declared. This rule eliminates situations that arise when two cannons are next to eachother. The first cannon is fired and the measurement is made. This measurement is used to help guess the second range. This would be unrealistic, because all shooting is supposed to happen at the same time.
• This rule was mentioned, but is not always used: If a unit is behind a wall or other source of hard cover, allocate cannon shots fired at them in this manner: roll a D6. 1-3 wall is hit by cannon ball and takes damage from the cannon as normal (cannon ball is stopped by the wall). 4-6 cannon ball travels over the wall as normal and may hit the unit as normal
• Color magic may be used by Empire wizards instead of the normal Battle Magic deck.

by Patrick Russell