Generic D10 based wargames rules

A Hundred Wars V2

Rationale

In search of a simple yet effective generic combat simulator? This isn’t it, but it’s better than nothing. With these rules you should be able to play any scale, troop-scale, ground-scale, time-scale, basing, and period or genre figures against any others. They don’t need to be organised to the same conventions.  It’s up to you to buy unit factors that reflect your idea of how things should be. Sample units are suggested later. Die rolls are always made with d10. If there are any decimal fractions, round scores up to nearest whole number.

Units

All figures are grouped into units. Units can comprise as few or as many figures as you wish.

All units have factors. These are – Move, Fire, Range, CQB, and Armour

Units may have several different Move modes for different modes of travel. Units may have several Fire and Range values to reflect various weapon combos.

In addition, units may have specialisms such as Orders for command units, ECM for ECM units, Psi for Psionic units etc. Units designated as large are considered to be one elevation higher for shooting and shooting at.

Groups

Friendly Units in base to base contact are called groups. These will follow the same orders, move together and fire at the same targets when possible.  When factors differ either use a separate roll for the differing units or use the lowest unit factor in the group.

For example - a unit of tanks are escorted by infantry. Although the tanks are faster, use the infantry Move factor to keep the group together. When firing, you will want the extra firepower of the tanks to make a difference, so use separate Range and Fire factors.

Blinds

Each unit or group is represented by a token or blind. Spare pips can be used to bring new blinds onto the table each turn. These may represent real or imagined units or groups and must be replaced with the real units or groups if they received a successful attack, are contacted by enemy units or groups or blinds or, removed if they are imaginary.

Pips

Pips are rolled for at the beginning of each player’s turn.

Pips can be used to send, change or remove a move marker on a unit or group or bring a new blind onto the home table edge.

Terrain

Each player may choose up to 1d10 pieces of terrain.

When a unit enters or fires into a terrain piece roll 1d10

Mode	Easy 1	Hard 2-7	V.Hard 8-9
Ground	Open Ground	Any open or soft Terrain	Rivers, dense terrain or obstacles
Underground		Hard Rock formations	Faults, Chasms
Sea	Open water	Strong winds or currents	Reefs, Mangroves
Stars	Open space	Dust clouds, atmospheres	Meteor fields
Sky	Open air	Strong wind	Severe storms

A roll of 0 indicates the terrain is impassable at this time and place.

All terrain pieces in the home quarter are rolled for prior to deployment. Fortifications and settlements are good going inside if uncontested by enemy. Crossing into or out of them is good going if at gates or roads uncontested by enemy. Crossing under enemy resistance is 1 level harder than the rolled for terrain value. 

Setting up

Players roll 1d10. The low scorer chooses the first piece of terrain and places it; the high scorer chooses the second piece and so on.  The high scorer chooses their table edge. The low scorer gets the opposite edge.

Turns

Each Turn all sides roll 1d10

High scorer is Player 1 Low scorer is Player 2

For each following action Player goes first followed by Player2, Player 3 etc.

Phase 1 - Rolls for Orders,

Phase 2 - Places blinds

Phase 3 - Places Move counters

Phase 4 - Fires at any blinds / units in range

Phase 5 - Moves all units with Move counters

Orders

Cost- Orders 1d10   10 pnt per

Range = 1d100 (x2)

If they roll below their Orders value they get the lower number of pips otherwise they get their full allowance.

For 1 pip you may:

Place one blind within your quarter of the table.

Issue, remove or change a Move counter.

For 1 extra pip you may change a Move order during move.

If Score is <Orders then that many pips are available,

If Score >= Orders then use full allowance.

For each pip a blind can be placed on the home quarter or a move arrow can be issued, removed or changed on a unit within Range.

Account for intervening terrain – use worst case.

If Terrain = Easy then Range= Range

If Terrain = Hard then Range = Range /2

If Terrain = Very Hard then Range = Range/10

Movement

Cost - Move 1d100 (1-100 cms) - 1 pnt per 1^st Mode, 2 pnts per 2^nd Mode, 5 pnts per 3^rd Mode, 10 pnts per 4^th Mode.

Modes – Ground, Under Ground –Tunnelling, Sea, Sky and Space

Once under a move order, a unit must roll and move each turn.

Roll 1d100. If Score <= Move, move Score cms

If Score > Move, move Move cms

Terrain = Easy, Awkward or Impossible

If Terrain = Easy then Move = Move

If Terrain = Hard then Move = Move /2

If Terrain = Very Hard then Move = Move/10

Round scores up to nearest whole number.

Space Movement

In space, move rate increases or decreases by roll. 

 So if Moving at 80, and the next turn 60 is rolled then new speed is 140.

Or 80 – 60 = 20

If figure is minus unit is stationary.

Movement at depths and altitudes

Movement can take place at 3 depth levels underground and in the sea and at 3 altitude levels in the sky.

Movement from one level to the next is at ½ Move rate.

Firing

Cost - Range 1d100(x2cms) – 1 pnt per  Fire 1d100 – 1 pnt per    Armour 1d100 – 1 pnt per

Direct – Line of sight is needed. Target must be in range. Units may not fire over/ under other units unless on a different elevation or using indirect fire. The firer may select any visible units as targets.

Indirect – Spotter is needed within range of firer and within line of sight and range of the target, ignores Hard terrain.

Homing – Costs x 10. Must be fired with spotter or line of sight, reduces very hard terrain and ignores hard terrain  
       

In order to fire at a target one must first be able to bring any weapons to bear. This is reflected by the Range roll. A successful Range roll means the target is spotted and weapons have been ranged correctly, bringing fire onto the target. Weapons can reach from 0 – 200 cms reflected by the Range roll being doubled (1d100 scores 2-200) If a doubled Range roll is less than the distance to the target the target is not sighted well enough to fire effectively. Otherwise the fire is placed effectively and damage is rolled for.

Target Choice

Units will fire based on the following priorities.

1^st – Enemy in contact

2^nd – Enemy firing at self if visible

3^rd – Enemy engaging friends

4^th - Closest unengaged and visible enemy

Good Hits

A doubled Range roll that touches the target causes a Good Hit and leads to the Fire Value being doubled.

Effects of Terrain

Firing from Ground / Sea surface to 2 levels deeper requires Homing weapons or Fire factor over 60 pnts. Firing underground requires Homing weapons. Firing two levels higher counts as V. Hard terrain. Another method is to buy weapons systems as units and move them individually, to culminate in a ram or suicide attacks, effectively replicating homing missile attacks.

The Range roll is halved when firing through Hard terrain and divided by 10 when firing through Very Hard terrain. This means that the more developed spotting systems will be more able to engage targets in cover.

Causing Damage – Fire and Armour Rolls

In order to cause damage one must first defeat any cover or armour of the target. A successful Fire roll is where the score on a 1d100 is greater than the enemies Armour roll. A Fire roll above the Fire factor is equal to the Fire factor. An Armour roll above the Armour factor equals the Armour factor.

If the Fire roll is higher than the Armour roll then the difference is done in damage. If the Fire roll is double the Armour roll then the target is destroyed.

When damage is taken, deduct the damage from the unit’s Armour, Move, Fire or Order and reduce the point value of the unit accordingly. Damage is allocated by the unit’s commander if the Damage roll is even and by the firing player if the Damage roll is odd.  Once the unit reaches 0 in Armour it is considered destroyed by any further damage. Units with full Armour of 10 or less are assumed to have all round armour of the same value for free. Indirect  ‘Good Hits’ and hits from  two elevations higher, or attacks from below ( such as mines) will do double damage unless the target is either ‘Mine Proof’ or has bought ‘Top Armour’. These cost the same as normal Armour. Units hit from the flank will have half their normal armour and a quarter of their armour on the rear unless they buy ‘All Round Armour’ at double the usual cost. Units may optionally have the bulk of the armour at the rear.

Turrets are assumed to have the same armour in the same positions as the main body of the unit although the bulk of the armour will usually be at the front and occasionally top armour is neglected. Imagine a WW2 bomber; the crew, engines etc. are armoured from the rear but the turrets may have their armour to the front.

If Terrain = Hard then Damage = Damage/2 – Ignored by Indirect and Homing Fire

If Terrain = Very Hard then Damage = Damage/10 – (Damage/2 for Homing fire)

Close Combat (CQB)

Cost - CQB 1d100 – 1 pnt per

Immediately any time enemy units come into base to base contact each unit rolls 1d100.

If the roll is less than the CQB factor then use the rolled score, otherwise use the CQB factor. Where more than one unit is present from either side, total scores are cumulative. Subtract the lowest scorer from the highest scorer. The difference is taken as damage to the lowest scorer. Units contacted where their armour is weakest, or from above or below (unless armoured in those places) take damage at the winner’s full CQB factor.

Ram / Suicide Attacks

A unit may enter into CQB and ram or self destruct. A ram attack uses the Armour factors of both parties as pure damage against the other.  A Suicide Attack uses the combined speed of both units (movement towards each other is added together, movement of the target away from the attacker is subtracted) as a mutual fire factor.  Roll using this Fire factor against Armour to ascertain damage.

Winning and losing

Once every unit from all but one side is off table or when all sides agree the game is over. The side that has received the most damage is the loser.

Repair Bonus

For campaigns – At the end of a battle roll 1d100 for each damaged unit and restore any damage points up to the 1d100 score. The loser rolls 1d100 (any others roll 2d100) and may use this to further repair damaged units, replace destroyed units and create new units. Each roll of 100 allows 1 point to be added to any one unit.

Captures

The losing team may attempt to destroy any stranded units by rolling under their own Fire factor and exceeding their Armour factor. Any non-destroyed unit left on table by a non-winning player at the end of a game that has 0 Move points and 0 Fire points will be captured. The winner may claim any captured units and add them to their forces, repairing them with their end of battle repair bonus or use 10% of the captured unit’s remaining points value to add to the repair bonus pool (the unit is then discarded).

Specialities

Orders

This speciality has been dealt with earlier as it is fundamental to the game operation.

Mobile

A unit may have its Move cost multiplied by 5 to either reduce V.Hard Terrain to Hard or to reduce Hard terrain to Easy. Move cost is multiplied by 10 to reduce both. This represents specialised troops /training such as Mountain troops or High Mobility vehicles.

Psionic

A psionic unit (or a magic unit) is purchased in the same way as the Orders speciality.  Pips are purchased for 25 pnts each and Range is purchased at 1 pnt per cm. Pips are one use only, once per phase and may be used to simulate any other speciality and thus may be expended at the appropriate phase in the turn including during the enemy’s actions since psionics may be used to place, move or remove enemy move orders, fire or cancel the fire from one enemy system, reroll any 1 die, cancel an enemy psionic pip or reveal an enemy blind up to the maximum range paid for.

Teleport

During the movement phase a teleport unit is able to transfer up to 1d10 units to any point within its range or to any point within the range of another teleport unit within range.  By using a chain of teleport units it is possible to transport units vast distances. Teleport units pay 25 pnts for each unit capacity and 1 pnt per cm range. To transport a number of units roll 1d10; the score must equal or exceed the number of units transported. Any units not covered by the die roll are suspended in ‘buffers’ until a future roll is made, the result being the maximum number of units that can be released from the ‘buffers’. Teleport units can teleport each other but not themselves and must include any suspended units in their roll. Several species have tried walking teleporters across the battle field in this way with entire armies held in ‘buffers’. The consequences of a teleporter taking a bad hit in these circumstances can be disastrous. Great fun can be had teleporting a teleport unit into the midst of an enemy, collecting some hapless units and teleporting them somewhere nasty. Beware, a clever enemy can take control of your teleporter using ECM and use them to get to your lines.

ECM

ECM is used to block enemy signals and interfere with enemy electronic systems. ECM costs 25 pnts per factor up to 10 and 1pnt per cm range. By successfully rolling the ECM factor or less on a d10 in any phase, ECM can be used to:

Cancel a new enemy order or order change issued with in range.

Remove 1 d10 pips from any enemy commander within range but not to less than 2.

Combat an enemy ECM attack. Roll below your ECM and also beat the enemy’s ECM roll.

Hijack a teleporter – Send units in buffer back to previous teleporter and roll d10 to materialise that many units.

Disrupt Homing Weapons - Roll below your ECM and also beat any enemy ECM roll to restore cover bonus to friendly units in Range currently under homing weapon attack.

Disrupt a teleporter – Prevent 1 d10 units from being de-materialised.

Combat an enemy ADS (Active Defence System). Roll below your ECM and also beat the enemy’s ADS roll to reduce the ADS by the difference.

ADS (Active Defence System)

An ADS is used to intercept incoming large shells, missiles and aircraft. They tend to be automated but can be used to engage other targets too. Any incoming attack (weapons fire passing within the ADS unit’s range) with a Fire above 35 can be intercepted within range. Cost 25 pts per ADS point, 1 point per Fire factor and 1 point per cm range. Roll below your ADS and also beat any enemy ECM roll to reduce the firepower by ten times the difference. Against enemy units, use Fire attacks as usual.

Field Repairs

Costs 10 pnts per factor up to 10. Roll below factor on 1d10 to repair 1 point per turn during Fire phase. Must be in base to base with unit being repaired. A result of 10 indicates no further repairs can be made on that factor. Includes medical function.

Sample list and Costing

Colonial forces

C19th Century Mars Mining Expeditionary Company (1705pnts)

HQ Sir General Woolley Cardigan Jnr & staff. (104pnts)

Move	Ground 10(10pnts)
Orders	5( 50pnts)
Range	30cm (15pnts)
Fire	8(8pnts)
Range	6cm (3pnts)
CQB	12(12pnts)
Armour	6(6pnts)

9x Infantry Co. (64pnts) each

Move	Ground 10(10pnts)
Fire	16( 16pnts)
Range	20cm (10pnts)
CQB	20(20pnts)
Armour	8(8pnts)

3x Missile Battery (110pnts) each

Move	0(0pnts)
Fire	45( 45pnts)
Range	120cm (60pnts)
CQB	0(0pnts)
Armour	5(5pnts)

3x Steam Moles (90pnts) each

Move	Underground 10(10nts) Ground 10(20pnts)
Fire	0(0pnts)
Range	0cm (0pnts)
CQB	20(20pnts)
Armour	40(40pnts)

Each mole can carry one infantry Coy.

4x Gatling Battery (86pnts) each

Move	Ground 3(3pnts)
Fire	30( 30pnts)
Range	60cm (30pnts)
CQB	15(15pnts)
Armour	8(8pnts)

Martian forces

14^th Resplendent Empire (1769pnts)

Tilas of Lars – Prime Sword. (93pnts)

Move	Ground 10(10 pnts)
Orders	4( 40pnts)
Range	30cm (15pnts)
Fire	0(0pnts)
Range	0cm (0pnts)
CQB	16(16pnts)
Armour	12(12pnts)

6 Shimmer Class Light Wings (85pnts) each

Move	Air 40(40pnts)
Fire	10( 10 pnts)
Range	30cm (15pnts)
CQB	10(10pnts)
Armour	10(10pnts)

3x Tribal Sith Riders (126pnts) each

Move	Ground 15(75pnts) Mobile - hard to easy
Fire	10( 10 pnts)
Range	16cm (8pnts)
CQB	15(15pnts)
Armour	18(18pnts)

12x Maldian Guard Blades (59pnts) each

Move	Ground 10(10pnts)
Fire	10(10 pnts)
Range	6cm (3pnts)
CQB	24(24pnts)
Armour	12(12pnts)

Great Dragon Battery (80pnts)

Move	Ground 10(10pnts)
Fire	25( 25pnts)
Range	50cm (25pnts)
CQB	10(10pnts)
Armour	10(10pnts)

Holocene Predators

Dumb Ass Dino Bird (43pnts)

Move	Land 20 (20pnts)
Fire	0 ( 0pnts)
Range	0cm (0pnts)
CQB	15 (15pnts)
Armour	8 (8pnts)

New Kingdom Egyptian

Archers +Reed Boat (55pnts)

Move	Water 15 (15pnts)	Land 10(20pnts)
Fire	5 ( 5pnts)
Range	10cm (5pnts)
CQB	5 (5pnts)
Armour	5 (5pnts)

Undead Fantasy

Skeletal Centaur Archers (45pnts)

Move	Land 15 (15pnts)
Fire	5 ( 5pnts)
Range	10cm (5pnts)
CQB	10(10pnts)
Armour	10(10pnts)

ACW

Union Militia (43pnts)

Move	Land10 (10pnts)
Fire	10 ( 10pnts)
Range	16cm (8pnts)
CQB	10(10pnts)
Armour	5(5pnts)

WW2

M5 scout Tank (85pnts)

Move	Land 15 (15pnts)
Fire	20 ( 20pnts)
Range	20cm (10pnts)
CQB	15(15pnts)
Armour	15(15pnts)

21^st Century

Heavy Bomber B1B (815pnts)

Move	Sky– 90 (90pnts)
Fire	60( 600 pnts) Homing
Range	200cm (100pnts)
CQB	0(0pnts)
Armour	25(25pnts)

26^st Century

Mecha (365pnts)

Move	Land 20 (20pts)
Fire	60( 60pnts) Indirect
Range	100cm (50pnts)
Fire	40( 40pnts)
Range	120cm (60pnts)
CQB	70(70pnts)
Armour	65(65pnts)

32^nd Century

Sentient Light Ship – Unbound Joy of Manifestation (630 pnts)

Move	Space +/- 80 (80pnts) sky 80 (160)
Orders	9( 90pnts)
Range	200cm (100pnts)
Fire	80( 80pnts)
Range	160cm (80pnts)
CQB	70(70pnts)
Armour	70(70pnts)