Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Four Chain of Command rules you might be getting wrong

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Played CoC last night at the club (report to follow tomorrow): I was distinctly amused to realise how much more of the rules I know properly now, by the simple act of typing them into a quick reference sheet.

With that in mind, here are four Chain of Command rules we used to get embarrassingly wrong:
  • Deployment (4.3.1): on a one, you may only deploy an independent team, not a fire team that's part of a section (unless it's a Scout team). This is different from activation.
  • Removing Shock (4.5.3): you may only remove Shock from a team your leader is not attached to if it's not in LOS of an enemy unit.
  • Overwatch (4.5.2): Overwatch:
    • is an activation (no moving and then going on Overwatch!);
    • is something you do to a team, not a section.
  • At the Double (7.1): it's one Shock per team, not per section.
[N.B. CoC QRS now at v1.2, some minor typos fixed and a small change to the 'Useful References' table]
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14 comments:

  1. dmchodge20 January 2015 at 10:40

    I only picked up on the deployment one last week.

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  2. Laffe20 January 2015 at 11:04

    Yep, been doing them all wrong.

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    1. Koen3 February 2016 at 14:15

      We've corrected these about a year ago, but we did have them wrong before ;)

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  3. john de terre neuve20 January 2015 at 11:43

    Interesting, I have probably played 10-12 games now and missed the "on the double" shock per team as well as the LOS rule re unattached leaders.

    Fantastic QRS.

    Many thanks,

    John

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  4. John Ewing20 January 2015 at 13:15

    Great QRS, thanks for doing it.
    You can place a section on overwatch but it will cost 2 CIs to do it for most sections. Important if you are a Soviet player.
    John

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    1. Mike Whitaker20 January 2015 at 13:17

      Well yes - that's 'cause in most cases you're putting two teams on overwatch, not one section :D Yes, the Russians are the odd exception.

      And thanks for the compliment.

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  5. Anibal Invictus20 January 2015 at 13:59

    Happy to say that these four rules I already knew (although I keep forgetting the last one and only add a shock to the full section when moving at the doubke). I'm sire there's a lot more that I keep doing worng

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  6. Anonymous20 January 2015 at 16:17

    It's odd, I like CoC far better than other rulesets I've tried, but the writing isn't always as clear as it might be. Certainly it wouldn't do for a rules-lawyering tournament-style player. (That may be a good thing.)

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  7. Paul O'G20 January 2015 at 20:56

    The Leader removing shock only when out of LOS of the enemy is a great mechanic.

    I have this vision of a squad coming under MG fire in a field and going to ground, and then an officer 100 yards behind them in the treeline urging them on. At which point the soldiers look at each other and decide not to hear him as bullets whizz past their ears...

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  8. alastair20 January 2015 at 23:34

    I'm pretty sure I'd missed all of these!

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  9. Ron Carnegie21 January 2015 at 02:18

    Thanks for the reminders!!

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  10. Paul Scrivens-Smith21 January 2015 at 12:45

    I must be playing like a boss then....
    Although I am sure there are loads of other rules I am getting wrong :)

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  11. JOHNBOND2 February 2016 at 22:46

    Thanks Mike for that, always good to be reminded of things we may tend to forget.

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