Eylau: Napoleon's Winter Battle, 1807 Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Read This First
• Standard Rules: Index
• Eylau Exclusive Rules: Index
• Standard Rules
• [1.0] How to Start
• [2.0] Equipment
  • [2.1] The game maps represent the terrain on which the battles were fought.
  • [2.2] The Terrain Effects Chart summarizes how the features on the maps affect the movement and combat of the playing pieces
  • [2.3] The Combat Results Table is the primary means for resolving combat.
  • [2.4] The playing pieces represent the actual military units that took part in the historical battles
  • [2.5] Combat Strength is the basic power of a unit when attacking of defending
  • [2.6] Movement is the unit's basic ability to move in one Movement Phase.
  • [2.7] The unit's type is indicated by the large symbol superimposed on the face of the playing piece.
• [3.0] Basic Procedure
  • The Sequence of Play
    • The First Player may move his units and bring in reinforcements
    • The First Player must attack adjacent Enemy units.
    • The Second Player may move his units and bring in reinforcements
    • The Second Player must attack adjacent Enemy units.
• [4.0] Movement of Units
  • [4.1] A unit may never exceed its Movement Allowance.
  • [4.2] Units must spend more (or less) than one Movement Point to traverse some terrain types.
  • [4.3] A unit may never enter nor pass through a hex containing an Enemy unit.
  • [4.4] A unit may never end its Movement Phase in the same hex as another Friendly unit.
  • [4.5] A unit must stop upon entering a hex that is in the Zone of Control of an Enemy unit.
  • [4.6] Units may not leave the map.
• [5.0] Combat Pre-Conditions
  • Eligibility Requirements for Attacking Units
  • [5.1] A unit that is in an Enemy Zone of Control must attack—and every Enemy unit that has a phasing unit in its Zone of Control must be attacked.
  • [5.2] No unit may be involved in more than one attack per Combat Phase.
  • [5.3] More than one unit may participate in a given attack.
  • [5.4] More than one Enemy unit can be the object of the same attack.
  • [5.5] A unit's Combat Strength is indivisible.
  • [5.6] An artillery unit not in an Enemy Zone of Control may make a bombardment attack against an Enemy unit two hexes distant.
  • [5.7] Except when making a combined attack [see 5.8] bombarding artillery units may attack only a single Enemy-occupied hex.
• [6.0] Combat Resolution
  • How Attacks are Evaluated and Resolved
  • Combat Results Table
  • [6.1] The attacking Player must announce which of his units are involved in a given attack against a specific defending unit or group of units.
  • [6.2] The calculated Combat Ratio is always determined to represent a specific column of results on the Combat Results Table.
  • [6.3] The abbreviations on the Combat Results Table will indicate that units are either retreated or destroyed.
  • [6.4] Units may be retreated (by their owners) only in 'safe' hexes.
  • [6.5] When the only 'safe' hex is occupied by a Friendly unit, that unit may be displaced.
  • [6.6] When a hex is vacated as a result of combat, a single victorious participating unit may advance into that hex.
• [7.0] Reinforcement
  • How Additional Units Enter the Game
  • [7.1] When reinforcements arrive on the map, they behave identically to units already on the map.
  • [7.2] If there is an Enemy unit within two hexes of the entry hex, the arriving units may choose any map-edge hex(es) within eight hexes of the original entry hex as their new entry hex.
  • [7.3] The entry of reinforcements may be delayed for as long as the Player wishes.
• [8.0] Night Game-Turns
  • and Their Effect on Movement and Combat
  • [8.1] During night Game-Turns, units may not enter Enemy Zones of Control.
  • [8.2] During night Game-Turns, there are no Combat Phases (and, of course, no combat of any type may take place).
• [9.0] Terrain Effects Chart
• Game-Turn/Reinforcement Track (Eylau Map)
• Eylau Exclusive Rules
• [19.0] Movement Restrictions
  • Limitations During the First Two Game-Turns
  • [19.1] During the first two Game-Turns, no French Guard (Gd) unit may be moved.
  • [19.2] On Game-Turn One, only Russian units belonging to the Ostermann (Ost) Division may be moved.
  • [19.3] On Game-Turn Two, only Russian Ostermann Division units and the units of one other Russian division may be moved.
• [20.0] Divisional Integrity in the Attack
  • [20.1] When two units of the same division attack together, their combined basic Combat Strength is raised by two.
  • [20.2] When three or more units of the same division attack together either their total Combat Strength is raised by two or their final Combat Ratio is shifted one column to the right (Player's choice).
  • [20.3] Artillery units bombarding in a combined attack with a unit of their division qualify for the divisional integrity bonus.
  • [20.4] More than one bonus may be applied in the same attack.
• [21.0] Divisional Fresh Strength
  • [21.1] Fresh Strength is a specific, one-time Combat Strength Point bonus awarded to only one unit of a specified division.
  • [21.2] Any number of Fresh Strength bonuses may be used in a single Combat Phase or in a single combat so long as the units given the bonuses are from the correct division.
• [22.0] Weather and Combat
  • An Optional Rule
  • [22.1] A weather die-roll of '5' changes a retreat result into an elimination result.
  • [22.2] A weather die-roll of '6' changes the Player affected by the result.
  • [22.3] A weather die-roll of '1' through '4' leaves the result unmodified.
  • [22.4] There is no weather die-roll after an 'Ee' result.
• [23.0] How to Win Eylau
  • [23.1] Each Player is awarded one Victory Point for each Enemy Combat Strength Point eliminated.
  • [23.2] If the French Player has eliminated at least 75 Allied Strength Points, he gets an award of 15 extra Victory Points.
  • [23.3] If the Allied Player has eliminated at least 75 French Strength Points and at least one French Guard Infantry unit has participated in an attack, the Allies get an award of 15 extra Victory Points.
  • [23.4] Each Player is awarded five Victory Points for each Eylau hex he controls at the end of the game.
  • [23.5] The quality of victory is measured in terms of Victory Points superiority.
• Orders of Battle: Eylau

Read This First

The rules to these two games are organized into a set of numbered Sections. Each Section begins with a General Rule (and sometimes a Procedure) followed by a series of specific Cases — decimally numbered paragraphs headed by a boldface sentence containing the main thought of that specific rule. Should you have any questions concerning these rules, please write SPI, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope and phrasing your questions so that they may be answered by a simple sentence, word or number. Mark your query to the attention of Napoleon's Art of War Rules Question Editor.

Standard Rules: Index

• 1.0 How to Start
• 2.0 Equipment
• 3.0 Basic Procedure
• 4.0 Movement of Units
• 5.0 Combat Pre-Conditions
• 6.0 Combat Resolution
• 7.0 Reinforcement
• 8.0 Night Game-Turns
• 9.0 Terrain Effects Chart

Eylau Exclusive Rules: Index

• 19.0 Movement Restrictions
• 20.0 Divisional Integrity on the Attack
• 21.0 Divisional Fresh Strength
• 22.0 Weather and Combat
• 23.0 How to Win Eylau Orders of Battle

Standard Rules

[1.0] How to Start

GENERAL RULE:

Napoleon's Art of War consists of two distinct and separate games: The Battle of Dresden and the Battle of Eylau. Each of these games has a body of rules in common (called the Standard Rules) and rules which apply only to the one game in particular (called Exclusive Rules). Each game also has a separate group of cardboard playing pieces. The playing area (map) of each game is printed on the same piece of paper. Both games use a common set of tables.

PROCEDURE:

The components should be spread out on a large table with the two Players sitting on either side. The die-cut counters should be carefully punched out and kept segregated as to game and national group. The Players should skim through the rules by reading only the bold sentence-headlines in the various rules sections. Then the pieces to one of the games should be placed in their starting positions (as indicated by the four-digit numbers on the backs of the playing pieces). At this point, the Players should review the Sequence of Play and begin a trial game, referring to the details of the rules when they have a question. Note that it is possible to play an enjoyable solitaire game against oneself simply by assuming the role of either Player in proper sequence.

COMMENT:

Dresden is a simulation of the battle between the French under Napoleon and the allied forces of Russia, Prussia, and Austria in August of 1813. Eylau is a game depicting the struggle between the French and the Russo-Prussian force under Baron Levin Bennigsen that occurred in 1807 on February 7th and 8th in a remote area of Poland.

[2.0] Equipment

GENERAL RULE:

The game equipment consists of the rules, charts, maps, and playing pieces.

CASES:

[2.1] The game maps represent the terrain on which the battles were fought.

An hexagonal grid is superimposed on the terrain of each map to regulate movement and positioning of the playing pieces. To make the mapsheet lie flat, one should backfold it against its machine-made folds. Players will note that each hexagon (hereafter called "hex") on the map has its own four digit identity number.

[2.2] The Terrain Effects Chart summarizes how the features on the maps affect the movement and combat of the playing pieces

Note that not all terrain is on both maps.

[2.3] The Combat Results Table is the primary means for resolving combat.

Players will need one die from a set of common six-sided dice in order to play the game. This is included in the boxed edition but not the magazine edition of this game.

[2.4] The playing pieces represent the actual military units that took part in the historical battles

There are four items of information on the front face of each unit and one or two on the back. On the front the Player is told what type of unit it is (infantry, cavalry, or artillery), and what its 'name' or military designation is. Additionally, the Player is given the Combat Strength and the Movement Allowance of each unit. On the back, the Player is told which hex the unit starts in or what Game-Turn the unit enters the game as a reinforcement and where it enters.

(Sample Unit diagram, as printed: front shows the designation, the unit type symbol, the Combat Strength and the Movement Allowance; back shows the starting hex number. An infantry unit's back shows its entry Game-Turn and Area, and a cavalry unit's back shows its Reserve status and reinforcement hex.)

[2.5] Combat Strength is the basic power of a unit when attacking of defending

The Terrain Effects Chart will detail how this number is affected by combat. The Combat Strength value of a unit is deemed to consist of the printed number of Combat Strength Points.

[2.6] Movement is the unit's basic ability to move in one Movement Phase.

This ability is expressed in terms of Movement Points. Differing amounts of Movement Points are charged for entering different types of terrain.

[2.7] The unit's type is indicated by the large symbol superimposed on the face of the playing piece.

Note that the counters without such large symbols are markers that are never actually put into play on the hex field area of the maps.

(Counter diagram, as printed: an artillery unit's front and back, and a Fresh Strength Marker, which is used in Eylau only.)

[3.0] Basic Procedure

The Sequence of Play

The Players take turns moving their units and making attacks. The order in which they take these actions is described in this sequence of play outline. One completion of the sequence of play is called a Game-Turn. Each Game-Turn consists of two Player-Turns. Each Player-Turn consists of two Phases.

THE FIRST PLAYER-TURN:

Step 1. First Player's Movement Phase

The First Player may move his units and bring in reinforcements

He may move as many or as few as he wishes, one after another, within the limitations of the rules of movement.

Step 2. First Player's Combat Phase

The First Player must attack adjacent Enemy units.

He may perform these attacks in any order he wishes, applying the results immediately as each attack is made.

THE SECOND PLAYER-TURN:

Step 3. Second Player's Movement Phase.

The Second Player may move his units and bring in reinforcements

He may move as many or as few as he wishes, one after another, within the limitations of the rules of movement.

Step 4. Second Player's Combat Phase.

The Second Player must attack adjacent Enemy units.

He may perform these attacks in any order he wishes, applying the results immediately as each attack is made.

These four steps are repeated as many times as there are Game-Turns on the Game-Turn Record Track. The game is then over and the Players determine the victor according to the rules on How the Game is Won. In Eylau the French Player is the 'First Player.' In Dresden he is the 'Second Player.'

[4.0] Movement of Units

GENERAL RULE:

Each unit has a Movement Allowance number printed on it which represents the basic number of hexes it may move in a single Movement Phase. Each Player moves only his own units during the Movement Phase of his Player-Turn (as outlined in the Sequence of Play).

PROCEDURE:

Units move one at a time, hex-by-hex, in any direction or combination of directions that the Player desires. The Movement Phase ends when the Player announces that he has moved all of his units that he chooses to (or as of the time that he begins to make attacks).

CASES:

[4.1] A unit may never exceed its Movement Allowance.

During its Movement Phase, each unit may move as far as its Movement Allowance permits. Basically, each unit spends one Movement Point of its total Allowance for each hex that it enters. Individual units may move less than their Movement Allowance. Units are never forced to move during their Movement Phase. Units may not, however, lend or accumulate unused Movement Points.

[4.2] Units must spend more (or less) than one Movement Point to traverse some terrain types.

The basic cost to enter a clear terrain hex is one Movement Point. The basic entry costs to enter some terrain hexes, however, are higher. These costs are specified in the Terrain Effects Chart. If a unit does not have sufficient Movement Points to expend to enter a given hex, it may not do so.

A hex containing more than one type of traverseable terrain is entered at the higher of the two costs. When a hexside has a 'plus' cost attached to it, that cost is in addition to the Movement Point cost for entering the hex.

When a unit enters a hex through a road (or trail) hexside, it pays only the cost for moving one hex along the road (or trail) regardless of the type of terrain entered. Conversely, a road or trail has absolutely no effect on movement if it is entered through a non-road (or non-trail) hexside.

[4.3] A unit may never enter nor pass through a hex containing an Enemy unit.

[4.4] A unit may never end its Movement Phase in the same hex as another Friendly unit.

One or more units may move through a hex containing another Friendly unit, but the moving units may never end the Movement Phase in the same hex as another unit. If this should inadvertently happen, the opposing Player gets to choose which of the illegally placed units are to be destroyed (so that only one unit remains in the hex).

[4.5] A unit must stop upon entering a hex that is in the Zone of Control of an Enemy unit.

Whenever a unit enters a hex that is directly adjacent to any of the Enemy Player's units, the moving unit must immediately stop and move no further that Phase [sic]. Note that there are six hexes adjacent to most hexes on the map. The six hexes adjacent to an Enemy unit are called the Zone of Control of that unit.

A unit may not move so long as it is in an Enemy controlled hex. Only by freeing itself through a combat result may a unit escape the 'freezing' effect of an Enemy Zone of Control.

[4.6] Units may not leave the map.

If forced to do so by the Combat Results Table, they are eliminated instead.

[5.0] Combat Pre-Conditions

Eligibility Requirements for Attacking Units

GENERAL RULE:

Each unit has a Combat Strength number printed on it which represents its basic power to attack during its Combat Phase and to defend during the Enemy Combat Phase. Whether or not a unit can attack is strictly a matter of how it is positioned with respect to Enemy units. All units that are in Enemy Zones of Control must attack during their Combat Phase; artillery units not in Enemy Zones of Control but that have Enemy units within the range of their guns may execute a special form of attack called bombardment.

PROCEDURE:

The Player examines the positions of his units, determining which are in Enemy Zones of Control and which artillery units have Enemy units within their range. Attacks are conducted using the Combat Results Table, the die, and the procedures detailed in the section on Combat Resolution.

CASES:

[5.1] A unit that is in an Enemy Zone of Control must attack—and every Enemy unit that has a phasing unit in its Zone of Control must be attacked.

If there are several possible combinations, the Player may choose which of his units will attack which Enemy unit—so long as every Enemy unit that is required to be attacked is attacked.

[5.2] No unit may be involved in more than one attack per Combat Phase.

No unit may participate in more than one attack, nor may a given Enemy unit be the object of more than one attack, in a single Combat Phase.

[5.3] More than one unit may participate in a given attack.

As many units as can be brought to bear can participate in the same attack.

[5.4] More than one Enemy unit can be the object of the same attack.

So long as each participating attacking unit could have attacked every one of the defending units separately, then all may attack all the defending units in a single combined attack. [See Case 5.8]

[5.5] A unit's Combat Strength is indivisible.

Units may not use part of their strength in one attack and part in another, neither may they reserve or withhold part of their strength in an attack or defense.

[5.6] An artillery unit not in an Enemy Zone of Control may make a bombardment attack against an Enemy unit two hexes distant.

The important distinction between bombardment and regular attacking is that bombardment attacks can be made only by artillery units that are not in the Zone of Control of any Enemy unit. This bombardment attack can be used to satisfy the requirement that a given Enemy unit be attacked (because some other Friendly unit happens to be in its Zone of Control) so long as the other Friendly unit can attack another Enemy unit.

[5.7] Except when making a combined attack [see 5.8] bombarding artillery units may attack only a single Enemy-occupied hex.

Even though it may have several Enemy occupied hexes in range, a given artillery unit may bombard only one of them in a single Combat Phase. Note that several artillery units may direct their bombardment at the same hex, in which case their strengths are totalled into one aggregate bombardment attack.

[5.8] An attack may be made which combines the strength of adjacent units with that of bombarding artillery.

The strength of the artillery unit is simply added to that of the adjacent attacking units. Note that if the Enemy is in more than one hex, the contributing bombarding artillery need have only one of the Enemy occupied hexes in range in order to add its strength to the attack. This is the exception to Case 5.4.

[6.0] Combat Resolution

How Attacks are Evaluated and Resolved

GENERAL RULE:

An 'attack' is defined as the comparison of the strength of a specific attacking force with that of a specific defending force resolved by the throw of a die in connection with a Combat Results Table. The results may affect either or both the attacker and the defender.

PROCEDURE:

The attacking Player totals the Combat Strength of all of his units that are involved in a given attack and compares the total with the total Combat Strength of the Enemy unit or units being attacked. The resulting comparison is called the Combat Ratio. The Player locates the column heading on the Combat Results Table that corresponds to the Combat Ratio. He rolls the die and cross indexes the die number with the Combat Ratio column and reads the result. The indicated result is applied immediately, before going on to any other attacks. When he has made all of his attacks, the Player announces the end of his Combat Phase.

CASES:

Combat Results Table

Combat Ratios: Attacker's Strength to Defender's Strength. Die roll (1-6) down the left and right edges.

Die	1-5	1-4	1-3	1-2	1-1	2-1	3-1	4-1	5-1	6-1
1	Ar	Ar	Dr	Dr	Dr	Dr	Dr	De	De	De
2	Ar	Ar	Ar	Dr	Dr	Dr	Dr	Dr	De

Attacks executed at more than 6-1 are treated as 6-1; attacks executed at less than 1-5 are treated as 1-5.

[6.1] The attacking Player must announce which of his units are involved in a given attack against a specific defending unit or group of units.

He must calculate and announce the Combat Ratio, specifying which of his units are participating in the attack, before it is resolved. He may resolve attacks in any order he chooses. Once the die is thrown, he may not change his mind.

[6.2] The calculated Combat Ratio is always determined to represent a specific column of results on the Combat Results Table.

If the Combat Ratio in an attack is higher (or lower) than the highest (or lowest) shown on the table, it is simply treated as the highest (or lowest) column available. Note that the Combat Ratio is always a simplified version of the literal ratio. For example, if eleven Combat Strength Points attack four Combat Strength Points, the Combat Ratio is simplified to '2 to 1.' Ratios are always rounded off in favor of the defender.

The attacker may deliberately lower the Combat Ratio, if he so desires, simply by announcing the fact before throwing the die. This is sometimes advantageous (see the Combat Results Table).

[6.3] The abbreviations on the Combat Results Table will indicate that units are either retreated or destroyed.

Ae = Attacker eliminated; all units involved in the attack are destroyed (except bombarding artillery). Defending unit has the option to advance after combat.

Ar = Attacker retreats; all units involved in the attack (except bombarding artillery) are forced to move one hex away from the defender. Defending unit has the option to advance after combat.

Ee = Equal elimination; the defending force is eliminated and the attacking force must lose a number of Combat Strength Points at least equal to the printed value of the defending force. If any attacking units survive, one of them may advance after combat. Bombarding artillery can never suffer from this result.

Dr = Defender retreats; the defending unit is forced to move one hex away from the attacking unit(s). One of the attacking units may advance after combat.

De = Defender eliminated; the defending unit is destroyed. One of the attacking units may advance after combat.

[6.4] Units may be retreated (by their owners) only in 'safe' hexes.

A 'safe' hex is defined as a traverseable hex, not in an Enemy Zone of Control. If there is no safe hex available, the unit is destroyed instead. A 'traverseable' hex is one that the unit could legitimately enter during a Movement Phase.

[6.5] When the only 'safe' hex is occupied by a Friendly unit, that unit may be displaced.

The displaced unit must itself have a hex to retreat to (if not, the original unit is destroyed instead of causing displacement). The displaced unit may itself cause a displacement in a sort of chain reaction of retreats.

Note that a retreating unit may not displace an artillery unit that has yet to perform a required bombardment attack. A 'required' bombardment attack is one that is made when some other Friendly unit is in the Zone of Control of the Enemy unit being bombarded and that Friendly unit is attacking still another Enemy unit.

[6.6] When a hex is vacated as a result of combat, a single victorious participating unit may advance into that hex.

Such an advance as a result of combat is an option which must be exercised immediately before going on to resolve any further combat in that Phase. A unit is never forced to advance after combat. A unit may advance into an Enemy controlled hex (even when advancing directly from an Enemy controlled hex).

[6.7] Movement during the Combat Phase does not expend Movement Points.

Retreats and advances are, technically, not considered to be movement.

[6.8] An artillery unit that is not adjacent to the unit that it is attacking is not affected by adverse combat results.

When an artillery unit is bombarding or making a combination attack (as described in Case 5.8), it is totally unaffected by combat results. Even in the case of an 'Ee' result, the defender is destroyed but the artillery unit is unaffected. Bombarding artillery units may voluntarily retreat after combat when they obtain an 'Ae,' 'Ar,' or 'Ee' result.

[7.0] Reinforcement

How Additional Units Enter the Game

GENERAL RULE:

In addition to the force with which they start the game, both Players receive units during the Movement Phases of specified Game-Turns The entry hex code and earliest Game-Turn of arrival are printed on the backs of the playing pieces. (See also the Orders of Battle on page R7.)

PROCEDURE:

At any time during the specified Movement Phase, newly arriving units may enter the map in the hexes indicated.

CASES:

[7.1] When reinforcements arrive on the map, they behave identically to units already on the map.

When reinforcements are placed in an entry hex the arriving unit must pay the normal movement cost for entering that type of terrain. If the entry hex has a road which connects to the map edge, the arriving unit may be assumed to be entering through a road hexside. When more than one unit enters in the same place, they enter singly without regard to which one entered first (i.e., it doesn't cost subsequent units more to enter the map because they are entering "behind" the first unit). The units move (and they may participate in combat) in the Player-Turn of arrival.

[7.2] If there is an Enemy unit within two hexes of the entry hex, the arriving units may choose any map-edge hex(es) within eight hexes of the original entry hex as their new entry hex.

Units may never be placed in an entry hex that is Enemy occupied or which is in Enemy Zones of Control. They may never be placed in an entry hex under conditions which will force a violation of the movement rules (i.e., too many units in the hex at the end of the Movement Phase).

[7.3] The entry of reinforcements may be delayed for as long as the Player wishes.

Should the Player so desire, he may hold back all or part of the reinforcements due him in any given Game-Turn. He should keep a record of any such delayed reinforcements. He need not re-schedule their appearance; they may be brought in at will in any of his subsequent Movement Phases. They must still enter by means of the proper entry hex.

[8.0] Night Game-Turns

and Their Effect on Movement and Combat

GENERAL RULE:

The indicated Game-Turns on the Turn-Record Track are night Game-Turns. During night Game-Turns, there are no Combat Phases and units may not move into Enemy Zones of Control. In all other respects, night Game-Turns are identical to Game-Turns.

CASES:

[8.1] During night Game-Turns, units may not enter Enemy Zones of Control.

[8.2] During night Game-Turns, there are no Combat Phases (and, of course, no combat of any type may take place).

[9.0] Terrain Effects Chart

Terrain	Movement Points (MP) to Enter or Cross	Effect on Combat
Clear hex	1 MP	No effect
Woods hex	2 MP	Blocks bombardment*
Grove hex	1 MP	Blocks bombardment*
Town hex	1 MP	Blocks bombardment*; Defender doubled in hex
Fort hex	1 MP	Defender doubled in hex
Road hex	½ MP in Dresden; 1 MP in Eylau	No effect
Slope hexside	+1 MP crossing from Slope hex	Defender doubled if attacked exclusively through Slope hexsides
Gully hexside / Stream hexside	+2 MP to cross (artillery cross at bridges only)

Note: Rivers and Lakes are frozen in Eylau and have no effect on movement, ZOC, or combat.

Terrain Notes: Terrain effects are cumulative for movement purposes, but not for combat purposes. Thus, to enter a woods hex through a stream hexside costs four Movement Points. A unit in a town hex that is attacked through a stream hexside is merely doubled, not quadrupled. River hexsides: Zones of Control do not extend across unbridged river hexsides. Artillery units may make bombardment attacks through river hexsides (even if directly adjacent to the Enemy unit across the river) and the Enemy unit is not doubled against the bombardment attack.

*Blocking terrain: The indicated terrain blocks artillery bombardment through it but doesn't block fire into it. Plotting a line of fire from center of hex to center of hex, the bombardment is not blocked if this imaginary line falls exactly along the hexside of blocking terrain unless the two hexes which share that hexside are both blocking terrain.

Game-Turn/Reinforcement Track (Eylau Map)

Printed on the Eylau map. Each Game-Turn is listed with its time of day; the Reinforcement column shows the Player (F = French; P = Prussian) receiving reinforcements in that Game-Turn.

Game-Turn	Time	Reinforcements	Notes
1	1400		Feb 7
2	1515
3	1800		Night (shaded on the track)
4	0700	F	Feb 8
5	0815	F
6	0930
7	1045

Map key, as printed: "Reinforcements: F = French; P = Prussian. (See Cases 15.2 and 15.3, or reverse sides of reinforcement units). Night." The folio does not print a Case 15.2 or 15.3; Section 15.0 (Allied Attack Co-ordination) is a Dresden Exclusive Rule and is printed with its General Rule only. The reference is reproduced as printed.

Eylau Exclusive Rules

Both Dresden and Eylau have rules which apply only to the individual games. In some cases these rules are additions and in other modifications to the standard rules. In all cases, the exclusive rules take precedence over the standard rules whenever there is a conflict between the two.

[19.0] Movement Restrictions

Limitations During the First Two Game-Turns

GENERAL RULE:

During the first two Game-Turns, both armies are restricted with regard to the number of units they may move during the Movement Phases.

CASES:

[19.1] During the first two Game-Turns, no French Guard (Gd) unit may be moved.

Such units may participate in combat and advance and retreat as a result thereof.

[19.2] On Game-Turn One, only Russian units belonging to the Ostermann (Ost) Division may be moved.

[19.3] On Game-Turn Two, only Russian Ostermann Division units and the units of one other Russian division may be moved.

The second division declared moveable is at the choice of the Allied Player. In both the Combat Phases of the first and second Game-Turns, all Russian units may participate in combat and advance and retreat as a result thereof.

[20.0] Divisional Integrity in the Attack

GENERAL RULE:

When units of the same parent organization (division) participate in the same attack, they benefit from a Combat Strength bonus. This bonus never applies to the defense.

CASES:

[20.1] When two units of the same division attack together, their combined basic Combat Strength is raised by two.

[20.2] When three or more units of the same division attack together either their total Combat Strength is raised by two or their final Combat Ratio is shifted one column to the right (Player's choice).

[20.3] Artillery units bombarding in a combined attack with a unit of their division qualify for the divisional integrity bonus.

[20.4] More than one bonus may be applied in the same attack.

Each bonus is separately determined and applied to the combined total of Combat Strengths used in the attack. Divisional Fresh Strength bonuses in no way interfere with the use of divisional integrity.

[21.0] Divisional Fresh Strength

GENERAL RULE:

Both Players have some divisions which have Fresh Strength Bonus markers associated with them. This represents the extra Combat Strength available to these units because they had not yet participated in the entire campaign. The French Player has nine such markers, the Allied Player has seven.

PROCEDURE:

Each Player should take his Fresh Strength markers and place them off the map, face-up in front of him. As he uses the bonus available to each division, he turns that marker over to indicate that the unit no longer has that bonus available.

CASES:

[21.1] Fresh Strength is a specific, one-time Combat Strength Point bonus awarded to only one unit of a specified division.

The owning Player may choose when to use a division's Fresh Strength bonus and which unit of that division will receive it. He also chooses whether to use it in an attack or defense. Once used, it is never available again for that division. During a Combat Phase, the attacking Player declares Fresh Strength bonuses for all instances of use and then the defending Player declares any use he will make of Fresh Strength on the defense.

[21.2] Any number of Fresh Strength bonuses may be used in a single Combat Phase or in a single combat so long as the units given the bonuses are from the correct division.

A Fresh Strength bonus is a one-time addition to the basic attacking or defending power of a single unit. It may be applied to an artillery unit involved in a bombardment attack (or, of course, one involved in a normal attack).

For example, a unit with a Combat Strength of 5, defending in a town hex and utilizing a Fresh Strength Combat Bonus of 3, would defend at a Combat Strength of 16 (adding 3 to 5 and then doubling).

[22.0] Weather and Combat

An Optional Rule

GENERAL RULE:

To reflect the confusion and uncertainty stemming from the severe snowstorms in which the battle was fought, each time a combat is resolved there is a chance that the result may be changed. This rule is included for variety's sake and need not be used.

PROCEDURE:

After each combat, roll the die a second time and change the result as detailed in the Cases.

CASES:

[22.1] A weather die-roll of '5' changes a retreat result into an elimination result.

For example, 'Ar' becomes 'Ae.'

[22.2] A weather die-roll of '6' changes the Player affected by the result.

For example, an 'Ar' becomes a 'Dr.'

[22.3] A weather die-roll of '1' through '4' leaves the result unmodified.

[22.4] There is no weather die-roll after an 'Ee' result.

[23.0] How to Win Eylau

GENERAL RULE:

Victory in Eylau is calculated in terms of Victory Points. The Player with the most Victory Points at the end of the game is declared the winner. There are four levels of victory possible: Draw, Marginal, Substantive, and Decisive. The level attained depends upon the Victory Point superiority the winner attains over the loser.

PROCEDURE:

At the end of the game, total each Player's Victory Points. Subtract the loser's score from the winner's to determine the winner's Victory Point superiority.

CASES:

[23.1] Each Player is awarded one Victory Point for each Enemy Combat Strength Point eliminated.

Note that bonus points (Fresh Strength and divisional integrity) are not considered in this calculation.

[23.2] If the French Player has eliminated at least 75 Allied Strength Points, he gets an award of 15 extra Victory Points.

[23.3] If the Allied Player has eliminated at least 75 French Strength Points and at least one French Guard Infantry unit has participated in an attack, the Allies get an award of 15 extra Victory Points.

If the French Guard Infantry units never participate in an attack, the Allies can never get the extra 15 Victory Points regardless of how many Combat Strength Points they eliminate. Players should note the commital of the Guard on a piece of paper.

[23.4] Each Player is awarded five Victory Points for each Eylau hex he controls at the end of the game.

'Control' is defined as being the last Player to have a unit occupy or pass through the hex. Simply placing the hex in one's Zone of Control is not sufficient. Eylau consists of hexes 1213 and 1313.

[23.5] The quality of victory is measured in terms of Victory Points superiority.

Victory Point Superiority	Level of Victory
0 to 14 Points	Draw
15 to 29 Points	Marginal Victory
30 to 44 Points	Substantive Victory
45 or more Points	Decisive Victory

Orders of Battle: Eylau

Units are listed according to their divisional abbreviation, Combat Strength and Movement Allowance, and Start Hex or Entry Hex. Unit types are infantry (i), cavalry (c), and artillery (a).

ALLIED ARMY (RUSSIANS)

• Tutchov (Tut) Division: 8-4(i) 0714/5-1(i) 0813/4-4(i) 0713/3-5(c) 0715/1-5(c) 0615/5-3(a) 0913.
• Essen (Ess) Division: 8-4(i) 0812/6-4(i) 0912/4-4(i) 1010/2-5(c) 0811/2-5(c) 0911/6-3(a) 1011.
• Samoff (Sam) Division: 8-4(i) 0810/8-4(i) 0710/4-5(c) 0711/6-3(a) 0610.
• Docturov (Doc) Division: 6-4(i) 0910/6-4(i) 0808/4-4(i) 0809/1-5(c) 0709/5-3(a) 0909.
• Sacken (Sac) Division: 8-4(i) 1110/7-4(i) 1209/4-5(c) 1109/8-3(a) 1210.
• Kamenski (Kam) Division: 7-4(i) 1408/7-4(i) 1308/4-3(a) 1309.
• Osterman (Ost) Division: 7-4(i) 1211/5-4(i) 1212/1-4(i) 1411/2-5(c) 1113/2-5(c) 1510/4-3(a) 1311.

ALLIED REINFORCEMENTS

• Lestocq's (Les) Division (Prussian): 5-4(i) A7/3-4(i) A7/3-5(i) A7/2-5(c) A7/2-3(a) A7.

Note: Prussian units are controlled by the Allied (Russian) Player.

FRENCH ARMY

• Leval (Lev) Division: 5-4(i) 1217/3-4(i) 1216/1-4(i) 1118/7-3(a) 1317.
• Legrand (Leg) Division: 6-4(i) 1316/3-4(i) 1315/3-4(i) 1215/5-3(a) 1416.
• Desjardins (Des) Division: 8-4(i) 1614/4-4(i) 1713/4-4(i) 1613/5-3(a) 1515.
• Heudelet (Heu) Division: 4-4(i) 1714/4-4(i) 1715/4-4(i) 1814/7-3(a) 1616.
• St. Hilaire (Sth) Division: 4-4(i) 1812/4-4(i) 1811/4-4(i) 1912/5-3(a) 1815.
• Guard (Gd) Division: 9-4(i) 1813/9-4(i) 1914/3-5(c) 1915.
• Murat's (Mur) Cavalry: 3-5(c) 1414/3-5(c) 1415/4-5(c) 1514/4-5(c) 1516/4-5(c) 1615/1-5(c) 1019/1-5(c) 0820.

FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS

• Morand (Mor) Division: 8-4(i) B4/4-4(i) B4/1-5(c) B4.
• Friant (Fri) Division: 4-4(i) B5/4-4(i) B5.
• Gudin (Gud) Division: 7-4(i) B8/2-4(i) B8.
• Marchand (Mar) Division: 8-4(i) A9/4-4(i) A9/2-3(a) A9.
• Gardanne (Gar) Division: 5-4(i) A9/4-4(i) A9/1-5 A9.