Section Cards
Section cards are used to order units in a specific section of the battlefield to move and/or battle. These cards indicate which section of the battlefield you may order units or leaders, and how many units or leaders you may order.
A Section Command card may order an attached leader to detach from a unit and move separately.
Tactic Cards
Tactic cards allow ordered units to move and/or battle in ways not normally allowed in the basic rules. Terrain movement and battle restrictions still apply when a Tactic card Actions take precedence over basic rules.
An attached leader may not be order to detached and move separately when a Tactic Command card is played on a turn, unless stated otherwise on the Tactic card.
When the number of units to be ordered is not a fixed number, but instead the card states “for each Command card you have, including this card” the number of units a player may order is equal to the number of Command cards in the player’s possession, including the Command card currently being played.
Additional Command Card Notes
Line Command & Line Volley: Line Command and Line Volley Command cards order units, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and lone Leaders. This line of units and leaders has to be in adjacent, linked, contiguous hexes and may extend across sections of the
battlefield.
Inspired Leader: Inspired Leader Command cards order one leader and the unit with the leader, if any, and up to 4 units and/or lone leaders in a string of adjacent, linked, contiguous hexes to the leader that was ordered. After movement units without a leader that are in a hex adjacent to the ordered leader will combat with 1 additional die. The string of units that are ordered may extend across sections of the battlefield.
Line Volley: A unit ordered by the Line Volley card may not melee. Therefore, if an enemy unit in the line that is ordered is adjacent to an enemy unit it may not fire. This may also be the case when an enemy unit is forced to retreat onto an adjacent hex next to a unit that has not yet fired. The adjacent enemy unit will prevent an ordered unit from doing ranged combat.
First Strike: A unit that plays a First Strike, is not eligible to battle back.
Rally: The card may be used to rally and return blocks to more than one unit.