Piquet of Knights

Piquet of Knights isn’t a game in itself, rather the interface between two different games, Piquet's Band of Brothers 2 and Chipco’s Days of Knights. You will need a copy of both games if the following is to make any sense to you.

This is very much a work in progress, and changes will be made as it develops.

Army Command Rating

Before the battle begins roll on the Leader Quality Table (see section 5.1 of Band of Brothers 2) with a d20 to determine the army command rating of each army.

Command Indecision and Brilliant Commander are added as per the table in that section.

Compulsory Discards

• One discard for every 10 per cent in unit losses
• One discard for every marshal lost
• Two discards if the army commander is lost
• One discard is the army has a poor command rating
• Two discards if the army has an abysmal command rating

TAD Deck

• The TAD deck consists of 10 Milling Around cards, three Courage! cards and any optional cards that are being used.
• Replace each discard from the sequence deck with a card from the TAD deck. At the end of the turn, these replacement cards are stripped out.

Sequence Card Definitions (all actions costs 1 PIP)

• Battle Lust - functions as a Melee Resolution but at +1 on the die roll. All units must pursue.
• Brilliant Leader - player may assign it to be any card he chooses. May declare it to be a different card each time it is drawn.
• Cavalry/Infantry Move in Rough Terrain - cavalry/infantry may move in difficult going. Artillery is not included. Attached characters may move with any unit under any move card.
• Cavalry in Open - cavalry in open only may move. Must end its move if it contacts any non-open terrain. May move as a group with attached leader; otherwise all units in group must pay one PIP each.
• Cavalry Manoeuvre - cavalry with attached character may withdraw from combat. Cavalry may dismount as under a Deployment card.
• Command Indecision - all remaining impetuous in current initiative are cancelled
• Confused Withdrawal - one battle within one move of the enemy must withdraw one full move. Each unit must make a rally roll or become demoralized.
• Courage! - All units in contact make rally roll or gain a DMZ level.
• Crushing Missilery - all units up one when shooting until end of phase.
• Deployment - may dismount knights/heavy cavalry or deploy/pickup stakes
• Divine Inspiration - double remaining PIPs.
• Elites Reload - longbows and crossbows may fire.
• Engine of War Move - only artillery may move on this card. Once artillery first fires it can never move again.
• Engine of War Reload - artillery units may fire.
• Heroic Moment - next card's effect is doubled for one unit. If not used, it cancels a following Command Indecision or other bad card.
• Ineffective Missilery -1 on all missile fire until end of phase.
• Infantry in Open - infantry ONLY in open may move. Must end move if it contacts any non-open terrain.
• Leader Check- may attempt to rally any unit once. May move characters independently of their units.
• Levy Apprehensive - all levies must make rally roll or gain a DMZ level.
• Light Cavalry in Open - light cavalry may move.
• Melee Resolution - units in contact fight. Heavy Cavalry/Knights in contact MUST fight; others have option to do so.
• Milling Around - nothing happens.
• Missile Reload - longbows and bows may fire.
• Rain and Wet - rain begins. No unit may fire until re-shuffle.
• Uncontrolled Charge - all knights/heavy cavalry make a full move towards nearest enemy as individual units, breaking formation if necessary.

Opportunity Fire

Each army is given stored PIPs with which to spend on opportunity fire (usually three). A PIP may be spent to fire a unit during the other player's initiative if:

• The phasing player's unit is moving
• The phasing player has announced his unit will fire. Only the unit being fired upon may opportunity fire.

Sequence of Play

The sequence of play follows that outlined in the Piquet Master Rules. It costs 1 PIP to flip a card, and one PIP to perform an action under it.

Units in Contact

Units in full contact are not considered engaged until someone uses a PIP to initiate melee. As such, missile units may fire at enemy units that they are in full contact with up until actual combat is initiated. It is best to use markers to show units that are engaged in combat as opposed to those who are just in contact.

Sample Sequence Decks

Basic Deck Card Type	Burgundian Ordonnance	French Ordonnance	Wars of the Roses English	German Imperial	Swiss
Cavalry in Open	2	3	2	2	2
Infantry in Open	2	2	2	2	3
Cavalry or Infantry in Bad Going	2	2	2	2	2
Engine of War Move	1	1	1	1	1
Engine of War Reload	1	1	1	1	1
Missile Reload	2	2	2	2	2
Deployment	1	1	1	1	1
Heroic Moment	2	2	2	2	2
Melee Resolution	3	4	3	3	5
Leader Check	1	2	3	2	2
Elite Reload	1	1	2	1	1
Light Cavalry Move	1	1	1	1	1
TAD	2	1	1	2	1
Basic Deck Total	21	23	23	22	24

TAD Deck Card Type	Burgundian Ordonnance	French Ordonnance	Wars of the Roses English	German Imperialist	Swiss
Courage!	3	2	2	3	1
Milling Around	10	10	10	10	10
Battle Lust!	0	1	0	0	1
Confused Withdrawal	1	0	0	1	0
Ineffective Missilery	1	1	1	1	1
Crushing Missilery	1	1	1	0	0
Levy Apprehensive	0	1	1	1	0
Uncontrolled Charge	0	1	0	0	0
Tad Deck Total	16	17	15	16	13

Note - any card that is not appropriate (e.g. Cavalry Move in Open if there is no horse in the army) is permanently removed from the deck before the game.