Reserves

Reserves are detachments that are held back behind the front lines to reinforce vulnerable areas under attack. Alternatively they may be detachments following behind a vanguard or reconnaissance force which will advance when the enemy is discovered. In some scenarios some of the player's army are in reserve so they are not deployed on the table at the start of the battle. These reserve detachments will then enter play once the battle is underway.

The turn when a reserve detachment arrives is determined by the speed of the slowest unit in the detachment, as shown at Reserve Detachment Arrival table. Roll a D6 for each reserve detachment at the start of the turn. If you equal or beat the number shown on the table the detachment arrives. No reserves can enter play on the first turn.

IMPORTANT: At least one reserve detachment must enter play each turn after the first. If a player rolls for all of his detachments and fails to make the dice rolls required for any of them to arrive, then the fastest reserve detachment will enter play that turn. If two or more detachments have an equal Speed randomly determine which of them turns up.

Reserves enter play anywhere on the table edge that runs along the player's deployment zone. Place the detachment's HQ on the table edge. The position where the HQ is placed shows where the units from that detachment will enter play, and is where their move must be measured from on the first turn. If several detachments want to enter at the same point (along a road, for example) simply place the HQs in a row, one in front of the other, and measure the moves from the rearmost HQ in the row.

A detachment which is transporting another detachment (such as transport flyers or a war engine for example) is treated as a single detachment for the purposes of rolling for reserves. If the transporting detachment is available its passengers automatically come too, the passengers aren't rolled for separately.