DS House Rules

OK, some houserules we've been trying out and finding interesting.  Cut 
and paste from the word file I'm going to be printing up and handing 
out at next game.

Company Commanders:
	May activate any platoon for a second time.  Second activation 
allows 1/2 move, and one action.  Moving more than 1/4 base movement 
rate shift fire dice down one as normal.  This is in lieu of normal 
activation.  Commander must roll his quality dice vs. target unit's 
leadership.  Commander may make 1/2 move and activate a platoon.

This came about because a fellow who'd been playing DSII with modern 
vehicles showed up Monday with nothing but Russians and Brits.	I 
uprated his stuff to HKPs etc, but we started discussing effects of 
chain of command.  This resulted, and I kinda like it.	I've never been 
too comfortable with dropping company commanders--reminds me too much 
of 1950s experiments with the Penatomic Division (Shudder).

Morale Checks:
	A unit takes all morale checks applicable.  A platoon which 
breaks or routs causes the company commander to take morale check at 
the threat level of the morale check which broke the platoon.  If a 
company commander fails a morale check, all platoons loose a level of 
confidence.  A company commander's death causes a morale check for loss 
of leader for all platoons.  The platoon leader with the best 
leadership is designated new company commander.

I've mentioned the first half of this before.  The rest is the logical 
result of adding another link in the chain of command.

Artillery:
	Organic artillery does not require a roll to come down. 
Attached 
artillery in direct support of the echelon on the table (IOW, if you've 
got a BN HQ on the board and the artillery is in direct support of this 
BN) rolls quality dice vs. 2.  General Support artillery requires a 4+ 
to come in.  Pre-plotted fire missions would come in on schedule all 
the time, and TRPs and/or FISTs give a +1 to die roll.	If  you make it 
exactally, then it comes in, but not in next activation, but activation 
after (thus giving your opponent 2 chances to move out of beaten zone).

My Arty rules, which I've posted before, refined.  I'm strongly 
considering making it leadership/LD+2 instead of flat 2/4.

And comments on someone else's house rules:  Someone posted a addy for 
a very nice site (quotes of Chinese philosophers all over the place) 
recently, and I like the house rules he's got there.  Some I won't use, 
as they are genre specific.  One I think is wrong--the overrun followup 
rules.	He limits it to one follow-up.	I point out that pursuit of a 
defeated enemy could be carried out for miles during the Middle Ages or 
Napoleonic time periods--if a commander wanted to chase down fleeing 
troops he could.  I also was wondering about price and range of Nuclear 
Dampers--to simulate Slammers or other background where nukes are 
really verboten, I'd drop it to 250 points (vis 500) and extend range 
to 'tabletop' vis 36". 

John 

John