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1. Players may use any PC they have already rolled up (living or dead), or may roll up a new PC for the battle. Only one PC per player is allowed each battle.
2. New PCs are rolled up using the normal rules. You may choose your race or roll for it randomly. Money may only be used to purchase equipment, not personnel.
3. At the start of the battle scenario, each side will be given a certain amount of points to build an army. The players of that army are responsible for dividing up the funds between them and purchasing their own troops.
4. Rather than using the normal rules, troops are bought using a special table that will be put up shortly. The individual battle scenario may or may not give special restrictions on troops.

Being a detailed description of the first battle, told by Morod the Red, a priest and historian of Brahmu.

In the 400th Year of the Pharaoh there was rebellion in Odawal. I was there the summer before, and saw with my own eyes the indulgent pleasures that had befallen the city. The Odawalites have a little bit of civilized learning in them, which rivals all of the better cities in Hikuptah, but they have suffered long from the same vice that plagues all Hikuptans: the Odawalites confuse nobility with pampering, and dilute their good traits by always chasing after this perfume or that gilded chariot. I have seen one man beating his breast in the street because another man took one of his finer robes in a dice game, even though he still wore a robe which I could see was more expensive than the one he lost. I offered him my own robe and a clap on the ear, but he only spat at my feet and left to beat his breast somewhere else.

Because of this vice, the people of Odawal became wretched, and were like dogs snapping at the heels of sheep and begging their master for scraps of food. This means that the sheep are the pious people and priests, and the master is Wohahat, where every person in Odawal wishes he lived. The temples were without offerings, except when someone took a rich calf and said, 'Look, I am giving this rich calf for the offering.' The worst offence, however, came on the third holy day of the year, when the High Priest went with his slave to buy new clothes instead of beginning the day's offering on time. The good priests were enraged, and later that day one of the lammasu statues who guard the city gates began to crumble. We knew this was a sign that the lammasu spirits had forsaken Odawal, and we left the city and returned to Brahmu.

The Angel of Death began to visit the homes because there were no lammasu to keep it away, and the people grew restless and angry. They asked the Satrap to rebuild the statues, but he ignored them. The Satrap—this is Astelax, who is still Satrap and a man of the Nomarch such as few are these days—said to them, 'You spend your money on rich living rather than on offerings. Spend your money on offerings and the lammasu will return.' This is what he said.

Now Satrap Astelax was building his palace at that time, which was not yet complete. He had sent architects to the Pharaoh's Own City, so that they could model his palace on one of the minor palaces there, the one that rests at the foot of the western hill. Those who despised Astelax saw this and heaped blame upon him for sending his slaves to build his palace instead of rebuilding the statues. When his taxmen came to their doors they called him the Nomarch's lapdog, and asked if he would send the Angel of Death if they did not pay their taxes.

This is how things went that year, until the High Priest and several others declared that Astelax was not fit to rule Odawal. They brought forth Brielsunat, who was once a High Priestess in Wohahat and a distant cousin of the Nomarch, and tried to make her the Satrap. They could not do so, and Astelax expelled them from the city. From there they travelled to Verapadra and stayed there to gather up an army. Then they marched to Odawal, but tricked the Satrap into believing that they would attack the city. His guards were placed all along the outer wall, but they saw no enemy, except for a messenger who came running from the east to tell them that the rebels were marching along the river, destroying the villages and boats as they went. The Satrap was angered and sent his army to destroy the rebellion.

• Foot: 1-18 figures (Normal), 19-24 figures (Stupid), 25-30 figures (Stupid -1), 31-50 figures (Stupid -2)
• Mounted: 1-12 figures (Normal), 13-18 figures (Stupid), 19-24 figures (Stupid -1), 25-30 figures (Stupid -2)

• In direct contact: roll your LD or the unit captain's LD (1D6, need ≤LD). Pass = OK, Fail = order delayed until next turn.
• Within 6" and with line of sight/hearing: roll the unit captain's LD or your LD-1. Pass = order received, Fail = GM rolls again to see if 1-3) delayed, 4-5) misinterpreted, 6) ignored/unable to comply. The delay may be 1, 2 or even 3 turns. If the unit has no captain, switch 'misinterpreted' and 'ignored'.
• Communicating indirectly (message/signal): when the message arrives, roll as above, except your LD is at -2.
• Yes, you can use subordinate commanders (as in, 'Hey, you! Take this order and go make sure all of those units over there get the message!').
• You can set up a strict chain of command in your roster—for example, make one captain the commanding officer of several other units/captains. That way you can give orders to one captain, who will relay it to those in his command, and so on.

smiler666 wrote:I'll join in as well. It'd actually be cool for these arena battles, and their results, to become part of the lore and history of the world we're playing in.

lordfalco wrote:do we need to multiply all our ost by some for those bodyguards?
i roleld all for a char. except the nobility rank stuff(even race is random)