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In this battle we use the Infidel command system mechanic.  Where each leader rolls against his or her (well you never know) leadership rating. In Infidel the ratings were lower than the GBoH guys, so I was initially worried. In reflection the thing worked out pretty well.

Alex had an out right advantage with a rating of 7. After each activation if you desire to activate another formation you roll for that leader and add 1 for each previous formation activated (except first), roll under off you go, roll over you are done and the enemy has a free activation.

So given that Alex was an Elite Ldr I chose to let him go first and allow him to activate any leader in his command radius.  Being a SGBoH player I looked to it as a measure of reasonableness not GBoH as much.  AtG’s generals are all pretty good 4-5-6’s verus 3-4’s of Rome.

However the free activations when the Greeks failed allowed every unit a chance to get going. If Rome obeyed the letter of the law under SGBoH it was possible for them to activate HA/PR together – we continued that practice, it meant the primary general used his activation, then he had to rely on lower levelleaders to roll 3/4 or under with on a subsequent activations was challenging.

On the whole the Greek/Roman activation of formations looked like this:

2 Greek 1 Roman

2 Greek 2 Roman

1 Greek 1 Roman

2 Greek 2 Roman

1 Greek 1 Roman

2 Greek.

so  9v7. The Romans have a tricky time activating in GBoH, and are limited in SGBoH too.

I think with some tweaks from smart players the Infidel command and control system could be readily applied to GBoH.

I had heard that SGBoH was coming out with a rules revision, but have seen no drafts or evidence of when.

I am planning on testing with more battles and different situations to see if this makes sense to use and does not skew the action too badly.