episode_0006

March 187. Jeokma Dormitory Plaza.

After much thought, Mina chose the maids stationed in the west.

“I will choose this Red Demon House made unit.

Indira. Can you explain what they can do?”

“Common actions that all units can perform include walking, leaving, charging, shooting, striking, focusing, casting, and missioning.”

“I just saw the walk. The rest…”

Mina quickly flipped through the booklet.

leave

All models in the unit have up to 4cm of movement to break up close contact.

If you cannot break the close contact by moving 4 cm, you cannot break away.

charge

All models in the unit move in a straight line equal to their movement power.

If you come into contact with an enemy as a result of this movement, you can strike without consuming any action power.

You can only charge once per turn. You cannot charge while in close proximity.

shooting

Every model of the unit chooses one of its shooting armaments to attack enemy units within range.

However, models that cannot draw a diagonal line to any model of the target enemy unit cannot be fired.

Units in close proximity cannot fire. When shooting at a unit that is close to a friendly unit, the accuracy is lowered by 2, and an attack that fails* will hit the friendly unit.

*Great success: If the die rolls a 1 / Great failure: If the dice rolls a 10

damage

The unit’s models select one of their strike weapons and attack enemy models they come into contact with.

Before striking, all models of the unit can move up to 4 cm. This movement is called ‘contiguous movement’.

Contact movement must be done so that the unit’s models are in contact with more enemy models; if such movement cannot be done, contact movement is invalid.

You cannot hit unless you are close.

Concentration

The unit rerolls as much of its mana as desired.

You can’t concentrate when you’re in close contact.

cast

Units pay mana to cast spells they know.

(Casting is an action of the entire unit, not an individual model.)

Operations

Perform the mission outlined in the strategy or story.

You cannot operate while in close proximity.

“Hmm. There’s nothing you can do when you’re close.”

close condition

If one or more of a unit’s models are in contact with an enemy model, it is in close contact.

First of all, there are no models that are close at the moment.

The maids have a movement power of 14cm, and the throwing dagger, which is a shooting weapon, has a range of 24cm.

The closest enemy now, Graven, is over 50cm away. That is, outside the threat range.

then…

“Do we need more time?”

“No. That’s enough. I declared walking. I will move the maids forward 14cm.”

“Be careful not to break unit adjacency. At the end of the movement, all models must be within 4cm of two of their fellow models.”

“I know.”

She carefully held the base as she had been taught, and advanced the maids toward the center.

“Lady. Red Demon House maids have the ability to sprint and shoot.”

“Uh, that’s right. Thanks for letting me know.”

sprint shooting

After this model charges, you can shoot without consuming action as long as you are not in close range.

“14cm If you advance further, the distance from Graven is a narrow 23cm.

So, since you are within the range of the throwing dagger, you want to tell me to attack?”

“You are astute as expected.”

“No, I won’t do that.”

Graven raised his eyebrows at Mina’s declaration.

“Why?”

“Right now that model is protected by a blood shield.

I haven’t looked at the attack rules in detail yet, but I think it will be difficult to do much damage.

And if you advance 12cm further from here, you will be going too deep into enemy territory.

There are four enemy units that haven’t acted yet, it’s too dangerous.

The second action is to walk 1cm!”

“Lady, that’s a really great decision!”

“Ohhh!”

A cool-headedness that cannot be imagined as the judgment of a novice who does not know all the rules.

Amid the exclamations of Jeokma Hall students, Mina moved the maids and ended her turn.

The turns that followed were not that different.

The two moved their units forward and prepared to fight, but they didn’t go out of their way to give it a try.

Therefore, the units ended their turn face to face without attacking each other.

“End of round 1. The ending stage is divided into a purification stage, a scoring stage, and a final stage.

During the purification stage, all status and spell effects end.

Well, I can keep it… but this time I’ll just quit it.”

Graven removed the Blood Shield token next to his model.

“What is the scoring team?”

“This is a stage that occurs during a mission to gain victory points, but this game is not a mission, but rather an annihilation battle where all you have to do is kill the enemy, so it doesn’t matter.

There are no effects occurring at the final stage, so the final stage ends.”

“Then it’s round 2 now.”

“Okay. This game starts now.”

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October 186. Student council room.

“The vice president is tired so he can’t come out today.”

“Isn’t it painful?”

“I didn’t say anything like that.”

“I guess I should at least give you some tonic later.”

Chairman Lilac arranged the models Cleo brought on the table.

The first test game consisted of chess pieces, not models.

After dividing the pieces into black and white, I roughly wrote down the abilities of each piece.

Cleo went to stand on the corner of the table where the white pieces were lined up, and I stood on the side where the black pieces were.

“We’re just seeing how the game progresses, so let’s take it easy.”

“Okay. As turn 1 progresses, let’s say the two units are close together.”

Cleo gently pushes the sample models and places them at an appropriate distance.

I took out my tape measure and prepared to measure the distance.

“Now let’s demonstrate plan A.

Assuming that you took the lead in the front-end, enter the magic stage, and roll the magic dice.”

I rolled the units’ magic dice and recorded the mana that came out.

“Maintenance team ended. End of startup phase. The battle phase begins.

Order group. Casting a spell.

The black bishop casts fire spell #1 on the white knights with just one fire mana.

The black queen casts land spell #3 on the white knights with two land mana.

The black knight casts beast spell #1 on the black queen with just one beast mana.

End of ordering.”

The White Knight is a unit made up of three models, each with 5 health.

As a result of being hit by a spell bombardment, the remaining health is 1, 2, and 5, respectively.

“The shooting team begins.

The black bishop, queen, and knight all shoot at the white knight.”

After making the attack and defense rolls, a total of 3 damage was dealt and both models were wiped clean.

“Firing team ended. The assault group begins.

The black bishop charges at the white knight, and the black queen charges at the white queen.

The Black Queen’s charge distance increases by 6cm and the enemy’s movement distance increases by 2cm due to the effect of Beast Spell #1.

Charge move. Charge completed. Skirmish movement completed. The assault group ends. When the strike team-”

“Stop.”

At the chairman’s cracked voice, I folded the tape measure and looked up.

She had a face like a sheet of paper.

Lilac stumbled and sat down on the sofa.

“Ha. ha. Haha.”

“Chairman?”

Cleo went to his side and patted his back.

But Lilac’s breathing did not calm down.

She trembled like an aspen and clutched her neck.

I quickly took off the chairman’s cape and rolled it up to make a hood.

Then she brought it to her mouth.

“Chairman. Breathe slowly.”

It would have been most effective to have an envelope, but for now, this will be used as first aid.

After a while, the chairman’s breathing became softer.

“…Thank you.”

“Are you okay?”

“Yes. Just… don’t do option A.

That’s not students, that’s the military.”

Although I have never been to a battlefield, I know that this world is entering the era of line infantry.

The military doctrine is a magic showdown between wizards, and a volley of fire followed by a sharp sword charge.

Did the Chairman think of an actual battlefield scene from the battle method in plan A?

Before I even had time to think about it, she woke up smiling as if she had never hyperventilated.

“Now. Forget about this, let’s quickly test plan B and plan C.”

“Yes? Yes…”

Cleo looked at me with anxious eyes.

There were a lot of things I wanted to ask, but I didn’t think it would be polite to ask questions when he didn’t tell me, so I set up the models again without saying a word.

The draft for plan B was done by Cleo, not me.

“-Maintenance team ended. End of startup phase. The battle phase begins.

1st selection. I’ll choose the back look.

I will spend one mana to cast Sun Spell #1 targeting the Black Queen.

Next, move by 10cm, don’t shoot since you don’t have a shooting weapon, give up charging, give up hitting…

Let’s move on to the next model. After selecting the back queen -”

The chairman raised his hand and interrupted the flow.

“I don’t think this method is very good.

Since all models are trying to perform one spell, one move, one shot, and one hit, there are too many actions that are overlooked.

Models who act for the first time will give up charging because charging the enemy will interfere with their allies’ line of fire.”

I nodded at her point.

“How about using the action system?”

“Ability to act?”

“It allows the unit to freely perform two actions.

You can cast a spell twice, move twice, mix spells and strikes, and so on.”

“Oh. It’s a good idea. I like it.”

I questioned her cautiously.

“Do you like the fact that the units, or rather the students, can move freely?

Unlike disciplined adults, kids fight as they please.”

silence.

When I looked up to see if I had said something wrong, Lilac was staring intently at my face.

“Chairman?”

“Yes. That… I really like that.”

“Then, I think the Chairman will like Plan C, which applies action points.

If you take turns maneuvering units, improvisation becomes more important than planning, and the chaos of enemies and allies fighting together will be better expressed.”

“Okay. First, let’s take a direction in that direction.”

Lilac tapped my shoulder and left the student council room, humming happily.

But somehow, that hum sounded sad to me.

I took out my notebook and took notes.

‘Avoid rules reminiscent of battlefield situations.

Let’s not include things like morale or leadership decisions.’