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Designed By: Robert Dougherty
Chad Ellis
Published By: Your Move Games
# of Players: 2 - 2
Playing Time: 60 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 12 and up
Category: Wargame
Fantasy
Card Game
Mechanics: Dice Rolling
Action Point Allowance System
Other Names: N/A

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Battleground: Fantasy Warfare is a point-based table-top tactical wargame in which units are represented by cards instead of a collection of figures or models. We bring you all the charging, flanking and intricate maneuvering of a great wargame in a convenient package for a fraction of the cost.

As the general of a fantasy army of Men, Orcs, Elves or whatever faction you choose, you will muster your forces and command them in battle. You will have an agreed-upon number of points to spend on your army, which will determine the size of the battle. You and your opponent will then take turns deploying your forces on the battlefield. Finally you will give them their orders and the battle begins.

During play you will have a limited number of Command Actions each turn – one for every 500 points available for building your army. These Command Actions represent what you can do as a general. You can spend them to change a unit’s orders or take direct control of a unit for a turn, rally routed units, draw cards that can provide small combat bonuses or to use your special army ability.

Unlike most tabletop wargames where you have complete control over every soldier’s actions, Battleground puts you in the role of a true general. Your troops are loyal and will obey your orders but you can’t be everywhere so you have to spend your resources carefully!

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0 Battleground Play Aids
bgfw-play-aids.pdf
A complete set of documents to print out and use as reference while playing. Including one quick cheat sheet, a detailed turn sequence reference, standing orders summary, how to setup a game, and a mini glossary. Everything is based on version 2.2 of the rules.
4 Battleground Unit Summaries
unit_lists_v080126.zip
This ZIP file contains complete game text and statistics (including army abilities) for the following factions: Dwarves of Runegard, Elves of Ravenwood, High Elves, Lizardmen, Men of Hawkshold, Orc Army, Umenzi Tribesmen, Undead Army). The files are in PDF format.
2 Battleground Command Card Reference
command_card_reference_v080126.pdf
Know Thy Enemy! This 4-page PDF contains the text of all current Command Cards grouped by faction with the composition of every faction's 30-card Command Deck. Also included is a summary of how many cards of each colour are in each Command Deck. Note: cards of a dual disposition are counted twice (e.g. a blue/red card is counted once for blue and again for red) so the totals for these factions will exceed 30.
0 Regolamento ver. 2.2 (in italiano ver. 1.0)
Battleground - Regolamento ver. 2.2 (ita 1.0).pdf
Ver. 1.0 della traduzione in italiano del regolamento base e avanzato ver. 2.2 di Battleground. Include la traduzione di tutte le carte del gioco. [Ver. 1.0 of the Italian translation of Battlegroun basic and advanced rulebook ver. 2.2. It includes the translation of all game cards.]
1 Terrain and combat modifiers summary
BGFW Terrain and Combat v.1.2.pdf
This version has been updated to include the 2.2 rules.
1 Unit Stats Summary
Battleground Unit Stats.pdf
This version includes Men, Orcs, Undead, Elves, and Dwarves. Both Starter and Reinforcement units are included.
1 Unit Orders Summary
BGFW Orders v. 1.1.pdf
This version is based on the 2.2 rules, which removes the "Stay in Line" order with "Sound the Charge" and "Maximum Move" orders.
0 Ork Army Tuckbox to use with standard card sleeves v.1.0
Tuckbox_Ork_Army.pdf
Did you think to put your Ork Standard Deck and Reinforcements cards in standard card sleeves? And then what? Where do you put them now? The original boxes will not be able to hold them anymore so this is one box to carry this army around, while the cards are well protected inside those sleeves. Just print this PDF and cut along the edges and use double sided tape (I worked this is to be the best method but YMMV) to put them all together.
0 Tuckbox to use with standard card sleeves v.1.0
Tuckbox_Men_of_Hawkshold.pdf
Did you think to put your Men of Hawkshold cards in standard card sleeves? And then what? Where do you put them now? The original boxes will not be able to hold them anymore so this is one box to carry this army around, while the cards are well protected inside those sleeves. Just print this PDF and cut along the edges and use double sided tape (I worked this is to be the best method but YMMV) to put them all together.
9 BGFW Army Creator Version 1.1
BGFW_Army_Creator-11.zip
Stand alone Visual Basic program and pdf instructions for creating armies for Battleground Fantasy Warfare. Full data for Dwarves of Runegard & Umenzi Tribesmen and partial data for Lizardmen has been added to version 1.1. The created army configurations can be saved and printed. * Saved information for created army includes: Army Size (points), # of each unit, custom army name and a text area for user notes. * Printed information includes: Information for each unit (number, points, name and special abilities), total points used, specific racial abilities of the army, user notes, army size, # starter & reinforcement decks, type of army design, total units, # core units and if Elite count is OK.