Blue boxes like this one present the rules set up specifically for this site: what it applies differently from the rulebook, or what it specifies where the rulebook says nothing.

• No defensive fire (in Vikings, player B may shoot at side A's characters while they move): this limits the back and forth between the two players, each one plays a whole turn in one go.
• Crossbowmen (absent from Vikings) follow the base rules: they shoot in sequence 1, and a crossbowman who has shot does not move in sequence 2.

A stunned or dead enemy does not count (it cannot attack); neither does an enemy behind a wall. Through a window, it counts (combat is possible through a window).

To keep the calculations simple, terrain boundaries are the sides of the hexes. For example, the line of fire is not checked against the drawing of a wall: the side of the hex is the limit of the real wall.

On this piece of the Village map, in red, the walls as the site counts them: the sides of the hexes. The green shot goes over drawn stones but crosses no red side: it is allowed. The red shot seems to run alongside the drawn wall, but it crosses a red side (the cross): it is blocked.

• The line of fire is shown on screen when a target is chosen.
• When the line of fire runs exactly along the side between two hexes, or exactly through a corner, there is no telling which side it passes on. It then counts as crossing every hex it touches: if there is an obstacle (tree, wall, character) in any of them, the shot is blocked. The benefit of the doubt goes to the target.

Here, the line of fire runs exactly along the side between two hexes (outlined in orange): open ground above, a tree below. It counts as crossing both hexes: the tree blocks it (the cross), even though it seems to pass beside it.

The crossbow (absent from Vikings) uses the Magna Carta ranges: 1 to 15 hexes normal roll, 16 to 30 hexes +1, 31 to 75 hexes +2; beyond that, no shot. It never shoots over a character, even at long range (see Characters, below).

Table symbols. In the results tables, the letters of the rulebook are replaced by symbols, which are easier to read. In blue, the attacker suffers the result; in red, the defender or the target.

Against a rider, the rulebook letters are different: each symbol reads the same way, and the horse head is added when the horse is killed.

• This table is identical to the base rules table for the bow.
• The "heavy" column is not used by any terrain on our maps for now.
• The crossbow (absent from Vikings) uses the Magna Carta table, the same as the bow's but read 4 rows higher ("bow 1" = "crossbow 5"): much deadlier, especially at close range. Armoured target: +1 to the die, as for the bow.

• The rider always has the stronger cover of his two hexes; either hex may be targeted.
• The crossbow uses the Magna Carta table, read 4 rows higher than the bow (as on foot): at close range it can also give (horse unhurt, rider killed) and (horse and rider killed):

The retreat is automatic: each step moves away from the shooter; the path needing the fewest infiltration tests is chosen, then the one that pushes no one; a friend moved aside moves one hex; a stunned friend is never pushed (he would be killed).

Houses: shooting through a door. A shot from a door hex starts from the centre of the hex (our door hexes have several open sides, so there is no single "opening").

Houses: cover. A target inside a building has medium cover when shot at through a door or a window. A target on a door or courtyard entrance hex always has medium cover, whichever side the shooter is on.

The crossbow (base rules) never shoots over a standing character.

The top of the slope is the hex side between the slope (the slope hex) and the ground above it. A character on that side, above the slope, is higher; a character on the other side, on the slope or below it, is lower.

• If the shooter and the target are each at the top of a slope, with a dip between them, they are at the same height: the shot is allowed.
• If the line crosses several slopes rising in the same direction, like steps, the distance rule applies to each of them.

• Going through a window costs 3 points, plus the cost of the hex entered, so 4 points to enter a house. The base rules said that wounded characters could no longer go through a window: this is not applied (wounded characters have 4 points).
• The pool on the Crossroads map is impassable to everyone, for now. Vikings distinguishes deep water (where characters can drown) from shallow water (where they can stand); this rule may be added later.
• The mounted costs of the table (slope 4; tree, interior, window and door impassable) apply to riders; see also 7. Mounted characters for turning.

A move may not end on a stunned enemy's hex; an icon marks hexes with 3 and 6 dead; dead horses will come with the horses.

• A stunned enemy is not "able to attack": it does not trigger a test.
• A mule (attack strength 0) cannot attack: it does not trigger a test. Only characters do.
• When a character is selected to move, each hex shows the number of tests needed to get there, and the path followed is automatically the least risky (then the cheapest).
• A character wounded by a test continues to the chosen hex; if killed, he falls on the hex of the test.
• A rider is only tested for the hex of its head (special case 1). An enemy rider threatens the hexes next to its head and to its hindquarters, with a single die.

• After each step, the head is on the chosen hex. The hindquarters take the head's former hex when they touch it; otherwise (hexes behind the hindquarters), they stay put: the horse pivots on its hindquarters. On an about-turn on the spot, head and hindquarters swap places.
• Both the head and the hindquarters must always be on hexes allowed to horses, never on a standing enemy. Friends may be crossed but not stopped on.
• To move a rider, each hex its head can reach is split into six parts: clicking a part chooses the hex of the head and the side it faces. The red number in a part gives the number of infiltration tests; on hover, the rider appears transparently at its arrival position, and its cost is shown at the top. The path followed is the least risky, then the cheapest.

The booklets give these distances, but not how to move a two-hex counter. On the site:

Retreat. The horse does not turn round: for each hex of retreat, the head and the hindquarters slide together one hex in the same direction, and the horse keeps its facing. It must move away from the opponent: after each hex, it is farther from the nearest enemy (in melee, among those of the combat; for a shot, from the shooter). Both the head and the hindquarters arrive on hexes allowed to horses, with no wall to cross, never on an enemy; it may cross a friend but not stop on one (a horse does not push its friends). In melee, neither hex may touch an enemy of the combat. When several retreats are possible, the choice is automatic: the fewest infiltration tests (judged on the head), then the farthest from the opponent, then preferably towards the hindquarters. If no retreat is possible, the rider stays where it is and is wounded.

Advance. The head first enters the hex left by the enemy (or the hex of the stunned or killed enemy), then advances one or two more hexes; the hindquarters always follow the head. Hexes are counted, not points: no turning cost, but no pivoting on the hindquarters either. As for movement, each possible hex is split into six parts: one click chooses the hex of the head and its facing. Infiltration: only the head counts, and only enemies not engaged in a combat roll the die.

For now, the retreat after a shot is 2 hexes, as on foot: the 4 hexes will come with the shooting table against riders.

Examples (the horse faces north: the head is above the hindquarters)

1. Frontal attack. A foot soldier, north of the head, wins the combat ( result). The horse backs straight towards its hindquarters: the hindquarters move one hex down, the head takes their place. It still faces north, towards the enemy.
2. Flank attack. The enemy is south-east of the head. Backing straight would not take it far enough: the horse slides south-west, to the other side, still facing north.
3. Shot from behind. An archer to the south makes it retreat. Moving away from the shooter means going north: the horse moves two hexes in the direction of its head.
4. Cornered horse. Enemies to the north, north-east, south-east and north-west of the head, a friendly mule to the south-west: no direction takes it away from the opponent without ending next to an enemy or on a friend. The rider does not retreat: it is wounded.
5. Advance. The rider has made an enemy in front of its head retreat. Its head enters the vacated hex, then it may go on one or two hexes, turning if it wishes; it ends with its head on the chosen hex, facing the chosen way.

• The rider is placed automatically on the free hex next to the horse that is farthest from enemies. If no hex is free, he is killed (a friend is not yet moved aside to make room).
• A rider killed in the saddle (by an infiltration test, for example) falls on the hex of the head; his horse stays alone.
• For now, a lone living horse occupies its two hexes: nobody may cross or stop there, and it does not move (mounting, leading by the bridle and attacking a lone horse will come later). A dead horse counts as 3 dead men on each of its two hexes.

A preview shows the odds before the attack is confirmed.

If the terrain brings the odds below 1 to 1, the combat is impossible (the rule says nothing about this case), except with the option "Attacks possible below 1 to 1" (see under the melee table on foot). With the Sherwood table, if chosen (see below), any attack is allowed.

• Never several attackers against several defenders; each attacker must be in contact with each defender.
• Several defenders on different terrains use the most favourable one.
• When a result hits only one character, that character is always drawn at random instead of being chosen (no pause in the middle of the turn to let anyone choose).

"Through a door": one of the two fighters is on the door hex.

Option: attacks possible below 1 to 1 (Vikings table only, ticked by default when creating the game)

With this option, you can always attack, even at very bad odds, but you risk your life. Two columns are added to the left of the table: 1-2 (the defence is up to twice the attack) and 1-3 (the defence is more than twice the attack, and any even weaker attack). Terrain can also shift an attack into these columns, never further than 1-3. New result: one attacker is killed (drawn at random).

The 1-2 column is the 1-1 column moved up one row, with one attacker killed on a 6; the 1-3 column is the 1-2 column moved up one more row, with a second death: the only good result is to make the enemy retreat.

When creating the game, you choose the combat table. Nothing is ticked in advance.

• Vikings (table above): you divide the attack by the defence (2 to 1, 3 to 1…). No attack below 1 to 1. Advantage: many retreats, few deaths at middling odds, room to manoeuvre; several attackers against a weak defender kill quickly. Drawback: a character weaker than its opponent can never attack it alone.
• Sherwood (table below), the system of the recent boxes of the series (Guiscard, then Sherwood): you subtract the defence from the attack. Any attack is allowed, even when outmatched. Advantage: everyone can attack, and as soon as the points gap is large, combats are bloodier. Drawback: attacking when outmatched puts the attacker at risk (retreat or wound on high rolls), and a strong character against a very weak one kills less quickly than with Vikings.

Terrain and several attackers shift the column as with Vikings. A shift that goes off the table stops at its first or last column. The results are the same.

Against a mounted character (Sherwood), by the same difference (several mounted attackers: one column to the right):

(Sherwood only): horse killed, rider stunned and unhorsed; the other symbols read as in the Vikings mounted table.

• In a game played with the Sherwood table, the Sherwood mounted table is used against a rider (with the other Sherwood tables, above).
• With the option "Attacks possible below 1 to 1", the 1-2 and 1-3 columns are also added to the left of this table, on the same principle and with the same results as for the table on foot.

The retreat hex is chosen automatically (fewest tests, then without pushing a friend, then furthest from the opponents); a friend moved aside moves one hex; a stunned friend is never pushed.

• Only attackers advance: the defender's advance, when it is the attackers who retreat or die, is removed (it would require handing the game over to the defender in the middle of the turn; it is rarely used).
• Hexes are counted, not movement points; walls and impassable terrain remain forbidden.
• "An adjacent hex" (Vikings text): the adjacent hex the enemy has just left, not a hex next to it.
• "Engaged in a combat": in contact with a character of the advancing side, other than the one advancing.

• A rider only attacks if he could ride into a hex of the defender that touches him: no tree, building interior or door, and no attack through a window.
• A rider can be attacked through his head or his hindquarters: touching either of his two hexes is enough.
• A rider and a character on foot cannot be attacked together (neither Vikings nor the Magna Carta say which table to use): attack them separately.