Welcome to the Events of the Imperial Army (Kaiserliches Heer)
Every Friday and every second Sunday a Linebattle will be fought. The same ruleset applies for both events. Sunday might have some special events (Siege, Conquest, Naval...) from time to time.
General Rules
Officeraim is not allowed! |
Fire in Charge is not allowed! |
Reload in Charge is not allowed! |
You are counted as in a charge, when one of your men was hit, holding a block, or holding an attack. |
To not be in a charge anymore, you need to clearly distance yourself from the fighting area. |
Move and Shoot in Formation! |
No crouching! |
Only two Officers per Regiment. |
Flag bearer and musicians are allowed, but count as a regular man. |
Officers are not allowed to pick up weapons! |
The chat is only to be used for necessary stuff. We might slay/kick/ban without warnings. |
Stupid comments in the chat regarding slays/kicks/bans will be punished aswell! |
Allcharge means: no shooting. |
The admin might dismount the cavalry in allcharge for balancing. |
Close Combat Rules
Close Combat Areas will be defined by the admin in the beginning of the linebattle! |
Artillery positions are Close Combat Areas by default! |
You may crouch in Close Combat Areas! |
Attackers of a Close Combat Area may shoot in charge! |
Defenders of a Close Combat Area may shoot and reload in charge! |
Special Rules for some Classes
[Light Infantry] May crouch. |
[Light Infantry] May have up to 2 men spacing. |
[Light Infantry] Still has to move and shoot in formation. |
[Light Infantry] Seeing them standing behind a hill and seeing soldiers moving up, shooting and moving down on their own, will be slayed. |
[Cavalry] When dismounted, but still enough to form an own unit, cavalry follows rules the of light infantry. |
[Cavalry] Your men are absolutly prohibited to leave a charge on their own to charge a near unit, that is clearly not part of your actual charge. |
[Rifles] May crouch. |
[Rifles] May have up to 4 men spacing. |
[Rifles] May move and shoot without formation. |
[Rifles] FiC and RiC allowed. |
[Rifles] May not pick up Muskets. |
[Rifles] If you tell the admins before the event starts, you can bring up to 12 men, but you are not allowed anymore to FiC and RiC (except for CC like everyone else). |
[Artillery] Can use cannons/howitzers, in total up to 2 |
[Artillery] May aim for the officers with their cannons |
[Artillery] May get officeraimed aswell |
[Artillery] Sapper is not allowed to use explosives or bugs (planks-bug, earthwall-bug) |
Unit sizes (also some rules)Line Infantry: | 3-30 |
Light Infantry: | 3-12 |
Artillery: | 1-10 |
Cavalry: | 3-15 |
Rifles: | 3-8 |
If you fall lower than the minimum numbers, (dismount and) join another unit of the same class, or a unit of a class above your own class in the upper list, or the artillery.
Officers are included in these numbers.
No exceptions will be made to these numbers.
Important (read this under all circumstances)We meet at 18:30 GMT (19:30 CET) in teamspeak. You will always be asked, if you read the rules (all 4 parts of it) and also passed them on to your men. Missing the meeting does not exempt you from to confirm the reading and passing of the rules, you automaticly do it by attending the event. Rulebreakings may be punished without warnings and regiments might gather strikes, which might lead to a ban from the event, if you gather too many. The event starts exactly at 19:00 GMT (20:00 CET). If you, or your men come too late, you might miss the first round.Teamspeak: kaiserlichesheer.euProcedure30 - Meeting (make sure to include your regimental tag into your TS-name)
40/45 - Password will be set and people can join the server and play freely if they want
50 - Till now final map will be found and set and officers already on the server can now vote to keep or change it
55 - Everyone will be swapped to spec and teams will be assigned
00 - Linebattle starts, regiments or soldiers not on the server yet, might miss the first round