Another progress report about my Portable Belle Époque Wargame rules (3)

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, the significant changes I am making to THE GATLING'S JAMMED rules from THE PORTABLE COLONIAL WARGAME book are as follows:

• Machine guns a treated like artillery and have their own fire phase.
• The number of units a general can activate each turn is subject to a degree of randomness that depends upon their ability.
• A timescale has been introduced.

The section that deals with the third of these currently reads as follows:

Timescale

• The game day is divided into eight daytime turns and a night turn.
• Each turn represents the time taken for two activation cards (one for each side) to be turned over and the relevant activations to take place.
• Dawn (6.00am to 8.00am)
• Early morning (8.00am to 10.00am)
• Late morning (10.00am to Midday)
• Noon (Midday to 2.00pm)
• Early afternoon (2.00pm to 4.00pm)
• Late afternoon (4.00pm to 6.00pm)
• Early evening (6.00pm to 8.00pm)
• Late evening (8.00pm to 10.00pm)
• Night (10.00pm to 6.00am)
• Battles usually start at dawn, but players may wish to randomise the start time.
• No fighting is allowed during the night turn and therefore not activation cards are turned over.
• Units may move once during the night turn without needing to be activated but may not move into a grid area that is adjacent to the front, flank, or rear of enemy unit.
• During the night turn, units that have not been destroyed may regain a lost Strength Point (SP) by rolling one D6 die per unit.
• Elite units add 1 to their D6 die score and Poor units deduct 1 from their D6 die score.
• Results:
• D6 die score = 5 or more: The unit regains 1 SP.
• D6 die score = 4 or less: The unit does not regain any lost SPs.