Strategic Movement Rules

100yds / hex
100secs / turn

This scale was chosen so that we could use the fatigue rules on the sidebar pB134: roll vs. HT every 100yds, failure = -1 fatigue. This is not affected by encumbrance.

So we start expanding that rule. If you are walking it would take 100secs to go 100yds, so a 100sec turn. We want a graduated HT roll based on how fast you want to move. Since it is a flat HT-0 roll at full move, then for every yd/sec slower that you go, you get a +1 to your HT roll. Thus if your current move is 6 and you are walking (move 1) then you make your HT roll at +5. So a character with a high move has an easier time of walking at 1hx/turn.

an example - Joe has DX:12, HT:11, 1xp in Running and he is wearing Leather armor = Light encumbrance; his current move is 5. He enters a combat arena 2 miles across and the prize point is near the center, about 1700 yds or 17 strategic hexes (hx) away. He starts walking. It will take him 17 turns and he will make 1 HT roll every turn at +4: 15. Pretty good odds. After the first turn, he sees his opponent running toward the prizepoint and so must decide how fast he wants to cover the remaining 16 hxs...

If he runs full out, move 5, he will get there in less than to turns (140secs to be exact). But he will have to make 16 HT rolls flat. At a HT 11 he will miss at least a third of those rolls on average, and arrive with 5 or more fatigue. If he were a magician, this would not be good. If the GM is enforcing damage based on current ST (i.e. reduced by fatigue) this also would not be good. If he got a little unlucky he would be at half move. There is a non-trivial (~25% ?) that he would collapse before he got there.
If he trots at 3hx / turn, he will roll vs. HT+2, or 13. He will take 3 fatigue on average but the chance to collapse goes to something near 2%.

Critical Failure

On a critical failure you may take actual injury: sprained ankle, cut knee, stubbed toe, etc. Roll vs DX (modified below), failure = 1 pt damage, armor does not protect. Modifiers:

-1 / 5pts you missed your HT roll by (truncated). I.e. if your modified HT roll was at 12 and you rolled a 17, then you will be at DX-1. If your modified DX was 13 and you rolled a 17, then you will be at DX-0.
skills:
-1 if you don't have Hiking
-1 if you don't have any Survival skill
+1 if you have the appropriate Survival skill

hx / turn	max move
hx / turn	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	~	~	~	~	~	~	~	-1
8	~	~	~	~	~	~	-1	+0
7	~	~	~	~	~	-1	+0	+1
6	~	~	~	~	-1	+0	+1	+2
5	~	~	~	-1	+0	+1	+2	+3
4	~	~	-1	+0	+1	+2	+3	+4
3	~	-1	+0	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
2	-1	+0	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6
1	+0	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7

terrain	mod
clear	-1
grass	-2
rough	-3
shrubs	-4
forest	-2..-4
sawgrass	-5
road negates terrain mod

Slope

Hills have a steepness rating: 0, 1, 2, 3. More than that is a cliff which requires a climbing roll handled seperately.

uphill - make as many extra HT rolls as the steepness rating. So if Joe runs up a 100 yd 3x hill, he will probably take more than one fatigue.

downhill - subtract the hill steepness from your DX roll on critical failures.