Dragon Rampant Unit Question

[Onebigriver]

Hi, I'm building forces for Dragon Rampant at the moment, and I'm hoping someone can clarify something for me. Is it possible to have say a unit of six foot soldiers and six strength points as well as having units of 12 foot soldiers for 12 strength points in the same warband, and should the army building points be the same for both units? E.g. If I had a unit of 12 orc warriors and a unit of 6 orc warriors, with 12 strength points and 6 strength points, will the army points cost still be 4 for eqach unit?

Thanks

[Hobgoblin]

It depends on what type of unit those orc warriors are. Strength points give you complete flexibility over how many models a unit of any type contains (so you could have one unit of Heavy Foot represented by four large orcs and one represented by 16 small orcs, with each having 12 strength points). But the number of starting strength points depends on unit type:

Elite Foot: 6 strength points
Light Foot: 12 strength points
Heavy Foot: 12 strength points
Bellicose Foot: 12 strength points
Light Missiles: 12 strength points
Heavy Missiles: 12 strength points
Scouts: 6 strength points.
Ravenous Hordes: 12 strength points

(all from memory)

Most cavalry units have 6 strength points.

The simplest way to represent strength points is one figure, one strength points. But there's no need for that (you could have a single troll representing 6 strength points of Elite Foot or 12 of Bellicose Foot, for example).

The points cost stems from the unit type, not the strength points. So Elite Foot cost 6 points (without upgrades) while Heavy Foot cost 12 and Scouts cost 2. So the cost of your two orc units would depend entirely on what type they were (they could be the same or different, regardless of the number of figures).

If you aren't using one figure/one strength point, you have to track strength points in some way (small dice, tokens, five-bar gates on a bit of paper, etc.).

[Hobgoblin]

To clarify the above, here's a sample 24-point orc warband:

Orc warlord (Elite Foot, single-model unit): 6 points (1 figure)

Orc archers (Light Missiles): 4 points (12 figures)

Orc berserkers (Bellicose Foot): 4 points (12 figures)

Hill trolls (Bellicose Foot): 4 points (3 figures)

Orc guard (Elite Foot): 6 points (6 figures)

In the above, the hill trolls and the orc berserkers are mechanically identical (both Bellicose Foot, which means 12 strength points). The only difference, apart from the visuals, is in the removal of casualties. With the berserkers, you take a figure off whenever they lose a strength point; with the trolls, you note 'casualties' in some way and probably remove one figure after they've lost four strength points and two once they're down to six or less (which means they fight with 6 dice rather than 12).

[Onebigriver]

Thanks guys.