Memoir '44

This entry uses original two-player base rules. Follow the chosen scenario for board side, terrain, obstacles, deployments, and objectives. Standard infantry has four figures, armor three, artillery two. Scenario instructions specify special troops, command hand sizes, starting side, and medal target; six medals is not a universal condition.

Each turn plays one command card, declares every ordered unit, moves ordered units, resolves battles unit by unit, then discards and draws one card. Section cards use left/center/right; a hex crossed by a dividing red line belongs to either adjacent section. Order a unit at most once per turn; unused orders are lost.

Complete all movement before battling, moving one unit fully at a time. Standard infantry moves one and battles or two without battle; armor moves up to three and battles; artillery moves one or battles in place. No moving through occupied hexes, stacking, splitting figures, or merging depleted units. Terrain and specific cards can alter these limits.

Ordered units may decline movement or battle. Normally battle at most once and do not divide dice among targets. A unit adjacent to enemies must choose an adjacent target if it battles rather than firing farther away. One remaining figure retains the unit’s ordinary firepower.

Infantry ranges three hexes with 3/2/1 dice; armor ranges three with three dice at each distance; artillery ranges six with 3/3/2/2/1/1. Infantry and armor require center-to-center line of sight; artillery does not. Intervening units and designated terrain block sight; terrain in the target hex does not hide the target from itself.

Calculate the full dice allowance after range and terrain before rolling. Matching troop symbols and grenades each hit; stars normally miss unless a card says otherwise. Remove one figure per hit, ignoring excess hits. Resolve casualties before flags. Removing the last figure normally earns a medal.

Each unignored flag requires one retreat hex toward your board edge. Do not pass through units, impassable terrain, or ocean. Normal terrain movement restrictions are ignored during retreat; each impossible retreat hex costs a figure. Choose a legal route maximizing completed retreat distance rather than deliberately taking losses to stay close.

After a successful close assault eliminates or displaces the enemy, infantry may take the vacated ground. Armor must take ground to make one additional Armor Overrun battle, and may take ground again after success, but gains at most one extra battle per turn. Artillery cannot take ground. Terrain still applies, so entering a forest or town prevents another battle.

Entering base forests or towns stops movement and prevents battle that turn. Against occupants, infantry loses one die, armor two, artillery none. Against a target on a hill, infantry/armor attacking from lower ground lose one die; artillery does not, and equal-height attacks have no hill reduction. Terrain/obstacle defensive reductions do not add together: use the best protection. Sandbags can still separately ignore the first flag.

End immediately when a side meets scenario victory conditions, without finishing the turn, taking ground, or Armor Overrun. Scenario objectives specify whether medals require continued occupation; do not assume permanence. Reshuffle discards when the command deck runs out. Explicit scenario and command-card exceptions override general procedures.