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Roleplayer #30, January 1993
GURPS bat
Generic Land Battle Rules for GURPS
By Brett Slocum
Several GURPS worldbooks have featured rules for resolving large battles and their effects on PCs in a
few die rolls. GURPS Conan, GURPS Horseclans, GURPS Japan and GURPS Vikings all have
systems for land-based bat.
Unfortunately, each product using bat has to repeat all of the rules (7 to 10 pages), even
though most of them are nearly identical. This is a waste of pages, and SJ Games has decreed that it will
stop. Therefore, this article presents the generic portions of these bat rules for use across Tech
Levels, along with two new examples: fantasy battles on Yrth bat in World War I.
This material will appear in a future edition of GURPS Basic, so only a page or two, similar to one of
the examples, will be needed for future worldbooks requiring bat rules.
This system is not a set of "war game rules" for gaming out a long battle in full detail. Instead, it gives
quick answers to the most important questions for a roleplaying campaign: Who won? and What
happened to the PCs? Costs are also given for raising and paying military units, for those campaigns in
which the PCs are, or want to e, military leaders.
Overview
Each military force contains a number of units, each with a single type of fighter. For instance, Megalan
mounted knights and yeoman long bowmen would be treated as two separate units. Most units should be
from 10 to 500 men; the GM has the last word on what may be a unit.
Each unit has a Troop Strength reflecting its size, type, and quality. A force's Troop Strength is the sum
of its units' Troop Strengths. All units are recorded on a Force Roster (a blank form is at the end of the
article). Each unit has a mander, who may be a PC or NPC. The force has a force
commander, as well.
In a battle, the manders roll a Quick Contest of their S