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Strategic Events

Activation Bonus

Wizard

result but doubles, the player receives a combat

die roll modifier equal to the highest of his two

dice. If the roll is doubles, however, the player

receives a combat die penalty of 6, and the

gnomish technology marker is removed from the

game. The gnome modifier is in addition to all

other applicable die roll modifiers.

Thus, a roll of 5 and 2 would give an attack

roll modifier of +5 to an attacker who used the

gnomes. The same roll for a player who was

using the gnomes with a defending army would

result in a -5 modifier to the attack against his

army. An attacker who rolled doubles when try-

ing to use gnomish technology would receive a

-6 to his attack roll, while a defender who rolled

doubles would add +6 to the attack roll against

him.

The player who draws one of these counters

gets the indicated bonus to his Activation roll

on the Turn the counter is drawn. The bonus is

subtracted from the player’s d10 roll for Acti-

vation during Step 3 of the same Turn.

These counters represent powerful wizards

who have chosen sides in the war. A wizard

counter must be given to the side listed on the

counter (Highlord or Whitestone), regardless

of which player drew the counter.

Wizards have no movement allowance.

During a player’s movement step, he may pick

up his wizards and place them with any of his

armies or ships. Wizards must always be

stacked with an army or ship.

,A wizard with an attacking army adds +3

to the combat die roll; a wizard with a defend-

ing army lowers the die roll by -3.

A wizard with a ship adds +3 to the Com-

bat Rating of the ship.

Dragonlances

Each of these counters is given to the WS

player when drawn. The first counter indicates

that the forces of good have learned the secret

of creating Dragonlances; subsequent

counters represent further production of

Dragonlances. The WS player places the

counter in a hex with one of his armies. That

army is designated to carry the lances for the

duration of the game. If the army is removed

from the map for any reason, the Dragonlance

counter is permanently eliminated.

An army carrying Dragonlances has its

Combat Strength doubled for all purposes. In

addition, if that army is part of a stack being

attacked by dragons, the attacker receives no

die roll modifiers for the presence of his

dragons.

An army can only carry one Dragonlance

counter and only that army’s strength is dou-

bled.

Flying Citadels

Golden General

This event means that Laurana has been

appointed a commander in the WS armies.

The Golden General counter is set aside, but

the Laurana counter (in Knights of Solamnia

colors) is placed with one of the WS armies.

Laurana is treated as any other leader.

Each of these counters is given to the HL

player when drawn. The first counter indicates

the discovery of the secret of creating the massive

citadels, while subsequent counters represent

further production of citadels.

The citadel counter is placed on any fortress or

fortified city controlled by the HL player. It can

move four hexes every Turn, and ignores all ter-

rain. Up to three HL armies of any types can ride

upon it. The citadel cannot be attacked by WS

ground armies. If it is attacked by air armies,

treat it as a fortified city.

If the citadel joins an attack against WS

ground armies, those armies receive no terrain

bonuses. All defending fortress and fortified city

benefits are also lost.

HL ground armies can board the citadel

whenever they are in the same hex, provided the

armies have not yet moved that Turn. Ground

armies can also be dropped off at any time. An

army that has been carried even one hex on the

citadel cannot move under its own power during

the same Turn.

Good Dragons Arrive

Dragon Orb Discovered

Each of these counters is used by the player

who draws it from the cup. The Dragon Orb

must be immediately placed in a hex with a

leader. The Orb can be used anytime the

leader is attacking or being attacked by an

enemy force that includes dragons.

To use the Orb, the player must roll 1d6

and compare the result to the leader’s Tactical

Rating. If the roll is higher than the leader’s

rating, both the leader and the Orb counters

are permanently removed from the game. If

the roll is equal to or less than the leader’s Tac-

tical Rating, all dragons opposing that leader

in the battle are eliminated. The Orb is also

permanently eliminated.

This counter signifies that the good dragons

have joined the war against the HL player. The

WS player can immediately take all seven

good dragon counters and place them with

any of his armies on the map.

Gnomish Technology

Lord Soth’s Legion

The player who draws this counter receives

the dubious benefit of gnomish war machine

technology. The counter is immediately

placed with any army of the player who drew

the counter.

The gnomish technology counter may be

used whenever the army it is stacked with is

involved in combat. (Use of gnomish technol-

ogy is always optional!)

If the player decides to use the gnomes, he

rolls two dice before combat takes place. On any

When this event is drawn, the HL player can

immediately place Lord Soth and his two armies

on the map in the Dargaard Keep hex. These

armies function as normal HL armies, except

that they are not subject to conquest.

If Dargaard Keep is taken by WS forces before

this counter is drawn, Lord Soth and his armies

appear in the Dark Temple hex when the

counter is drawn.

Official Simulation Game

Dragons of Glory

by Douglas Niles and Tracy Raye Hickma n

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Wherein the game is described and its use to the referee is explained.

The War Journal o f Lord Gunthar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Wherein the gloried ruler of the Solamnic Knights discusses the course of the War of the

Lance, both in general terms and in specific battles.

The War of the Lance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

The Fall of Silvanesti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Solamnic Plain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The Kender Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Siege of Kalaman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Orders of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Wherein Lord Gunthar details the command structure and organization in the armies of the

war, as well as their detailing for small-scale warfare.

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Once the dragons Returned, War Was Inevitable.

Lord Gunthar Uth Wistan

Warlord of Solamnia

“Dragons of Glory” is the eleventh install-

ment in the DRAGONLANCE ® series.

Unlike its predecessors, however, this supple-

ment focuses on the overall War of the Lance

rather than the adventures of the characters.

In doing so, it gives the referee a fine simula-

tion of the war to play as a game as well as the

ability to control the war in his own campaign.

The BATTLESYSTEM ™ rules can be used to

govern medium-scale skirmishes between

groups of evil monsters and the PCs (aided by

villagers or army groups that rally around the

PCs).

These are only a few of the ways in which

you can use the “Dragons of Glory” war game

to add more flavor to your DRAGONLANCE

campaign. Other ways to use this game in

your campaign may occur to you as you play.

Strategic Events

Most of the Strategic Events in the game

represent events that may occur during the

role-playing adventures. For example, the

discovery of the Dragonlances on Ergoth takes

place in DL7. One of the three Dragon Orbs is

discovered in each of DL6, DL8, and DL10.

You may want to introduce the three Dragon

Orbs counters and the first Dragonlance

counter into the game during Battle Turn 20

to mimic the effects these devices have in the

adventures.

Integrating the Quest and the War

The War of the Lance may be won in two

different ways: (1) The military victory of the

Whitestone forces, or (2) the completion of

the role-playing quest. The forces of the

Queen of Darkness succeed if neither of these

conditions are met.

Thus DRAGONLANCE game functions on

two levels: the role-playing quest and the stra-

tegic war. The other modules in this series

encompass the epic quest of the heroes. This

supplement re-creates the overall war.

This is not to say that the characters don’t

affect the war and vice versa. When a questing

PC walks into the same area as an entire Drag-

onarmy, there most certainly will be some

effect! Indeed, the positions of PCs in the

world in relation to the armies is one of the

benefits of this supplement.

As a game referee, you may want to use this

game in a slightly different manner than as a

straight simulation. While “Dragons of

Glory” is a complete and self-contained simu-

lation game, it can also be a valuable role-

playing aid.

One way to integrate this game into your

DRAGONLANCE campaign is to play the

game, either solo or with a friend, and record

the locations of the evil armies. Do this month

by month as the game progresses. When the

game is over you will have a complete record

of the movements of all the evil armies over

the face of Krynn during the War of the Lance.

Use this information in your campaign to

enhance your players’ feeling of being part of

a titanic struggle raging across the continent

of Ansalon. When your players’ characters are

in an area at the same time as an evil army in

the war game, allow this to affect the encoun-

ters the PCs have. Perhaps they meet a

greater-than-usual number of the monster

type in the evil army. Or they might meet ref-

ugees from battles, remnants of defeated

good armies. Maybe villagers ask the PCs to

defend them against a small portion of a

Dragonarmy that is headed their way.

Correlating Game Time to Campaign Time

The time scale for the game is one Battle

Turn equals two months, with the exception

of the winter Battle Turn, which encompasses

the months of November, December, January,

and February. The months and years are

printed on the Turn track of the game. To use

the game in your role-playing campaign, you

need to correlate Battle Turns to time elapsed

during role play.

The following table relates specific Battle

Turns in the game to the timing of events that

occur in the modules. These are only guide-

lines; the actual timing of module events in

your campaign may be somewhat different.

This schedule assumes that the the Dragon

Highlords’ invasion of Abanasinia takes place

on Turn 19 and the invasion of Solamnia takes

place prior to Turn 20.

Notes on Campaigns and Scenarios

Two campaign games and four scenarios are

included in this book. Each has its own

strengths. All of the battle descriptions and

scenarios are written in the order in which they

occurred during the War of the Lance. This

makes it easier to understand the historical

setting for each scenario. The scenarios teach

the basics of the game and we recommend

that you play the scenarios before tackling the

campaign games.

The first campaign game allows you to play

out the course of the war from start to finish.

We suggest that you save this one until after

you have learned the rules by playing the

shorter scenarios.

The second campaign game is the Historical

Campaign, which begins on Turn 20 with the

conditions that exist at the start of the adven-

ture modules. This is a much shorter game

than the first campaign although equally

complex. The Historical Campaign is also the

most useful to the DRAGONLANCE game

referee. However, we still recommend playing

through some of the smaller scenarios before

attempting this one.

The first scenario simulates the fall of

Silvanesti. It emphasizes offensive tactics for

the Dragon Highlord player and defensive

tactics for the Whitestone player. We recom-

mend this one as the second scenario you play.

The second scenario is larger scale than the

first and introduces limited Activation rules.

We recommend you play this scenario after

playing the first and third scenarios. When

you are done with this one, you should be

ready to tackle either of the campaign games.

If you are just learning the rules, or are alto-

gether new to simulation games, the third sce-

nario is the easiest to learn, play, and teach. It

is the best place to start learning the basic rules

of combat and getting a feel for the game in a

Battle Module

Turn Event

1 March 348 AC * / Start of the war

20 Winter 351 AC / DL1 ,DL2, DL3

DL4, DL6, DL7, DL8, DL9

DL10

21 March 352 AC / DL9, DL12, DL13

22 May 352 AC / DL14

* AC denotes Alt-Cataclius (After the Cataclysm)

You may wish to play the first 19 turns of

the war game and then begin your campaign

adventure at that point. We suggest that the

Historical Campaign be played if you plan to

relate the events in the game to your cam-

paign adventures.

short time. Play this one first.

The fourth scenario is a no-holds-barred

battle. Short and furious conflict is the rule.

This one allows you to play with all the rules.

It doesn’t take as long as a campaign game but

has all the action. Try this scenario when you

don’t have time for a campaign game but still

Want to play all-out.

Battle Turn to Campaign Year Chart

Turn Campaign Time

348 AC

March/April

May/June

July/August

September/October

November/December/January/

February

349AC

6 March/April

7 May/June

8 July/August

9 September/October

10 November/December/January/

February

350 AC

11 March/April

12 May/June

13 July/August

14 September/October

15 November/December/January/

February

351 AC

16 March/April

17 May/June

18 July/August

19 September/October

20 November/December/January/

February

352 AC

21 March/April

22 May/June

23 July/August

24 September/October

November/December/January/

February

353AC

26 March/April

27 May/June

28 July/August

29 September/October

30 November/December/January/

February

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