BLACK POWDER: MODIFIED HAIL CAESAR BREAK TESTS

When I was at Claymore last year Jim Wallace from the Dumfries  Wargames  Club mentioned that they were experimenting with using a modified Hail Caesar break test chart in their Black powder games.   Since it was Jim who first alerted me to the Alternative Turn sequence which I now use in all my BP games this got me thinking and I started drafting my own version.  I first tested it in my Bennington  AWI game.  See
http://blenheimtoberlin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/28mm-awi-bennington-16th-august-1777.html

Following that game I made some more modifications and here below is the latest version of the chart.  The chart gives  less chance for unshaken infantry units breaking under fire.  However it does make skirmishers more vulnerable to shooting.   When to test and the break test modifiers are unchanged from BP.

TEST WHEN:
A             Test if excess hits suffered from Shooting                                                                           
B             Test if Shaken or suffering artillery casualties by closing fire                                       
C             Test if defeated in Hand-to-hand Combat                                                                           
D             Test if Shaken in a drawn Hand-to-hand Combat   
E              Test supporting units if supported unit breaks and flees

BREAK TEST MODIFIERS
-1   Per excess casualty
-1   Disordered
-1   Suffered casualties from artillery for tests A or B
  

SCORE	TYPE	SHOOTING	HAND TO HAND
10+	ALL	Hold your ground without penalty	Hold your ground without penalty
9	Infantry & Art Cavalry Skirmishers	Hold your ground without penalty Hold your ground without penalty Hold your ground without penalty	Hold your ground without penalty Retreat in good Retreat disordered
8	Infantry & Art Cavalry Skirmishers	Hold your ground without penalty Hold your ground without penalty Retreat in good order	Hold your ground without penalty Retreat in good order Break if shaken, otherwise Retreat disordered
7	Infantry Cavalry Skirmishers	Hold your ground without penalty Retreat in good order Retreat disordered	Retreat in good order Retreat disordered  Break
6	Infantry Cavalry Skirmishers	Hold your ground disordered or Retreat in good order Retreat disordered Retreat disordered	Retreat in good order Retreat disordered Break
5	Infantry Cavalry Skirmishers	Hold your ground disordered or Retreat in good order Retreat disordered Break	Retreat disordered Break if shaken, otherwise Retreat disordered Break
4	Infantry Cavalry Skirmishers	Retreat disordered Break Break	Break if shaken, otherwise Retreat disordered Break if shaken, otherwise Retreat disordered Break
3	Infantry Cavalry Skirmishers	Break Break Break	Break if shaken, otherwise Retreat disordered Break Break
2	ALL	Break	Break

Artillery are treated as infantry except  Artillery in Hand to Hand always Break instead.

At some point I will add this to my BP House Rules page.