Generals cards

[MADdaz]

Can someone explain the +1 over allowance when dealing the cards/tokens at the turn start. The rules mention not being allowed to go over the current allowance, so how does the +1 work?

[nikgaukroger]

If a professional general is holding more cards than their usual full allowance at the end of a turn - e.g. a Competent general holding 4 or more cards - they can carry forward their usual allowance + 1 extra into the next turn - so 4 cards in our example. However, they do not get dealt any new cards in that following turn.

[ShrubMiK]

How often is this rule actually called into play?

Ways in which it could happen:
a) C-in-C gifts a sub-commander some cards in addition to his normal allowance, sub-commander spends fewer than the number of cards gifted.
b) Commander doesn't spend any cards during the turn and is wounded, reducing his allowance by one.

[nikgaukroger]

Yes.

[Hunter]

Quite so

I remember before this rule came into play and my pal Jim Copeland gifting cards to sub commanders from a floating legend so that they each had about 6 going into one round.  Just because he could!

[Hunter]

It was a great example of how Si's system works - it was picked up and errata'd very quickly as I recall.
HH

[Simon Meg-Meister]

Indeed.  Was not the plan....