Art De La Guerre

A ZoC is a thing that affects enemy units. A commander base by itself is not a unit. Ipso facto a lone commander base ignores enemy ZoCs when measuring.

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Does the French language have a specific term for infantry e.g. infanterie?

The widespread convention on tied initiative dice rolls is to simply re-roll.

Impetuous troops attempting to move from open into difficult terrain is tricky; the example under Movement Distances on ...

P.50 definition of a charge requires the charger to make contact with its “front edge”. So a movement that results only in corner to corner contact appears not to meet the definition of a charge (a co ...

Yet FAQ p. 9 examples 2 & 3 explicitly permit A1 to ignore corner to corner contact with an enemy and charge a third party. In these examples A1 is NOT forced to conform by dint of corner to corne ...

@Ramses

OK so you read the p.34 charge Definition as:

A charge is ANY move in which a unit HAPPENS TO contact an enemy...

and not

A charge is a move in which a unit WISHES TO contact an e ...

@Ramses:

MC

__HI

Are the MC permited to make an ordinary move past the enemy HI (straight along the HI side edge)?

Or because their front corners touch during the movement, is the MC forc ...

Unit 3 is NOT within unit 7's ZoC at the start of the move. If unit 6 was not present, 3 would be able to make an ordinary move along the side of 7 ending with a quarter turn to face 7's flank. I doub ...

In my experience aligned units are more common than non-aligned. As two lines approach each other there seems to be a tendency to “line up” to optimise any overlap at the end of the line.

I think t ...

Thank you Zoltan, I had specified that the lines were within 1 UD. This means that sliding before charging is not allowed.
My bad - of course you did! Sad

Rubbish deleted. Rolling Eyes

Having said that, the FAQ on page 10 regarding the general charge mechanism appears to say that any continuing charges occur after first contact and before any conforming. So impetuous units may be fo ...

Hi Alan. I’ve corresponded separately with Dan H (USA) and Hubert B (FR) on this and they confirm that playing practice is as follows:

Imagine a line of 6 impetuous HI declaring a group charge wher ...

OK, rethinking this then.

1. Conforming is merely a "housekeeping" thing to simplify the resolution of melee (P52);

2. Charging stands alone and everything to do with charging should f ...

I think the sequence is:
P52 makes clear that any conforming occurs once initial contact has been made.

Where does it say this? This is at the root of my query.

P.52 Conforming, official amendm ...