Art De La Guerre

For pedants (ce moi), the Charge rules (pp.43 etc) are a tad inconsistent in that the text in different paragraphs swings between single unit and group charges, and single / multiple initial targets. ...

Two of XXXX will stop to melee AA and another X will stop to provide simple support. The fourth X may/will continue on to contact BB.

VMD is only used if ALL initial targets (both of AA in this cas ...

In Ramses example all the XXXXs are charging as one group.

A permutation would be if two XXs each charge AA and BB. This would be two charges, two groups, two initial targets.

Back to Ramses' si ...

P.69 Army Rout states: "At the end of each player's sequence, a check is made to verify whether one or both armies are routed."

Event organisers who use the "dice down" approach ...

So if during Mike’s Movement Phase his battle unit had contacted an enemy on its side edge and immediately inflicted the final cohesion hit required to rout it (enemy already fighting in melee on it ...

So if during Mike’s Movement Phase his battle unit had contacted an enemy on its side edge and immediately inflicted the final cohesion hit required to rout it (enemy already fighting in melee on it ...

@Ramses - it is not “wildly hypothetical” to place a (non CinC) commander in ambush (with some troops).

The effect of your recommendation is: if a commander is placed in ambush, ALL units of hi ...

And so to reframe the original question that started this thread.

All units of a corps start the game hidden within two ambushes A and B. The corps commander is included in ambush A. For example, t ...

Has anyone played a game where this question has had a material bearing on the outcome, or enjoyment, of a game? It’s never come up in any game I’ve played.

I know some have been playing longer ...

Has anyone played a game where this question has had a material bearing on the outcome, or enjoyment, of a game? It’s never come up in any game I’ve played.

@Ramses II - the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I have a Tamil corps composed of 3 elephants (with included commander), 3 LI and 2 MI impact. I should be able to ambush the elephants (with i ...

@Ramses II - the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I have a Tamil corps composed of 3 elephants (with included commander), 3 LI and 2 MI impact. I should be able to ambush the elephants (with i ...

One tricky question.

If a commander (not the c in c) is in ambush and not visible, how can you determine where his visible units can deploy?

Do you measure the command range from the ambush mark ...

Generally I ignore the "kick-out" effect. So a unit that is flush with the table side edge can wheel inwards towards the table centre without fear of its arse falling off the edge of the wor ...

OK so the physical presence of the enemy Light Foot constrains the amount of wheel the chargers may declare, regardless of the fact that the Light Foot does not exert a ZoC and must evade.