Art De La Guerre

[kevinj]

are impetuous cavalry, facing:-

who are foot, are Heavy Foot, are Medium Foot.

So am I correct in thinking that will be subject to making an uncontrolled charge, whereas will not as their target is the front edge of enemy Heavy Foot (P41, 9th exception)?

[Black Prince]

I have never noticed that you are right impetuous cavalry do not have to charge the front edge of heavy foot. Most other rules I have played impetuous cavalry would charge heavy foot.

Personally in this situation specially if the foot are swordsmen I would charge all four cavalry into all four foot as there is a chance because of furious charge you can kill one of the MF in the first round of melee.

[kevinj]

Yes, it's true that you might want to charge anyway, but my understanding is that, unless you spend the CP to charge, the Cavalry facing the Medium Infantry will charge in an Uncontrolled way and end up facing overlaps and leave the others as isolated units.

[daveallen]

Not only that, but the chargers will also suffer a -1 in melee for the uncontrolled charge.

Then after they're destroyed their colleagues would face the same dilemma.

Dave
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[Hazelbark]

Yep all around.

FYI. Nearly all the time I want impetuous cavalry to charge my Heavy foot.

The cavalry is much better as a threat in being.

Now knights well they ride the pedestrians down routinely.

[lionelrus]

Ah impetuous cavalry...My favorite troop!
The main thing about them is: you must avoid fight after uncontroled charge.
At first, impetous cavalry ( said IC in the rest of this post to go shortly) is not subjet to uncontroled charge on heavy foot who is not in desorder. This mean, if you use IC, dont place light troops shooting in their front, because if your light make a disorder by shooting, your IC become subject to uncontroled charge. On pikemen this can be a wrong idea.

Don't forget, if you are facing HI and not in ZOC, you may do half turn and go away with remaining UD move. If you are in zoc and can't retain charging, so pay to charge with all the group. Is the dice roll is well, carry on the fight. If it's wrong, break off the group for 2PIP.

A thing usely forgoten :when you retain a group, you can rally one unit at same cost, and rallying other units is 1PIP by unit.
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[Black Prince]

"A thing usely forgoten :when you retain a group, you can rally one unit at same cost, and rallying other units is 1PIP by unit."

What does this means?

[Commodore]

[Black Prince]

I got is now.

[plefebvre]