Art De La Guerre

[Three]

This caused an amount of discussion during last night's game.

= Impetuous Camels
= Light Horse Archers
= Medium Knights

The situation was as follows -

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The Knights have charged the lower Camel base and moved the Light Horse Archers up into a supporting position. The upper Camel base is just over 1 UD away from the LH, so must pay to charge or to hold them back. All the bases would line up side edge to side edge and corners to corners by the upper camel's base moving straight forward, there is no lateral movement required.

Assuming the Camels want to charge, their target must be the LH. No issues so far. The Camels then announce that they will charge the LH and pay a pip to do so. The LH evade.
The query is what happens next?

Do the Camels -

1) Continue their charge to the full extent of their charge move because they are Impetuous and all the targets of their charge have evaded - page 40, 3rd paragraph under Charge movement
or
2) Stop in a supporting position to the lower camel base as soon as it's front corner touches the front corner of the knight's base - page 36 under charge definition, 3rd paragraph 2nd bullet point, if that applies in this situation?

My initial response was that 2 is the correct answer, as the Camel owner I would say that, and that is how we've been playing it in previous games, but this was also the first time I've used impetuous mounted and I'm coming round to the conclusion that 1 is correct.

[Commodore]

Your answer 2 is OK
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[Three]

Hi Commodore,

Not doubting you but could you say why?

For 2 to be correct, as I understand it, the Camels charge and the Light Horse evades. The camels then stop charging, and change to a move to contact as page 36, under charge definition, 3rd paragraph 2nd bullet point, says that this movement is not a charge.

If this is allowed then fine, but I would appreciate the rule reference for this, and why it would take precedence over page 40, 3rd paragraph under Charge movement, which seems quite clear.

Thanks.

[Maverick2909]

I don’t have my book in front of me but your #2 is correct. Any unit whether impetuous or not stops during a charge when the come into contact with the enemy and thus in this scenario the camel unit would stop.

[daveallen]

[Three]

Thanks for the replies, and to reiterate, 2 was how we have played it up until last night when the actual wording was closely looked at.