Art De La Guerre

[Mark G Fry]

This may have been covered previously but I cannot find the thread.

If I have 2 units of Light Cavalry one behind the other, must the rear unit be in range of the target to be eligible to act as a support to the front unit in shooting?

In an extreme case - if the front unit is bow armed and the rear is javelin armed, and the front unit is shooting at maximum range - 2 UD - does this prohibit support from the rear javelin armed unit as it is out of range of the target.

Many thanks

Mark

[Zoltan]

P.49 Shooting Overhead 4th bullet point. Range is measured from the front edge of the front unit. So for a second rank javelin LH to be able to support shoot, the front rank LH would need to be at/within 1 UD of the target.

[barnstormer]

The same bullet point also says you have to armed with similar weapons so you can't have a Javelin armed LH firing overhead a bow anyway

[Mark G Fry]

Many thanks folks

The second rank having to be the same type as the front rank is the key

Cheers

Mark

[daveallen]

Worth noting on this that the second rank is shooting in support of the front rank.

I say that because if you have four units in a 2 x 2 group only one of the second rank units will get to shoot in support.

Because the other would not be supporting its own front rank.

Dave
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[knightfast]

On a related note....

How does it work if I have 2x LC Bw in a column, 1MU to the side of an opposing unit and facing the same way:

H_LC
---LC

The front LC can obviously fire, can the second fire as it is in support? Or is it allowed to fire anyway as the hostile unit is in arc?

Thanks

[daveallen]

Both actually
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