Art De La Guerre

If impact heavy cavalry (ignoring bow/impact) are charged flank or rear, which removes their impact attribute, can they evade?

If a charge is declared by heavier troops against light troops which do not have a ZOC is it possible to angle the charge so as to cross the bases of more than one element, thus causing multiple eleme ...

On a related point, can m choose which enemy unit to take as it's primary melee opponent, given that neither made a frontal charge?

Thanks for the clarification and the pointers

If this were a specific rule covering swordsmen swapping out with bowmen in the anticipation of hand to hand combat then fair enough, although that would suggest some cooperation between the two units ...

Foot Kn/HI/MI can pass through bow/crossbow which are both LMI
In that case, why the restriction on interpenetrating javelinmem, also LMI?
And for that matter, why can’t LMI interpenetrate other L ...

That's quite an interesting set of circumstances

Technically, the heavier troops can't charge the LI from their initial corner to corner contact but, if the LI didn't have to make a mandatory one U ...

It was only a discussion point and I readily accept that the game mechanics of any set of rules are, initially at least, influenced by the preconceptions of the author (although this doesn't mean they ...

Page 66, 'Shooting limitations', fourth and fifth bullets state that a unit providing overlap support cannot shoot or be shot at, and also separates units into those 'engaged in melee' and those provi ...

Restriction on contact with LI
Q: When a unit of LI is alone in contact with a heavy unit, sometimes it is required to retreat and sometimes it must move. Is there a difference? How is this mechani ...

I presume that the first bullet in point 2 of Ramses response still requires the conforming unit to respect the rules concerning flank/rear contact?

For example, a supporting unit could continue it ...

I'm happy to accept that it's a penalty, it's just sometimes dangerous to try to explain this type of rule away by reference to troop capabilities, especially when the rules cover 4,500 years of milit ...

Yeah, appreciate that QRF are merely aide memoires and that the main body of the rules should take precedence but this one was obviously considered of significant importance to be included in the FAQ ...

Any chance an admin could move this topic into the rules section please?

And sorry, don't mean to sound facetious, but pike are trained to expand from behind other troop types but not to turn 180', ...

Which particular typo are we looking at?