Art De La Guerre

Thanks Dan, you're giving me too much credit when you say I am remembering something.

But let me make sure I understand though.

Bullet 1 under page 43 charge movement allows a unit or group to w ...

I remain unconvinced

What I *thought* bullet 5 covered was the situation where the lead unit in a column was in combat. A unit in melee may still perform an extension when the lead unit is in co ...

I had always read that bullet literally.

In that if an expansion brings units into contact it counts as a charge. Or if a contraction (which is performed by moving straight ahead per page) bring ...

I struggle with small command design

Ideally I would like it to be 4 units. Flexible. So it can ambush as a single group or act as a flank march.

I've done this with Siamese - 1 El, two escort ...

Good points.

I did not play much DBM but did play a lot of DBR and agree with you that I made much more use of single purpose commands in that set.

Many armies I used were highly homogeneous a ...

Thank you Dan,

Exactly. I wondered if this was the case.

The turn happens in step 1 of the evade procedure. And after doing step 1, step 2 is where you check to see if the evade is cancelled o ...

So I had a funny one happen yesterday

Two units each 1 UD by 1 UD were fighting.

My opponent had a unit of LI in simple support. The fight was in the open.

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sorry - missed the end quote

only this was Dan

I have a habit of designing armies with Corps A: Mounted. Corps B: Foot. Corps C: mix of each and best commander. This gives me flexibility in depl ...

In a discussion over on the rules forum Dan Hazelwood wrote

I have a habit of designing armies with Corps A: Mounted. Corps B: Foot. Corps C: mix of each and best commander. This gives me flexibil ...

Perhaps the way to look at this is that my case is only even possible if the enemy unit concerned is not mounted on a 1 UD by 1 UD base. Given that one principle of the rules is that is how the autho ...

Yep, absolutely agree - the "oops, someone seems to have moved sideways into combat with the levy..." scenario for me would probably fall into the bucket of "That's actually quite funny ...

Tim, as always, thank you for your consideration of the matter.

Page 42 under ambiguous confirmation covers the common case where a mounted unit is charging a foot unit which is partially located i ...

Hi Mark,

I certainly agree with you on the first point.

Regarding the second, they may never move into position of support. But their move is not into a position of support.

When they mo ...

1. A unit of expendable levy is in the simple support position with a friendly unit on its flank so that it is in front corner front corner contact with the enemy.

Page 42 says it may never charg ...

Well, it is like this.

I agree with you on point 1. When I consider the hours of play I get from the rules I would happily buy another couple of updated copies

I'm neutral on your second reques ...