Art De La Guerre

[Dickstick]

This weeks challenge .

Without marching what is the furthest a general can move?
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[Dickstick]

If you think it's a daft question then you are thinking 5 Ud.
It's more than 5.
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[Jhykronos]

5 UD then attach to a unit of Light Cavalry, then charge, the target evades, and the Light Cavalry roll fast to chase.

11 UD?
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[Dickstick]

Well done, you have spotted the new rule.
I'd have used a road thus the pony express reference.
But an evaded charge works just the same.
But a charge up a road with an evading target is a bit of a push to 12 ud.
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[Jhykronos]

Wasn't thinking in terms of roads...

So 5 UD,
attach to a Light cavalry on a road,
Light Cavalry evades out of a ZOC, down the road, and rolls a 5-6 (+7UD),
Evade move lands 1mm in the middle of troops Light Cavalry can interpenetrate, so Light Cavalry fully cross (+depth of a cavalry stand)

So, 12 UD plus the depth of a cavalry stand? Or 13+ UD if a commander can get a road bonus as well (I'm not really clear on this)?
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[Ramses II]

I am not sure that you are correct here. The commander is a unit just like any other (p8, p24). Consequently it may not make a second (or third) move while within 4UD of an enemy (either to charge into contact, or to evade from it) - see p34.

What is being described (moving the commander to attach to a unit and then having the attached unit do something), is the equivalent of a unit moving into contact with another to form a group, and then using a further CP to move that group; effectively a multiple move or "march".

[Dickstick]

Unfortunately Ramses to be blunt, your reading is not correct.
P8 and p24 only describe how a seperate commander is based and no reference to being a unit.
In fact p27 movement of commanders bullet 5 says seperate commanders are not units .
All these are the same as v3 p8 and p24.

So the crux of this challenge was to find the difference to v3 to be found below the diagram p27.
What we have is a new rule not written in v3 p24.
If it was to be covered under multiple movements p34, as you suggested, then as v3 it need not be written at all on p27.

What a commander can do now is run over to a group and move with them three times. In v3 this could only happen if the commander was already in the right place from last move.
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[hcaille]

Hello

Yes you are right.
It is now possible to move and attach a commander to a unit and then move the unit with the commander.
If not within 4 UD it is then possible to make multiple moves.

[Ramses II]

Thanks for the confirmation. I was not sure that this was intended since it was not one of the listed changes. 

[Dickstick]

Granted it was not one of the "main changes".

But an interesting one non the less.
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