Art De La Guerre

[Mark G Fry]

This is an idea that has been applied successfully to other sets of rules, so I thought I'd float it here:

When units draw in a melee, both units lose a Cohesion.

This would not apply in the following circumstances;
1. If doing so would knock-out/destroy both fighting units
2. If one or both of the units was Light Cavalry or Light Infantry (it would not apply to any combatants in this situation)
3. It would not apply to units giving melee or simple support (so no change there)

The advantages are:
1. that it would speed up melees
2. make risks to Generals fighting in melee greater
3. make players consider more carefully (maybe) throwing already damaged units into melee

As I say, it's just a though
Cheers
Mark
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[babyshark]

It is an interesting idea. I will note that it might have interesting interactions with the way that armor and missile support work. That might be a good thing, or it might not.

Marc

[madaxeman]

In a baseline "vanilla" matchup between 2 identical, average, unarmoured, furious charge and 2HW-free units, making this change would (I think) result in a 27% increase in the number of hits per round of combat.

Combats where one side had better armour would become even more more mutually deadly, with a 50% increase in hits per round of combat, as the number of tied results due to the balancing effect of armour is 83% greater than in a "vanilla" matchup.

That would certainly speed up the game ... I'm not sure to what end though... as it would be getting close to having the same overall effect as just cutting 1 cohesion off every unit in the game.
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