Hi Played a game on Tuesday when lh had to evad through cavalry ll ccc l = light horse c =cav Even thought they moved 1 base to the right they couldn't avoid the cav Now this means they burst through and disorder the cav Is this correct and if so if make it difficult to deploy the horse as skirmishe...

Hi

Think I got my ideas confused reference this.
I got the idea that you couldn't charge into a unit already in melee DOH
So in fact you can or you can move into an overlap
during manoeuvre

Thx

Steve

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Right so we did it correctly ...but in the combat I had 1 elephant and 1 aux facing each other initially while the other auxilia was back a bit and facing the other auxilia stand (auxila was one stand behind the other ) . Now will the other auxilia just join the melee during the manoeuvre phase or c...

Hi Just to clarify the editor of this has moved the rear auxilia it should be behind and to the right of the front auxilia with one of the elephant stands in front of it The cav original position was to the rear and the right as it couldn't reach to charge into the rear until a turn after the auxili...

Hi Last night I had a situation like this aa aa ee cc a = roman auxilia e= Sassanid elephants c=roman cavalry Sassanid elephants are in contact with first roman auxilia and fighting a melee. The melee is then joined by the other roman auxilia we assumed the must join and the one on the end fights as...

Hi The bayonet issue at killiecrankie needs a special rule to simulate the wiiliamite armies failure to get them fixed in time for the highland charge. My idea is - one fire phase to fix bayonets during which you cannot fire and after which you cannot fire. Once fixed you get the bayonet bonus - oth...

Hi All Last night in a game we had a 2 file wide 2 ranks deep rajtar cavalry unit. It was charged by a 3 file wide 2 ranks deep russian boyar cavalry unit. Because the boyars hit it at an angle during the impact phase the bases slid forward so that all 3 could hit one of the rajtar bases. I assumed ...

Hi So does that mean that if in impact only one base has the move to contact then i can still slide the others forward 2 mu even if they will exceed their move ? Also - i am sure it says you must adopt a legal formation for the melee - that is in this case a straight line or a rectangle. So since my...

Hi All Played OG AM last night for the first time in about 18 months. Realized i seem to have forgotten some basic stuff so what happened was - Norman kn charged Byzant Cv but only one base had the range to hit on the charge - fought the impact with one base vs one base - 2 dice each. Now during the...

Hi How do the mixed bow/spear nike infantry form up If you have 4 bow and 4 spear do they just go in 2 blocks like this bbss bbss or do the bow go behind the front rank of spear - ssss bbbb Any ideas as if they go side by side surely the bow will get no protection against kn/cv in a melee ? even if ...

Hi All One of my club is building one of your 'wonder troops ' ie - so brilliant you just head them for the enemy ie the swedes of gustavus adolphus Looks like with the additional pike to stop them breaking ever i can shoot them as 3 deep with my arty on a 4,5,6 Or they invulnerable on that score as...

just to specify i meant in terms of shooting

Hi Bit of an odd question but say if have light arty in the front of a pike/shot unit Just in front of the pike say Now if the arty is attacked effectively you are in melee with the unit behind since they are effecively in the same place - can the shot fire at the same place as the arty who are in f...

forget it doh just seen answer once i found errata

Hi I think in the sublist for 1645 - it says a minimum of ordinary pike/shot of 12 But then seems to say a minimum of 12 ave pike/shot and a minimum of 6 poor pike/shot i am not in front of the army lists but from memory its confusing Can anyone explain what the minimums for ordinary pike/shot in ro...

well my reply would be - what evidence have we that they were a pike/shot unit ?
So if in comps i will use the lists - thanks for ur opinions chaps

Steve

Whoever designed the impetus lists obviously agrees with me on the irish !!!! MONTROSE'S ROYALIST ARMY (VDT=18/9) Nr Type M VBU I VD Notes 2 RE-CP(*) 8 4 2 3 Pistol (various) 2 P&M-FP 5 5 1 2 Pikes - Muskets - MM=-2 2 FP 8 5 4 2 Irish - Muskets - Impetuous 2 FP 8 4 4 2 Highlanders - Impetuous

I think reid as a dour lowland scot has a serious problem with the erse or highlander irish catholics in general . I am going to do the pikes in case i want to take part in comps but i dont agree with them Here is another opinion off the web - The Irish WERE NOT ARMED WITH PIKES. No source whatsoeve...

Ta chaps - still no idea what the highlanders used for flags
Also dont agree with reid on the irish being bog standard pike and shot but thats another story !!!!