Noooooooo . Oh well - I tried. Thanks for the reply.

:-) - Viper, you are a great judge of character and a true friend :-) So, may we quote some battles then, Agincourt, Formigny, Castillon :-) Just as a matter of interest - the French eventually beat the English through the masterful brilliance of Jean and Gaspard Bureau - French masters of Artillery...

[quote="lawrenceg"]IIRC there is an old thread from playtesting on this topic which concluded that with stakes in the open, or in terrain with no stakes, the longbowmen still had a significant chance of losing. Lets take 8 bases of LB vs 4 bases of Kn - LB in open behind stakes. LB, with s...

The stakes prevent the bonuses for 'open terrain'. The terrain type itself does not change, so the knights are not losing combat dice. The stakes blunt the impact of the charge and let the bowmen fight at even odds in the melee round. Point taken. I did not think of it that way - at least the Kn do...

Thanks. Makes sense, otherwise if you deploy 3-2-3, people would pick up immediately that you have an ambush.

If I deploy 3-3-3-2 and part of my second group of 3 I want to put one of the units in ambush, do I then for that section only deploy the 2 on-table units, or do I then deploy 2 and 1 from the next group of 3 and keep going like that ?

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Yeah Viper - some emotional support - thanks. Good to hear I am not completely subjective seeing as I play Ordonnance French. My Kn can fortunately dismount as Superior HF, Heavy Weapon, so I was not complaining because I had no way of fighting Longbowmen behind stakes - the interaction with terrain...

Thanks for the reply. I suppose this is one of the situations where you have to simply put your opinion aside and accept the rule and play accordingly. I do not understand the dynamics behind the interpretation. In many of the battles of the 100 years war, the English longbow men setup stakes in dif...

P135 lists defending Fortifications - not sure if that includes Portable Defences ?

Obviously the stakes provide a modifier + POA for the MF behind stakes v Mounted, in this case Knights. My question pertains to the Knight's POA modifiers. I do not see anywhere mentioned that stakes changes the terrain type present, so my understanding therefor is that MF in the open behind stakes,...

Hi guys. Another short question. In the impact phase, enemy LF BG (2 bases deep) declares a charge on my LF BG (also 2 bases deep). Both inside a wood. My LF evades, but rolls a 1 and the enemy LF rolls a 6 and catch them from behind. 1. Is this then again in the same impact phase a charge from behi...

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Quick question. Can any enemy Battle Group that is within move distance from your Battle Group's flank give you a "-" when testing for having a threatened flank, or must they actually have a legal Flank charge on you - meaning that they cannot have any element partially in front of your Ba...

Two questions thats come up this week. 1st Battle Group of 4 bases fights two battle groups to its front in Melee phase. It has two bases fighting one enemy and two fighting another enemy. The Battle Group becomes Disrupted, so loose in per 3 dices. They have only two on one enemy and two on another...

Two questions. Obviously they cannot move, so they are not listed for being disordered in certain types of terreain under the move distances sections. What terrain can they function in ? They steady in Rough or even Difficult ? Obviously difficult like Woods would affect visibility ranges, but do th...

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Can someone please clarify this for me ? If a General joins a Battle Group and stays at the back, he can affect the CT of the Battle Group he is with and who is in Combat, and he can also affect the CT of a Battle group elsewhere in command range and not itself in Combat ? Correct ? On the other han...

Just some further clarification - Shock foot not behind their own LF and apposed by enemy LF still needs to pass a CMT not to charge the enemy LF ?

Thanks for the quick response.

Stunning Rule-Set - great to play.

Keep it up.

This might be slightly redundant to ask, because I think the rules are quite clear, but I have played a few games where everybody neglected to act on these rules and I did not think it strange because of the troops involved - only realized the impact later when I read the rules through again. Any &q...