I am getting a crash to desktop in the demo.

It is occurring when I click on a city to enter it. It only happens on one city, and only in one game.

Looking at the city I notice that I have no town hall - there is a blacksmith in the first slot instead. I didn't sell the town hall, but I probably ...

The knights would at the start of the movement phase have the option to reform to face either M or C and also expand a base to fight against the overlap base from BG C.

No - a BG fighting in multiple directions can't reform. (p70 RHS 2nd bullet point) They can though turn to face and expand/move ...

If you count each charge completely individually all will go left from 3's charge and all will fragment

No - because B is still being charged by 2 so will split the angle. Not if each charge is actioned individually, you are combining two charges there.

Each charge is actioned one at a time ...

It depnds in what order you play charges and evades. If you do each charge and all its reactions in turn then B would become a target, because 3 is moved before 1 and 2 and before reaction to their charges. This is why IMO all evades are moved before all charges. Then 3's VMD would make no ...

If you count each charge completely individually all will go left from 3's charge and all will fragment

No - because B is still being charged by 2 so will split the angle.
No - because you only drop once if burst through by multiple units.

EDIT: Added
Also it was stated that the VMD didn't ...

Hence, if you do the charge evade as per marioslaz suggestion

- C will evade and burst through both B and A (Disrupting both)
- C will make it's charge and hit B
- B will then evade and burst through A (Fragmenting A)
- C will then continue it's charge and hit A
- A will make a test for being ...

hammy wrote:The knights would at the start of the movement phase have the option to reform to face either M or C and also expand a base to fight against the overlap base from BG C.

No - a BG fighting in multiple directions can't reform. (p70 RHS 2nd bullet point)

Full turn sequence it say all evades then all charges - check it out :)


I don't see where the full sequence says all evades - it just says "Make evade moves." The implication is that it is all, however P68 is a little more specific it says "Each charge and any responses to it must be actioned ...

One thought on the LH evading off problem.
If the chargers reach the table edge they have the option to pursue off table - in which case they count as if they evaded off table (1AP) but the pursued BG counts as destroyed. If they don't take the option then they stop as per the current rules.

if the terrain system is designed to have the feature distribution set out in the table, and there is a simple exploit which breaks that distribution, there is cause for concern, regardless of what sort of armies are perceived to benefit!

johno
I don't think its broken. It was designed. But ...

Why did we migrate away from the mechanism where the INVADER (iniative player) had to choose the terrain listed by the DEFENDER (non-iniative player)?

Wouldn't this eliminate the GARRANTEE that a Steppe army plays in the Steppes?

Gino
SMAC

Assuming you are referring to DBM then it is because we ...

they would not push back the pike since they have to interpenetrate them and the elephants since both units are pretty much even frontage to each other, so you would split the skirmishers if they can't clear the pikes but could clear the elephants. I would think you would end up with half your ...

So a small bunch of modern (unarmoured?) people riding on modern (unarmoured?) horses, operating under modern Insurance and Health and Safety rules - meaning that there must be no risk whatsoever of harming the people on foot, or the horses - being unwilling to approach spears is a good test that ...

Each base is considered seperately.

Logically the steps are:

First you move the BG as if the other BGs weren't present.

Now you fix the fact you have bases one on top of another.
And base that is on top of another is moved forward to clear the BG(s) it is on top of. If there isn't a gap beyond ...

I am remeinded of a show on History where they used about 30 volunteers who were drilled to march in a spear formation and then form orb. To illustrate its effectivness a few mounted riders rode up and tried to get close to the formation, after they were asked what they felt. It was a wall of ...

Now I'm more confused than ever.

Regarding the original diagrams:
however from the shape of the BGs I would guess that at least 1 file of skirmishers has no pike in fron of them.
One file of skirmishers did not contact the front of the pike and was in front of the Elephants.

Asking some basic ...

There is no increased chance to shift / remove a road - and a shift of 6MU is not sufficient to permit a minimum width piece to be placed touching the edge. Thus a 5 or 6 is required to negate it.

Pieces can be placed touching roads so a 6x4 would fit after the shift.
You are correct - however ...

Indeed the 4 deep pike is awkards because it is a fighting formation rather han representation of a column, so yep would challenge words a bit. I gues one would create an exclusion for Pikes to cover that.
I don't think such an exception should be only for pike - even for spear a 1 wide 4 deep is ...

Explain how a BG that is 2 bases wide can contract to 2 bases wide.

We have said from the outset that the rules are written in a non-legalise way by intent and with a view to the players applying some commmon sense and intelligence in their interpretation. Such an approach has clearly been a big ...

Yep. Although it should be noted the increased chance to removed or shift the river/road.

I think the road part is what I don't care for. I think terrain coming down after should result in the road being moved to on top of the terrain for exactly this reason.

However the river's difficult is ...