Interpenetrations

[jamespcrowley]

I've recently had an instance where a BG of routing light skirmishers went through 2 BGs of Heavy foot and disrupted both. I can't recall having seen this before. In the same game, evading LF went through MF but with no effect.

This is what Help offers:
In various circumstances, battle groups may be forced to burst through other battle groups that they cannot normally interpenetrate. This is not voluntary and can cause difficulties. Where a battle group can normally interpenetrate friends there is no penalty, otherwise:

A battle group burst through by friendly shock troops drops one cohesion level.
A battle group burst through by friendly evading troops drops one cohesion level.
A battle group burst through by friendly routing troops drops one cohesion level.

I assume "various circumstances" relates to routs and evasions but what does "normally interpenetrate mean? Why were the MF not affected but the HF were?

[IainMcNeil]

Can you check the skirmishers are correctly set as such and are not one of the Medium Foot mascarading as Light foot units?

[jamespcrowley]

This happened in the last, my Brigante , turn in a MP of 'Agricola Moves North' against pantherboy.

I have not yet had a return file so cannot look at that actual game but looking through the game vs AI, it seems that all the lights are correctly identified - assuming that scrolling through them and checking the bottom left -hand info box is sufficient.

[pantherboy]

It was the roman MF bows that routed through two other units. Agricola doesn't have any lights for the romans.

[jamespcrowley]

Ha, my mistake. Got my sides mixed up completely. Must be old age; that's my excuse anyway.