Feeding more bases into melee

[lawrenceg]

We had a situation where I had 4 bases in column,
the front edge was in melee,
the third rank was side-to-side with enemy on my left.

I wanted to expand to give myself an overlap on my right.

The third rank could not expand because it was in contact with enemy.

The 4th rank could not expand because the BG would have ended not in a normal formation (ranks other than the rear would have had less bases than the front).

Is this right?

[rbodleyscott]

We had a situation where I had 4 bases in column,
the front edge was in melee,
the third rank was side-to-side with enemy on my left.

I wanted to expand to give myself an overlap on my right.

The third rank could not expand because it was in contact with enemy.

The 4th rank could not expand because the BG would have ended not in a normal formation (ranks other than the rear would have had less bases than the front).

Is this right?

Seems a bit anomalous to me.

[rbodleyscott]

We had a situation where I had 4 bases in column,
the front edge was in melee,
the third rank was side-to-side with enemy on my left.

I wanted to expand to give myself an overlap on my right.

The third rank could not expand because it was in contact with enemy.

The 4th rank could not expand because the BG would have ended not in a normal formation (ranks other than the rear would have had less bases than the front).

Is this right?

In 6.00 yes.

How about this:

Only bases that fulfil the following criteria can be moved:
o They must not be in a position to contribute to combat prior to being moved (with dice or by creating a Point of Advantage (POA)).
o They must not have any enemy bases in front edge contact with them, nor able to fight them as an overlap.
o Moving them must not result in contraction by more than one file on any side of the battle group.

Does that solve it?

(I suspect that "nor able to fight them as an overlap" is redundant, but have left it in for safety)