Shock Troops Mandatory Charges

[carlos]

You can bait shock foot with LF, and in that circumstance it can help to be drilled so you don't lose formation.

[Empgamer]

It is usually an issue of bad timing, or failure to screen your foot from enemy light foot skirmishers. The CMT gives the player a chance to hold them long enough for friends to catch up. However, a really skilled player would not get into such a position. (At least, that is the theory - it gives us all something to aim for anyway).

Precisely. At first there will be quite a few players who are not skilled at the rules and as ever, best laid plans etc etc......... In fairness I really like the mechanism (as I pointed out when first posting). The thread then seems to take a somewhat strange turn with a "but why would you want to", a a different discussion altogether. My comments were around the CMT and/or other actions that one could take if, NOTE IF, you wished to restrain a charge for whatever reason (including getting it wrong)

[nikgaukroger]

Sometimes your troops know better than you do. Last week I had a BG of Ghaznavid Impact Foot Ghazis in reach of a BG of Hannibal's Superior spearmen, I didn't want them to charge until next move, however, they decided that charge they would - disrupted the spearmen at Impact, fragged them in Melee and broke them the following turn. They obviously were better judges of the situation than I

[Empgamer]

Oh I don't mind if they win Decimation if they don't

[nikgaukroger]

Obviously a raw deal in the Roman army, if they lose in a Moslem one they're martyrs and are guaranteed a place in heaven