Roman "special" interpenetration?

[njb2729]

I was interested to note that the interpenetration rules P.48 state that certain armies are allowed special interpenetrations. I would have thought the Romans would have been a prime candidate for this but see no amendments in the Rise of Rome supplement.

Was this considered and rejected? What armies will benefit from these "special" rules?

Just interested in the design reasoning....

Cheers

Nick

[hammy]

I was interested to note that the interpenetration rules P.48 state that certain armies are allowed special interpenetrations. I would have thought the Romans would have been a prime candidate for this but see no amendments in the Rise of Rome supplement.

Was this considered and rejected? What armies will benefit from these "special" rules?

Just interested in the design reasoning....

Cheers

Nick

Armies with 'special interpentration' are allowed to move dissimilar troops through each other outside melee when this is historically attested.

Roman 'line relief' is moving similar troops 'through' while in melee

In the early days of testing there was a line relief system but it proved very complex to cover all the situations that could occur and as it now seems that some modern scholars believe that the first two lines of a Roman legion may have infact worked far more closely together than the recieved version. As Roman relief was essentially at the manipular level and in the scale of FOG a maniple is a fraction of a base the Roman relief was removed and the effect rolled up into the combat effectiveness of the combined formation.