Losing dice for disdr if only 2 bses are disdrd out of 4 ?

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Keith
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Losing dice for disdr if only 2 bses are disdrd out of 4 ?

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I cunningly lured some Roman Legion into a forest .
It was a 4 base battlegroup , and two bases were in the woods.

2 bases were in the woods and disorder means they lose 1 dice/3

But the two in the woods were getting one dice each for a total of 2 , so they didn't lose any dice in the combat.

Correct ?
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Post by hammy »

Correct,

Essentially swordsmen are not that badly affected by terrain and loss of formation. Spearmen on the other hand stop being steady which against swordsmen is a bad thing.
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Post by petedalby »

When you say Roman Legion, do you mean HF or MF?

If HF, then they are seriously disordered and lose 1 dice per 2.

If MF, then Hammy is correct, although disordered, they should lose 1 dice per 3. As only 2 bases are disordered there is no loss of dice.

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petedalby wrote:When you say Roman Legion, do you mean HF or MF?

If HF, then they are seriously disordered and lose 1 dice per 2.

If MF, then Hammy is correct, although disordered, they should lose 1 dice per 3. As only 2 bases are disordered there is no loss of dice.

Pete
Good point Pete although when I come to think about it there is no such thing as woods in FoG.

In short if you are losing 1 per 3 and only have 2 impacted bases you lose nothing. There is a similar effect when you have a BG of elephants in the middle of a line of your own mounted.
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Post by petedalby »

I cunningly lured some Roman Legion into a forest .
:wink:

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Post by hammy »

petedalby wrote:
I cunningly lured some Roman Legion into a forest .
:wink:

Pete
OK, so I read the second line, not the first :oops:

You are therfore right Pete, the legionaries would be severely dissordered and lose 1 dice for every 2 :roll:
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Post by Keith »

Thanks guys , dam those romans :)
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