How close?

bobm · Post by **bobm** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:15 am

This cropped up last night with elephants and light horse...
How close can you get to a BG you aren't charging?
The rules cover the limits when within 2 MUs, you can conform by wheeling...so you don't get closer. However you can ignore skirmishers for this rule....so is there an "absolute minimum" gap?

lawrenceg · Post by **lawrenceg** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:27 am

If you reread the section on the 2 MU restricted area you will find that you are allowed to move straight ahead towards the enemy BG, even if it is not skirmishers.

There is no minimum distance that you have to stop at. You just have to stop before contact, even if it is only 1 nm* away.

* nanometre, not nautical mile.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:41 am

I believe the official smalles distance is the "gnat's todger" - of course the actual distance of this depends on whether it is imperial or metric

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:59 am

It's called a "pintelho" in Portuguese metric measurements.

bobm · Post by **bobm** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:05 am

thanks all......

frederic · Post by **frederic** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:41 am

"Un poil de cul" in french

shall · Post by **shall** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:18 pm

The only distance limit is 1MU when charging a flank or raer .. otherwise you can rev up from very close ... FOG power.

Si

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:23 pm

And that 1MU only concerns wheeling.

lawrenceg · Post by **lawrenceg** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:29 pm

nikgaukroger wrote:And that 1MU only concerns wheeling.

And only flank charges. P56, second bullet.

shall · Post by **shall** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:39 pm

Correct

Si

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:49 pm

nikgaukroger wrote:I believe the official smalles distance is the "gnat's todger" - of course the actual distance of this depends on whether it is imperial or metric

Uh, in the US, the smallest increment of measurement for distances is the "RCH"

footslogger · Post by **footslogger** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:26 pm

epsilon

ars_belli · Post by **ars_belli** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:05 pm

I have always been rather partial to the "smidgen" myself.

Cheers,
Scott

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:11 pm

frederic, Babelfish translates 'Un poil de cul' from French into English as 'A hair of bottom'. Does that make sense? Nik's is the SI unit as far as I am aware.