rear support

bahdahbum · Post by **bahdahbum** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:37 am

From the french spoeaking forum :

Do the supported unit have to SEE the suporting unit ( the supporting unit is in a wood, plantation , behind a hill ,... but within the 8 or 12 MU ) .

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:45 am

As far as I am concerned they just have to be there. The rules say nothing about visibility for support, just: distance, troop type supporting/supported, facing and numbers.

shall · Post by **shall** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:12 am

No.

We considered that in general troops would have reasonable awareness of where friends were. Otherwise you end up with some horrible vsisbility issues to deal with.

Si

marioslaz · Post by **marioslaz** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:19 am

philqw78 wrote:As far as I am concerned they just have to be there. The rules say nothing about visibility for support, just: distance, troop type supporting/supported, facing and numbers.

I would say the same, too. Still, this is not a silly question: it's enough to suppose your support should be there? Of course it's just a platonic question, since for me it's not important for game purpose.

bahdahbum · Post by **bahdahbum** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:42 pm

It was just to be sure !

It might lead to some interesting situation if the terrain between the 2 units is an impassable mountain

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:02 pm

bahdahbum wrote:It was just to be sure !

It might lead to some interesting situation if the terrain between the 2 units is an impassable mountain

Indeed, but this is another example of a situation in which we decided not to complicate the rules.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:31 pm

if the terrain between the 2 units is an impassable mountain

Well they would at least feel that their rear was secure

MadBanker · Post by **MadBanker** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:41 pm

philqw78 wrote:
if the terrain between the 2 units is an impassable mountain
Well they would at least feel that their rear was secure

Or... they could feel trapped

marioslaz · Post by **marioslaz** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:00 am

MadBanker wrote:
philqw78 wrote:
if the terrain between the 2 units is an impassable mountain
Well they would at least feel that their rear was secure
Or... they could feel trapped

I would say the same, but luckily I never found in this situation!