Pivoting or sliding roads

lawrenceg · Post by **lawrenceg** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:09 pm

If my opponent places a road and I am able to pivot or slide it, does its length change so that it just reaches the table edges in the new position, or is the length fixed, possibly resulting in one or two dead ends?

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:28 pm

If my opponent places a road and I am able to pivot or slide it,

The rules are silent on this.

But why would you want to? How would it benefit you?

Pete

lawrenceg · Post by **lawrenceg** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:43 pm

petedalby wrote:
If my opponent places a road and I am able to pivot or slide it,
The rules are silent on this.

But why would you want to? How would it benefit you?

Pete

If he puts a road along one table edge (e.g. a flank) to block terrain placement, I could pivot it 90 degrees about one end to free that edge up and give me additional mobility for reserves along my base edge.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:52 pm

The rules do not allow terrain pieces to be re-sized, so it could not be pivotted, but could be slid. IMO.

Lycanthropic · Post by **Lycanthropic** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:26 am

Hook the road at the end so it cannot be slid.

expendablecinc · Post by **expendablecinc** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:59 am

At a comp a dartardly middle hungarian laid a 3.5 foot road along one of my flanks from his right hand edge along my flank to my base a few inches from the corner. By anchoring this way it prevented me from sliding it. The umpire ruled I couldnt slide it as that woudl change the road's length.

I rolled a 5 however, so rotated it so it started at the same place on his board edge but ran 3.5 feet along his own base edge to his somewhere just past the middle of his base. I was just lucky that there was no other terrain already on his base edge to do this.

It could be argued that the shaps of the road it then altered at the very ends as they change from cut at an angle to right angle cuts but if that were the case they would be impossible to slide.

I was fine with the ruling however my view is that roads are assumed to continue off the table (they are not langing strips or drag strips) and can be slid or pivoted. The intent of the table to enable a player to move a terrain piece is to prevent artificial terrain construction and the flank edge road it a major loop hole available to the horseboys otherwise.

Anthony

Lycanthropic wrote:Hook the road at the end so it cannot be slid.