Re: Conformation Problem
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:50 am
The combat is fought as if the elephants had contacted a front rank base (i.e. its not a flank combat) - that doesn't mean they magically move uphill.
I do indeed Steve - thanks.Pete don't you mean 3 elephant dice (new money) at impact?
But Page 62 (V2) says "is treated as a normal charge on the enemy front." So if the enemy front is uphill? Or behind fortifications? Why shouldn't they retain that benefit?It would seem very strange that by virtue of hitting the third rank base of MF the elephants POAs were calculated as if they had hit the front rank base. In other words as if the elephants were up on the hill and therefore counting 'up hill' of the MF when clearly they are not.
I don't actually know - but there is an argument to say they should - same applies to PO's and FF's.A side issue is whether they count uphill? Arguably they should but that would be an umpire's call.
And yet, in the OP, if the friendly foot BG wasn't there blocking it, that is exactly what would happen in the conform. The elephants would 'magically move uphill' or as the rules say, 'align with the enemy front' - and guess what, the enemy would be uphill and get the uphill bonus - so why shouldn't they get it at impact?The combat is fought as if the elephants had contacted a front rank base (i.e. its not a flank combat) - that doesn't mean they magically move uphill.
Well Pete has given a scenario where the elephants would indeed move magically uphill to align with the front of the MF. In fact in that scenario the elephants would be forced by the RAW to magically move uphill.pyruse wrote:The combat is fought as if the elephants had contacted a front rank base (i.e. its not a flank combat) - that doesn't mean they magically move uphill.