Slitherine

You can bait shock foot with LF, and in that circumstance it can help to be drilled so you don't lose formation.

It is usually an issue of bad timing, or failure to screen your foot from enemy light foot skirmishers. The CMT gives the player a chance to hold them long enough for friends to catch up. However, a really skilled player would not get into such a position. (At least, that is the theory - it gives us all something to aim for anyway).

Precisely. At first there will be quite a few players who are not skilled at the rules and as ever, best laid plans etc etc......... In fairness I really like the mechanism (as I pointed out when first posting). The thread then seems to take a somewhat strange turn with a "but why would you want to", a a different discussion altogether. My comments were around the CMT and/or other actions that one could take if, NOTE IF, you wished to restrain a charge for whatever reason (including getting it wrong)

Sometimes your troops know better than you do. Last week I had a BG of Ghaznavid Impact Foot Ghazis in reach of a BG of Hannibal's Superior spearmen, I didn't want them to charge until next move, however, they decided that charge they would - disrupted the spearmen at Impact, fragged them in Melee and broke them the following turn. They obviously were better judges of the situation than I

Oh I don't mind if they win Decimation if they don't

Obviously a raw deal in the Roman army, if they lose in a Moslem one they're martyrs and are guaranteed a place in heaven