Can WarWagons pursue routing troops?

urbanbunny1 · Post by **urbanbunny1** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:00 am

Hi, I ran into this one last night at the club.

My battle group of two warwagons had been charged by Cav, with ultimately the cav loosing (the supporting knights may have had something to do with it).

The cav routed and we were wondering if the war wagons could choose to pursue. From the rules, it says that you must pursue unless you are war wagon, so, sure, I don't have to, but could I have?

The aim of the pursuit was not to contact the cav again, but the light horse who were 1 MU away from the cav when they started the rout.

Thanks

Simon

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:18 am

urbanbunny1 wrote:Hi, I ran into this one last night at the club.

My battle group of two warwagons had been charged by Cav, with ultimately the cav loosing (the supporting knights may have had something to do with it).

The cav routed and we were wondering if the war wagons could choose to pursue. From the rules, it says that you must pursue unless you are war wagon, so, sure, I don't have to, but could I have?

No.

(Ignore the inevitable 3 day argument from the rules lawyers, the answer will still be no.)

TERRYFROMSPOKANE · Post by **TERRYFROMSPOKANE** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:18 pm

RBS, you're a real kill joy!

Terry G.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:20 pm

What about if they passed a CMT? Could they do it then?

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:37 pm

philqw78 wrote:What about if they passed a CMT? Could they do it then?

/smack Phil

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:05 pm

The very image of a slow moving high-sided wooden vehicle pursuing anything is almost too amusing for words

Dale

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:33 pm

Yes I can almost see the slow trundling creaking war wagons rushing off to pursue a broken enemy.... NOT!!

Lets hope thats it for the 3 days of arguments.

hazelbark · Post by **hazelbark** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:22 pm

daleivan wrote:The very image of a slow moving high-sided wooden vehicle pursuing anything is almost too amusing for words

But made it into many a Hollywood movie.

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:47 pm

hazelbark wrote:
daleivan wrote:The very image of a slow moving high-sided wooden vehicle pursuing anything is almost too amusing for words
But made it into many a Hollywood movie.

Quite true, along with plentiful use of incendiary weaponry on the battlefield (such as the blazing logs rolled into the hapless legionairies in the final battle in Spartacus, or the incendiary spewing artillery in Gladiator --"that's not naptha that's napalm"

Dale

MarkSieber · Post by **MarkSieber** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:17 am

What about this one?

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:45 am

Am I to expect your Condotta to deploy this?

Dale

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:01 pm

I must say tht picture does not appear to match the game description of "battle wagon"

Obvously rules for man powered flying vehicles seems to have been neglected, oh well....

MarkSieber · Post by **MarkSieber** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:41 pm

In this case I suspect 'flying vehicles' are akin to 'flying columns', and never get off the ground. However, the apparatus should give enough lift to allow for pursuit.

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:02 am

good point, I am sure the issue will be adressed in the FAQ's one of these days

Can WarWagons pursue routing troops?

Can WarWagons pursue routing troops?

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