Slitherine

we had a situation in our last game where my elephants faced off against a unit of Roman heavies who were being supported by their own Numidian elephants as an overlap. Eventually my elephants were forced to take a CT for losing a combat. Since they lost a combat against an elephant, we took the -1 for losing against elephant on the CT. Just seems kind of odd that elephants would be affected by elephants but could not find any exceptions in the rule book.
I was just wondering if they did not have to take the extra -1 since they were elephants.

Well, lancers lose to lancers and take -1. So I would assume nellies have the same problem

The rules were designed to be as simple as would be consistent with a reasonable simulation.

Lots of additional modifiers and exceptions to modifiers could have been added if we wanted to improve the "realism" (arguable) of the simulation at the expense of complicating game-play.

This is one of the exceptions that did not make the cut. (As was the one for African elephants facing Indian elephants).

Elephant on elephant situations do not occur often enough to justify the extra complication. (Except perhaps in elephant porn movies, if they exist).

rbodleyscott wrote:
Elephant on elephant situations do not occur often enough to justify the extra complication. (Except perhaps in elephant porn movies, if they exist).

They do, but they are called "Nature documentaries"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... he_Jungle/

Whats grey and comes in buckets

deadtorius wrote:we had a situation in our last game where my elephants faced off against a unit of Roman heavies who were being supported by their own Numidian elephants as an overlap. Eventually my elephants were forced to take a CT for losing a combat. Since they lost a combat against an elephant, we took the -1 for losing against elephant on the CT. Just seems kind of odd that elephants would be affected by elephants but could not find any exceptions in the rule book.
I was just wondering if they did not have to take the extra -1 since they were elephants.

I think that a winning excited elephant can terrorize also other elephants. Doesn't matter who you are

Is sooooOoOOooo not clicking on that link!!!!

I'm not going near that link either

Nice to know we played it right, of course guess it makes sense in this case as I had Indian elephants and Blatherguts were African.

my sides hurt! lol!

Blathergut wrote:Is sooooOoOOooo not clicking on that link!!!!

The video stopped me with the write "not available in your area". Do I have to feel lucky?!

Maybe the proximity of the holy pope here in Italy saved us all