Heavy Artillery

[Polkovnik]

I'm expecting to be facing some Heavy Artillery in some games at the weeekend and I have some questions :
1) Are there any restrictions on where it can be deployed ? If it can be deployed in terrain, is it disordered / severely disordered.
2) It appears that if contacted in the flank or rear it would turn to face (as it's not listed as an exception). Is that correct ? If it turns, is it then stuck facing that direction with no way of turning back ?

[DavidT]

1) Heavy artillery cannot be deployed in Difficult terrain (p 146).
2) It does turn to face. You needn't worry about it turning back again as 999 times out of 1000 it will be destroyed. At least that is what normally happens to mine.

[Polkovnik]

1) Heavy artillery cannot be deployed in Difficult terrain (p 146)

Right, so presumably it can be deployed in rough or uneven terrain and does not suffer disorder. I suppose you would assume that a placement area has been cleared in the terrain.

[peterrjohnston]

2) It does turn to face. You needn't worry about it turning back again as 999 times out of 1000 it will be destroyed. At least that is what normally happens to mine.

Not sure about that, depends on how you interpret "immovable once set-up". Also, you can never count as charging the flank or rear if they are behind and in contact with FF, which is likely if someone is using heavy artillery. (That's contact with, not frontal contact, so FF along the side-edge prevents any charge counting as a flank charge).

Pete Dalby and myself had a discussion about this a while back, but search is knackered so I can't remember what we both wrote. But it's a bit of an edge-case though.