Slitherine

This is a minor issue but something that has happened to me before, and seems easy to fix.

Lets say you have a unit that is mixed troops. We'll take Roman foot with LF support as the example. Your unit is deployed like so:

HF | HF
HF | HF
LF | LF

Now lets say you are attacked, and expand the 2 LF onto the overlap position to get an extra die, so your unit is now like so:

LF | HF | HF
LF | HF | HF

Then, as a result of the combat, lets say you break your opponent, but lose two stands of heavy foot in the process. Your unit is now like so:

LF | HF
LF | HF


The problem occurs at this point, where in order to get the Light Foot back into the rear rank, you have to expand and then contract, or do a 90 degree turn and then wheel to face the same direction. Both of these things are often impossible given the position of nearby units. You cannot simply reform, because you are in a legal formation as is.

It'd be nice to see a CMT move that allows you to rearrange the bases within a BG while keeping the same formation, to fix odd things like this.

Or perhaps this is intended? I dunno!

Is it a legal formation? In a legal formation, every base has at least one edge and one corner contact with its neighbours.

In this formation

LF | HF
LF | HF

the 2nd rank HF hasn't any corner contact with the 2nd rank LF.

That is actually a good point. It is not a legal formation.

It would be a legal formation if it was MF with LF in back of it, but I'm not sure many armies have that.

Probably not worth fretting over, then.