Deployment on 5'x3'

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Deployment on 5'x3'

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What deployment zones do you use with 600 points on 5'x3' tables?

The normal ones are too close to each other with charging LF on the first turn.
But using the same distances as on 6'x4' doesn't make up for a faster start.
Anything in between?
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Post by Robert241167 »

Hi there.

The competitions Hammy set up were 650 points and usual deployment distances. If you didn't want skirmishers to be charged you didn't set up the full distance in.

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Post by berthier »

For competitions using a 5x3 table, we routinely use 12" and 7" in the GCC. It has worked pretty good.
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Post by david53 »

Robert241167 wrote:Hi there.

The competitions Hammy set up were 650 points and usual deployment distances. If you didn't want skirmishers to be charged you didn't set up the full distance in.

Rob
Its better fun keeping the 10mu and 15mu IMO
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Its better fun keeping the 10mu and 15mu IMO
Agreed.
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Post by acl »

For a very successful 650 point tournament in the Central London club we've been using 12 inches (for lights) and 8 inches.

Can't comment on the other distances suggested as I have not tried them.

Whatever deployment limits you choose, though, I would very much recommend this format. I much prefer it to 800 pts on 6 ft x 4. It gives tighter, faster action and has encouraged many people at our club to try Fog.

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Re: Deployment on 5'x3'

Post by Strategos69 »

Mehrunes wrote:What deployment zones do you use with 600 points on 5'x3' tables?

The normal ones are too close to each other with charging LF on the first turn.
But using the same distances as on 6'x4' doesn't make up for a faster start.
Anything in between?
Intead of 3' use 100cm. A 150cm by 100cm works better with the standard deployment options. You only have to be attentive with LH charging in the first turn.

Hurrah for the metric system!
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Re: Deployment on 5'x3'

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Strategos69 wrote:Intead of 3' use 100cm. A 150cm by 100cm works better with the standard deployment options. You only have to be attentive with LH charging in the first turn.

Hurrah for the metric system!
I thought the lights would still be 10MU apart with a 1m (40") table depth. The only things closer would be those in ambush from the side moving second and if you can't see it you can't charge it. Unless the metric system is differenter than I thought.
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Re: Deployment on 5'x3'

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philqw78 wrote:I thought the lights would still be 10MU apart with a 1m (40") table depth. The only things closer would be those in ambush from the side moving second and if you can't see it you can't charge it. Unless the metric system is differenter than I thought.
You are right: if you take an inch as 2.54 cm, the lights are 9.37 inches appart. I usuallly take it as 2.5 cm thus making that my troops are 10MU away plus a few milimeters of the line I trace in both sides for delimiting the deployment. I meant that player 1 cannot charge from deployment positions in turn 1, whereas if you play in 3' deep tables player 1 can charge with his LH from turn 1 in deployment positions as they are 6 inches away. Thus, you can deploy your LF in front without less worries in 100cm tables without changing the deployment distances stated in the book.
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Post by Lycanthropic »

3' = 36". Halfway is 18". You deploy LF at 15". The enemy LF can be deployed at their 15", so 36 less 30 is.....6. How far does your LF charge? 8)
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Post by kevinj »

LF is not the issue. It is the LH who can charge on turn 1 if both sides deploy at 15".
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