Slitherine

In an effort to learn the rules, my four BG's of Gallic Foot hit four BG's of Italian Foot with 5 hits to 1 against the Gallic Foot during the Impact Phase. The Cohesion Test for the IF produced 8. My question concerns the correct calculation of the modifiers against the Cohesion test. I count four modifiers: 1 HP3B, at least two more hits..., commander with BG, lost impact phase against impact foot. I calc 8 - 3 +1 = 6 and the Italian Foot drops to DISR. Am I correct or did I go wrong somewhere?
This is my first experience with FoG so any helpful advice will be appreciated.

MS

That looks fine to me MS.

Now rear support would have got you that magic extra +1 to hit 7 and not drop a level!

Rob

And of course it's one Cohesion test per BG which lost in the impact phase - not one test for all 4 BGs
(or did you mean one BG made up of 4 bases)?

not one test for all 4 BGs

This is important because it sounds like you had 4 BGs vs 4 BGs and all 4 BGs combined for 5 hits. When considering if a BG won or lost, you only look at the number of casualties that BG gave vs how many it received. You calculate each BG separately.

Yes my description was confusing. I rolled 8 dice to determine hits because there were 4 bases in contact and they were 2 deep, which I assumed made 4 BG's and I'm guessing was an error. The 4x2 bases all joined together should have been referenced as a single BG...right!?

Right - two battlegroups of 8 stands each, two deep.
so 4 stands v 4 in contact - 8 dice each.
Looks like your calculation is correct - the Italian foot drop 1 level.

blucosmon wrote:Yes my description was confusing. I rolled 8 dice to determine hits because there were 4 bases in contact and they were 2 deep, which I assumed made 4 BG's and I'm guessing was an error. The 4x2 bases all joined together should have been referenced as a single BG...right!?

A Battle group is a single "unit" made from 2 to 12 bases.

In impact only bases in contact with enemy get dice and each gets 2 dice*. Both sides fight with the same nuber of bases.


So if each side had 4 bases in contact each would roll 8 dice. If each side had 2 bases in contact each would roll 4 dice.

Added Info.

If one player had three bases in contact and the other player 4 then each side would only fight with three bases, 6 dice, but the player with 4 bases would decide which three of his fought.

*Once you find the total dice to roll then adjust for other things such as being light troops against battle troops, disorder, disruption, fragmentation.

In melee most troop types roll 1 dice for each base in contact and one for each base in a second rank directly behind the ones in contact. Knights, chariots, arty, (BWg) get 2 for each front rank and no rear rank,