Slitherine

Hi,

The new wording for p.26 Declaration of Charges quite succinctly says "If a battle group is revealed and can now be contacted due to friends evading or breaking and routing, it becomes a target of the charge..."

Should you not also add "or intervening friends moving away in an intercept charge" (or something like that) as intercept charges occur before evades and might be equally as revealing?

We are assuming the the interceptors are not a legit target of the original charge, e.g. they are steady non-skirmishers and the chargers are skirmishers and the charge target and the revealed target are legit targets for skirmishers and the non-active player for some reason wants to intercept something else...

Cheers,

Steve

A good point but IMO very unlikely (if not actually impossible) to happen because a BG cannot make an interception charge if it is itself charged.

The only way I can think this might happen would be if a BG more than 2 mu behind a BG of skirmishers that are charged makes an interception and in that circumstance the normal rules would work well enough.

One of the things that has tried to be done is not to cover every really obscure situation simply because it massively complicates the rules and such peculiarites can be covered by an FAQ or equivalent for those who really want the nitty gritty.

I am still trying to setup in my mind a situation where a BG can intercept to get out of the way of a charge without there being another BG in the way and at the moment I can't

Hammy, as per my post: the chargers are skirmishers and the heading-off-interceptors aren't a legit target for them, i.e. steady Cav with enough move to be involved elsewhere.

Agree that it is highly unlikely but as Pratchett always says, its those million to one chances that always happen Besides, no one gets into more unusual scrapes than wargamers.

Steve

edit: Ps agree about philosophy of covering usual stuff and FAQ for the rest but this is in response to an amendment that felt the need to explicitly state reasons for revelation and we had one come up last night that wasn't covered.