I had a unit of Hussars who charged disordered cuirassier, while pursuing their original wavering target which broke, they burst through said cuirassier so were right in the way. Should have been a flank charge but it was towards the end of the game and I suggested they counter charge
. Anyway off to the side of this melee was a unit of Cossacks, next to impossible to get them to do anything like charging the Cuirassier frontally so the pursuing Hussars could have hit them in the flank and forced split dice but what can you do? What I had wanted to do was to bring the cossacks up for flank support. In this situation the Cossacks were at 90 degrees to this melee as the Cuirassier had originally been facing them and the Hussars came up on their flank and with my mistaken allowing counter charge the Cuirassier had turned to face the Hussars. The Cossacks could have moved up to the side of the Cuirassier unit but would have ended up slightly in front of the Hussars, but that would have put the Cuirassier into the "support area" of the Cossacks.
Sorry if thats all confusing but would it have been a legal combat support situation or do you have to be adjacent to and more or less facing the same direction as the supported unit?
Supporting fire sates you have to be adjacent but support for combat says you have to be within a base width, the Cossacks easily could have gotten that close, enemy has to be in support area, does that include straight ahead or just ahead and to a side?
Blathergut said no but I could have used a few extra dice in that combat.... stupid exceptional charismatic commander managed to make it close enough to rally them from wavering right after I had killed their Divisional commander, but just before I charged them!
