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In a recent historical game with the Italian wars I managed on several occasions to rear charge Swiss Keils. I believe the words rear charge popped up but they did not auto drop cohesion as I had expected. Is this different from the table top game? Does a rear charge just cause a test or are Keils more resistant? I have noticed a lack of morale drops from flank and rear charges in the games I have been playing.

deadtorius wrote:In a recent historical game with the Italian wars I managed on several occasions to rear charge Swiss Keils. I believe the words rear charge popped up but they did not auto drop cohesion as I had expected. Is this different from the table top game? Does a rear charge just cause a test or are Keils more resistant? I have noticed a lack of morale drops from flank and rear charges in the games I have been playing.

Keils should drop cohesion if charged in the rear by a non-light unit. Has certainly happened in games I've played including against a Swiss keil IIRC.

Basically this is all the same as the tabletop - keils and tercios do not count charged in the flank and early tercios also don't count charged in the rear.

1) It has to be a non-light unit charging. (You will see the Rear Charge message if a light unit does it, but it won't cause a cohesion drop).
2) It has to start from less than 45 degree from directly behind the rear. (Essentially that means directly behind, or a "knight's move" behind). 45 degrees doesn't do it.

And obviously, make sure they're not Early Tercios, which I'm guessing they're not.

Was due to some light cav charging into the rear. Forgot about that point. I have managed to get Gendarmes into the rear of an engaged Keil, that would drop cohesion on them. still takes forever to kill those things. I played a historical scenario where I shot a Keil to below 7oo men from 200+ starting point and they still hung around for a bit till they finally auto broke