Slitherine

With all the recent talk of visibility, I was wondering how visibility in general is defined. For instance, you cannot charge a BG, unless it is visible to you when you start your charge. Does the enemy unit need to be in front of the unit charging? I played a game last Sunday where my opponent was turned 90 degrees from my unit, but had the movement to wheel and then contact me even though he wasn't facing me, and therefore declared a charge on me. At first I thought he couldn't do this, but then realized that an arc of visibility isn't defined in the rules. Is it 360 degrees? And if so, I guess his charge was a legal charge?

Thanks

Peter

pcelella wrote:With all the recent talk of visibility, I was wondering how visibility in general is defined. For instance, you cannot charge a BG, unless it is visible to you when you start your charge. Does the enemy unit need to be in front of the unit charging? I played a game last Sunday where my opponent was turned 90 degrees from my unit, but had the movement to wheel and then contact me even though he wasn't facing me, and therefore declared a charge on me. At first I thought he couldn't do this, but then realized that an arc of visibility isn't defined in the rules. Is it 360 degrees? And if so, I guess his charge was a legal charge?

It isn't defined because there is no restriction. Yes to both.

I' ve always taken the arc of visibility to be all round...someone somewhere in the BG looking any given way.

However, a wheel in a charge may only include a singe wheel of up to 90' so it's possible from your description that the charge in your game wasn't within the rules.

Martin

WhiteKnight wrote:I' ve always taken the arc of visibility to be all round...someone somewhere in the BG looking any given way.

However, a wheel in a charge may only include a singe wheel of up to 90' so it's possible from your description that the charge in your game wasn't within the rules.

Martin

Nah, his wheel was probably exactly 90 degrees and it appears it was legal. I thought it was, but I just wanted to make sure that that was the correct interpretation for future games. It does make sense, IMHO, because like you say, of course anyone in the unit can look it any direction.

Thanks for the input guys.

Peter