Conforming - why?

[nikgaukroger]

Bugged me for a while this one and I can't recall seeing an explanation.

Why bother having conforming at all in FoG?

The rules for non-conformed combat work so why have the conforming rules which can lead to what can be seen as odd situations occuring when BGs move a long way to conform?

I'd be interested in the writers thinking on this.

[petedalby]

Totally agree Nik - the point was made during testing. Conforming can lead to strange situations - and unexpecte outcomes.

Pete

[madaxeman]

makes the inevitable routs tidier?

[ars_belli]

Because historically, opposing battle lines tended not to remain at odd angles to one another as the fighting progressed?

Cheers,
Scott

[carlos]

Looks pretty?

[Ranimiro]

I think it is mainly because it simplifies the modeling of a rout, push, etc... imagine trying to model a unit chasing or routing in diagonal through your BGs? Pretty nasty and always a conflictive situation.

[vercingetorix]

I think that in real life, the lines squared off naturally as meele progressed

[MarkSieber]

I'd say more like collapsed together, rather than squared It does make things a bit tidier on table.

[timmy1]

So it has nothing to do with Wargames largely suffering from OCD and having an uncontrolable urge to tidy up the battle lines then...