Slitherine

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.

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

Pete

makes the inevitable routs tidier?

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

Cheers,
Scott

Looks pretty?

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.

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

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

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