Slitherine

Are rear rank bases stuck in position once there. Imagine a BG of 8 bases:


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Can the 2 confused chaps at the back slide left or right whilst the BG moves around normally, or are they stuck there until the BG expands again or contracts?

Can't think of any rule that allows you to move them so I assume they are stuck

Aren't the back rankers supposed to be all the way out to the sides, as opposed to in the interior like that? I think I recall that formations are supposed to be as nearly rectangular as possible.

Marc

I don't think it says where they are supposed to be.

One such situation happened in a game with a friend (my bad deployment for trying to take advantage of some terrain features) and when I tryed to change the formation I searched the book looking if I can simply shift the bases during normal movement, well there's no rule that allow you to do so, you have to contract/expand in order to move some badly deployed stand.

babyshark wrote:Aren't the back rankers supposed to be all the way out to the sides, as opposed to in the interior like that? I think I recall that formations are supposed to be as nearly rectangular as possible.

Marc

If you read page 23 you will see that it does not say that and there is an example of a BG with the rear rank bases not all the way out to the sides.


AFAIK the only ways to rearrange bases in a BG are:

Reform only if you are not in a legal formation
Contract or expand
Change to or from Orb formation
Replace lost base

Contracting and expanding in this context includes normal movement, dropping back bases in a charge, evade or rout and feeding more bases into an existing melee.

Reform only if you are not in a legal formation
Contract or expand
Change to or from Orb formation
Replace lost base

Turn to flank and turn back again !!

Thank you terrys.....I hope to get a chance to do it that way tomorrow.