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Where do archers put their stakes when defending artillery?

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:32 am
by RonanTheLibrarian
This is a rules clarification, generated by an incident in a game at Warfare 2017, and a reminder to Nik to look at what happens when archers are defending artillery and they have defensive stakes. Do these go:-
(a) in front of the guns (on the basis that troops defending guns notionally have their bases level with the front of the gun bases);
(b) in front of the archers, but to the rear of the guns; or
(c) both, if the frontage of the archers is wider than the frontage of the guns (ie overlapping archer bases are actually level with the front of the gun bases)?

Re: Where do archers put their stakes when defending artille

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:25 pm
by quackstheking
For the sake of aesthetics and so they don't get forgotten, I would place them in front of the guns (as the bow are theoretically level with the guns and move the guns back the width of the stakes as per point 3 of the the portable defences rules on page 158.

Don