Slitherine

This cropped up last night with elephants and light horse...
How close can you get to a BG you aren't charging?
The rules cover the limits when within 2 MUs, you can conform by wheeling...so you don't get closer. However you can ignore skirmishers for this rule....so is there an "absolute minimum" gap?

If you reread the section on the 2 MU restricted area you will find that you are allowed to move straight ahead towards the enemy BG, even if it is not skirmishers.

There is no minimum distance that you have to stop at. You just have to stop before contact, even if it is only 1 nm* away.




* nanometre, not nautical mile.

I believe the official smalles distance is the "gnat's todger" - of course the actual distance of this depends on whether it is imperial or metric

It's called a "pintelho" in Portuguese metric measurements.

thanks all......

"Un poil de cul" in french

The only distance limit is 1MU when charging a flank or raer .. otherwise you can rev up from very close ... FOG power.

Si

And that 1MU only concerns wheeling.

nikgaukroger wrote:And that 1MU only concerns wheeling.

And only flank charges. P56, second bullet.

Correct

Si

nikgaukroger wrote:I believe the official smalles distance is the "gnat's todger" - of course the actual distance of this depends on whether it is imperial or metric

Uh, in the US, the smallest increment of measurement for distances is the "RCH"

epsilon

I have always been rather partial to the "smidgen" myself.

Cheers,
Scott

frederic, Babelfish translates 'Un poil de cul' from French into English as 'A hair of bottom'. Does that make sense? Nik's is the SI unit as far as I am aware.