Slitherine

I like using pike armies and use some nifty magnetised movement trays that allow 8 or sometimes 12 base units to move around so much more easily. However, I came across a problem with them during one of my recent Britcon games.

After deployment my opponent had a useful overlap on my line of pikes. I needed to move them to my right flank to prevent this. When I started to wheel each individual unit (of eight) I ran into a problem. I measured off the wheel but when I moved the unit forwards the rear bases fouled the unit next to them. I couldn't see a way round it and wasn't allowed to wheel. It's taken me a while to realise what went wrong and it's all down to the movement trays.

When an 8 base, 4 deep unit wants to wheel without using movement trays the front rank moves as far as it wants and the following ranks simply wheel at the same corner as the first rank and follow along. Of course, this could lead to the unit ending in a kinked column. With a 3" move the unit can wheel for 16mm, then advance the remaining 60mm (the unit's base depth) and there will be no kinked column. But wheel more than 16mm and there will be. Note, with a 4" move a unit can wheel up to 41mm without becoming kinked.

Not a problem everyone's going to face but this might be helpful if you're into movement trays...

Only columns become kinked, any bg 2 or more bases wide does not

Also units wheeling shift so they fit

So is there a way a contiguous line of, say, 6 8-base pike units can wheel individually?

Providing they shift no more than half a base