SteveT

This situation threw up lots of confusion:  2 Gallic war bands vs 4 small Camillan Roman infantry.

(Q1) We assumed it is rolled as 2 fights. Is anything in support at the start of the round? (see pic) We assumed not as all units are engaged at the front.

So after round 1. One Gaul unit won the fight. Its two Roman opposing units had to roll…[Read more]

I am surprised by the Black Powder/Hail/Pike series in that terrain seems only to affect movement and shooting.

Not seen anywhere that it affects, say, a heavy formed unit, being more easily taken down by lights in rough terrain?Perhaps I am missing something

On my image, I have a pair of units attacking an enemy pair. One enemy has to give ground. The winner doesn’t follow them.

So now we have 1 unit with friend (the winner of the first fight) on its flank  vs  1 enemy. Does the friend get to support this new fight?

Sorry for bombard of questions, hoping these help others too.

Unit of skirmishes, red on my image, looking at  friend infantry  in combat with enemy infantry (see pic).

What can they do? Not allowed to charge at formed or shoot into combat..

I can see their large fighting values are excellent 1 on 1. But don’t you open yourself up to being attacked by 2 regular sized units on the front flank? From what I have seen, 2 regulars ‘outgun’ a large.

Any input welcome!

Unit counts occur when building army lists and determining break points.

But what do you do about Small/Tiny/Large units?   2 smalls make 1 regular?

Cheers

Had this situation earlier.

One Macedonian unit, facing off against a line of 3 Persian units.  (So 1 supporting left and 1 supporting right)

A Persian Light Horse was somewhere to the left flank of the Macedonians, not engaged.

The rules say only 1 support per flank allowed.

I believe as the Persians were not starting the turn fully BEHIND…[Read more]

Not only don’t agree but are opposite in meaning…

From p.72 rules:

• On the roll of a 6 ‘to hit’ by ranged attacks requiring less than 6 to hit.

From Quick Ref sheet

• On the roll of a 6 ‘to hit’ by ranged attacks requiring better than 6 to hit.

Which is it?

-1 on Ranged attacks vs cataphracts/heavy infantry.

That is odd, since these units were slow and didn’t present fast moving targets. If it is because of their protection, then surely this is equivalent to troops behind cover.

Is this an error?  (I am using the Quick Ref sheet that Warlord put out)

Cheers

Looking at page 23, why do small infantry units have the same frontage as standard units?

I was thinking that 2 small units can align to fight 1 standard unit, but this wouldn’t be the case according to p 23.

Cheers