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Post by bob on Aug 12, 2020 4:07:26 GMT
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Post by jim1973 on Aug 12, 2020 9:58:40 GMT
I agree that the contact is legal. So I think they would stack up in column. But I don't know who gets to choose which element ends up in front of the column. In the spirit of the game, the log men should choose!
Cheers
Jim
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Post by stevie on Aug 12, 2020 12:24:53 GMT
I agree with Jim...both Roman Blades need to turn-to-face.
(However, which turns first to become the front rank of the
column is debatable)
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Post by medievalthomas on Aug 12, 2020 17:25:45 GMT
Just for consistency I would have the front element turn and others tuck in behind.
TomT
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Post by martini on Aug 13, 2020 11:18:52 GMT
I'd resolve by rolling a dice: odds and the left hand Roman element turns to face with the right hand element tucking in behind, evens and the right hand Roman turns to face with the left hand tucking in behind.
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Post by Tony Aguilar on Aug 13, 2020 11:31:44 GMT
In situations where something like this comes up (usually if for instance contact is made and it is split exactly 50-50 as to which way the units conform) we let the ATTACKER decide since they are the bounding player.
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Post by jim1973 on Aug 15, 2020 8:02:18 GMT
In situations where something like this comes up (usually if for instance contact is made and it is split exactly 50-50 as to which way the units conform) we let the ATTACKER decide since they are the bounding player. An excellent rule of thumb! Jim |
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Post by bob on Aug 17, 2020 6:05:14 GMT
Thanks for the good comments. In the event, we agreed that the right Blade was an actual legal contact and so would turn into frontal contact with the log/SCh and the left blade would fit in beind. The Blades were on the original narrow bases so turned with no edge contact with the Horde to the right. The left Blade, however, went from doing nothing to now in flank edge overlap with the right Horde. The Sch beat the front Blade and so destroyed it, the back Blade was then hit by the pursuing SCh. It still gave overlap against the Horde which was easily doubled at +5 vs +1
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Post by stevie on Aug 17, 2020 7:56:20 GMT
That seems like a good solution to the situation Bob.
I must admit that I hadn’t realized that the slave unit on the right was a Horde.
This has got me thinking...since Hordes don’t recoil, was it worth having the
Roman Blade ‘hard flanking’ them?
Having a corner-to-corner overlap (like the green shielded Auxiliaries), or even a
mutual side-edge to side-edge contact, would have been as good for the Romans.
Moving the Blade to attack the Horde flank was just a waste of a Roman PIP.
On the other hand, even Fast 5Hd must recoil from Solid Foot on an equal score...
...but CF 5 v CF 3-2 for the overlaps only has 2 chances out of 36 of getting equal,
so it still seems a bit pointless for the Romans.
Just a thought.
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Post by bob on Aug 19, 2020 19:56:50 GMT
The Romans lost.
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