Post by barritus on Aug 7, 2022 7:47:54 GMT
Hi
Hoping to get some clarification here.
The other day some friends and I were playing a game of BBDBA.
Eventually one of our sides commands became demoralised. This command contained a number of elephants. One of which was facing sideways (parallel to the back table edges) and was closer to the enemy back board edge than to its own. Furthermore if the elephant turned 90 degrees and did a flee move towards its own back table edge it would collide into the rear of an enemy element (Bow) before completing its flee move. So the question was:
If we let that Elephant flee (ie didn't spend PIPs to hold it in place) what would happen? As usual people had differing views these being:
1. The elephant would flee to its immediate rear (without turning towards it own baseline).
2. The elephant would turn 90 degrees and flee towards it own rear board edge but would stop when contacting the enemy elephant (and fight it next turn - with a -2 CF for being demoralised).
3. The elephant would turn 90 degrees and flee towards it own rear board edge and both it and the enemy element contacted are destroyed as the Bow was impeding the Elephant from completing its flee move.
We played it as option 2 tho personally I thought option 3 may have been the correct one (the fact that the Bw loss would have demoralised an enemy command had of course no bearing on my preference
).
Cheers
Barritus
Hoping to get some clarification here.
The other day some friends and I were playing a game of BBDBA.
Eventually one of our sides commands became demoralised. This command contained a number of elephants. One of which was facing sideways (parallel to the back table edges) and was closer to the enemy back board edge than to its own. Furthermore if the elephant turned 90 degrees and did a flee move towards its own back table edge it would collide into the rear of an enemy element (Bow) before completing its flee move. So the question was:
If we let that Elephant flee (ie didn't spend PIPs to hold it in place) what would happen? As usual people had differing views these being:
1. The elephant would flee to its immediate rear (without turning towards it own baseline).
2. The elephant would turn 90 degrees and flee towards it own rear board edge but would stop when contacting the enemy elephant (and fight it next turn - with a -2 CF for being demoralised).
3. The elephant would turn 90 degrees and flee towards it own rear board edge and both it and the enemy element contacted are destroyed as the Bow was impeding the Elephant from completing its flee move.
We played it as option 2 tho personally I thought option 3 may have been the correct one (the fact that the Bw loss would have demoralised an enemy command had of course no bearing on my preference
).Cheers
Barritus
.