Hi all
Finally got a first couple of games in last night and came up with a few questions that I wanted to ask, for each question we came up with our own ruling but I thought I would ask them on here to see what people think
1) Troops in open order firing – we decided that only figures with a clear line of sight to the enemy could fire and friendly troops in the same unit would block LoS, but I want to check if that was ok or if troops in open order could fire through other friendly troops in their unit
2) Moving through friendly troops – we had a situation where a cavalry unit wanted to move through a friendly unit in open order; we couldn’t find any rule, so we decided that the friendly unit would count as rough terrain and so the cavalry had to roll 2 d6 and take the highest roll as their movement that activation. We also decided that you can’t move through close order units
3) Close order columns – one of the players deployed a unit of infantry in close order but instead of being a line of men 2 deep he deployed them in a column 2 men wide so they could march up a road, so we decided that only the first 2 rows could fire or engage in close combat (4 men) but they would move 6” whilst in that formation, but I would be interested in getting your feelings on this formation as I imagine its one that people might use in games?
My general feelings on the games were positive, I thought the rules were simple enough to pick up quickly but had enough tactical depth to keep players thinking. the use of characters I think really made the game come alive and changed it from being a simplistic game to one that really worked on multiple levels, one thing we all said was this was a game where the rules didn’t get in the way and any issues we came up with were sorted out easily.
I was going to take some pictures but got so involved in the games that I forgot, sorry
Cheers
Mike