Some beginners Questions
Hi, Managed to give the rules their first 'serious' roadtest over the weekend. A few situations seemed to crop up more than once which, hopefully, someone can help with. 1) a unit, in column, is moving at half-speed in difficult going. When it changes formation, into line, which takes a full turn, what happens? Does it deploy, but unformed until the following turn, or something different? 2) Are morale tests in the charge phase, for both attacker and defender, considered simultaneous? 3) Does reduced visibility distance effect the General's bonus? 4) A unit is unformed by friends retreating through it in the compulsory move phase. It remains stationary and so reforms in the movement phase which counts as a full move. Does it still count as unformed for firing purposes in that turn? 5) if a brigade skirmish screen is formed from units of different quality they recall as per their average morale. I assume that this also applies when testing morale. Does it also apply to the number of firing dice? 6) A unit disperses as a result of morale which causes a brigade morale check, which causes the brigade to retire. In the following turn do the remaining units still have to test morale for seeing the rout? Hope its not too much at once :oops: Ken

K, 1) a unit, in column, is moving at half-speed in difficult going. When it changes formation, into line, which takes a full turn, what happens? Does it deploy, but unformed until the following turn, or something different? A - It will take 2 turns to change formation. So, yes at the end of turn one its technically unformed. 2) Are morale tests in the charge phase, for both attacker and defender, considered simultaneous? A - No - the attackers test to charge home should be seen as just before the defenders test to stand. The defenders test is as a direct result of the attackers closing in. 3) Does reduced visibility distance effect the General's bonus? A - No. (One could argue all day about this - but for simplicity's sake it’s unaffected.) 4) A unit is unformed by friends retreating through it in the compulsory move phase. It remains stationary and so reforms in the movement phase which counts as a full move. Does it still count as unformed for firing purposes in that turn? A - It may not fire - as the unit has spent more than half a turn using movement to reform. It’s best to regard all formation changes and reforming as movement. Thus if a close order unit "moves" over half it may not fire. 5) if a brigade skirmish screen is formed from units of different quality they recall as per their average morale. I assume that this also applies when testing morale. Does it also apply to the number of firing dice? A - Yes - just take the overall average for the skirmish screen and apply that for everything. So if you have 8 regulars and 10 green - the average would be green for morale, recall and firing. 6) A unit disperses as a result of morale which causes a brigade morale check, which causes the brigade to retire. In the following turn do the remaining units still have to test morale for seeing the rout? A - No. A unit will only test for seeing a rout if a unit is still routing within radius at the exact beginning of the morale phase. If the routers dispersed in the compulsory phase then no fellow units would need to test as the routers are not present by the time we reach the morale phase. (The routers have done their damage already!) Hope that helps. DB

Thanks very much for that. Just to clarify with regard to point 2. I understand that the defenders respond to the attackers, and that in the morale phase itself unit tests are simultaneous. But, if two units charge together and one routs/retreats, does the remaining unit take this into account in its test to charge home? Thanks Again, Ken