Art De La Guerre

Thank you all for your help with this. Great to get another rule clear in my head.

Alan

While the second bullet on page 36 allows one to charge home on the MTE without qualification, the errata appears to forbid any preliminaries that decreases the alignment.

Thank you, that is very h ...

How far does an enemy's zone of control limit the angle at which you can charge?

Knight A is in the zone of control of light horse X and of nobody else. He would like to charge bowman Y, a bit to ...

Thank you both - that is good and clear.

Alan

Pages 18 (Impact) and 19 (Javelin).

An impact foot unit charges a light horse unit armed with javelins. Because the infantry charged horse they do not get an impact bonus in this melee.

Do th ...

Thank you all for good and interesting points made.

It is reassuring to see that nobody has found any rules specific to internal allies - I worried that I might have missed them.

In their absenc ...

Are internal allies treated exactly like external allies?

Looking at the Germans (list 91).

1. Tencteri are allowed 0-2 light cavalry. If internal allies are treated just like external allies, ...

Carolingian Frankish (List 153) have it twice

Swabian (HC or Heavy swordmen)
and
Mounted archers with lance
(MC impact or bowmen)

Thank you. This is interesting. "Row" in this co ...

See the 3rd bullet on p 21.

Thank you. Umpteen years and I'd never spotted that.

I don't remember ever encountering cav doing this. Is it in practice limited to a few lists?

Alan

Same Box

#93 Visigoth
Nobles Mounted or on foot
These may freely dismount.

#93 Vandals
Nobles Mounted or on foot
These may freely dismount.

#90
Ancient Spanish.
Spanish Horsemen
Despit ...

Hazelbark's point about the wording changing from v 3 would explain why I have experienced this played in different ways. Perhaps some have adjusted to the letter of the new ed, while others stick to ...

Neep and Madaxeman - are you saying that a unit only cares about what's within 4 UD of it at the instant it starts to move (and then, of course, during its move)? So that it would not matter if an am ...

Hazelbark, are you saying that a second (or march) move is prohibited in all these cases?

"all these cases" is an encompassing term.

A unit that starts outside of tactical and move ...

Really good of you to reply so quickly.

Hope I am right in taking from all the replies that the rules treat a disappearing ambush marker and an evading enemy identically?

Hazelbark, by "n ...

A. Fake Ambushes

My Red command is the first to move. For its first pip a bunch of light infantry swarm towards an ambush marker and find that it is fake.

Hope I am right in thinking that the ...