Art De La Guerre

[SteveR]

I looked and did not see this already in the forum

1X
2Y
Z

1 is facing right. 2 is facing down

the other player has the letters

X and Y are facing left

Z is facing up

everyone but Y is the main unit in melee

Y meets the criteria to act in simple support to X as it is not in melee and is aligned as per the first bullet of simple support on page 60

It also is fully conformed as per the first bullet of Melee support on the same page.

So it looks funny but today it came up and we concluded that it could do so.

[KevinD]

I did not think so, but I agree with you that nothing on p60 precludes this. I thought there was a rule that units in melee support can not provide support, but only troops in melee are prohibited from providing support.

[Neep]

I do recall it coming up before, either here or on Facebook . Don't recall a conclusion.

[madaxeman]

Even if Hereve thought this was a bit iffy, it seems like something that is so unlikely to happen, and furthermore, something which would be almost impossible to deliberately engineer that I can't see why it would even be worth the extra ink required to legislate against it.
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[Neep]

The sticking point is the last sentence on the left page 60 "Support units can be either simple support or melee support". Some see that as an exclusive-or.

[madaxeman]

[Ramses II]

I am inclined towards Madaxman’s views. 
Changing the hard “or” to “and” makes more sense, and could be a slip in the translation from the French. Doing this means that the text would say that there is simple support and melee support, which the text then goes on to define. 

Given that a unit can provide simple support to two units, I am inclined to allow a unit to provide melee support to one unit while providing simple support to another - though as Madaxman says, this will be rather difficult to achieve in practice. 

[Neep]

Just musing about this - it might not be as unlikely as it would seem. Here's a scenario: