Art De La Guerre

[Neep]

"Once we’ve established that an evade is NOT blocked we move on to the evade move rules. An evading unit encountering slowing terrain at any point along its evade path (regardless of how close that slowing terrain is) adjusts its move distance accordingly."

But the evade move rules do not actually say anything about slowing terrain.

Sometimes it's beneficial to submerge into terrain that slows the attacker more than you. Sometimes it's better to wheel and move out of the attacker's path. But what's best is to know beforehand how the ref will rule.

[Zoltan]

[vexillia]

Thanks for that. It helps. Two points:

[1] It's now clear if a trifle convoluted. It's no surprise people get confused. Rules are clear. Presentation not so much.
[2] As far as the evade is concerned, I note that an obstacle on p48 is different from that defined on p67. Doesn't help.

One further question though as I'm confused. P48 says:

[Hazelbark]

p67 obstacles refer clearly to the purchased quasi-fortification.


This topic has been answered.

[Neep]

Z, my point is not that deep. Simply noting that the text on pages 48-9 does not say you must enter terrain, nor that you must try to avoid it, nor that you can pick and choose.
But it does say you cannot contact the enemy camp and ignores the friendly camp, while both seem completely covered by page 66 bullet 3. It does add several rules about the table edge.

Now it does only apply avoidance to "obstacles". And if you accept that obstacles are any and only the 3 categories listed at the top of page 48 (including the obvious inclusion of Cv(light chariots) in Difficult), then you have an answer. But AdlG lists are not always exclusive, and the immediate reference to attempting to avoid rough and difficult is confusing.
So whatever the answer, it's clearly a legit Frequently Asked Question.

[Neep]

[vexillia]

[Neep]

Oops, sorry Martin, didn't realize it originated with Zoltan.

[Zoltan]