Art De La Guerre

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Hi All.....not new to gaming (DBA veteran), but very new to ADLG.

Question re heavy cavalry & armour.....p15 Heavy Cavalry: "automatically has the armour ability." So, every instance when in melee, it adds +1 to the die roll if it loses, because of its intrinsic armour?

Eg Heavy cavalry charge Heavy spearmen. HC roll 2, Heavy Spearmen roll 2
HC 0 + 2 (for their die roll) = 2
HS 1 + 2 (for their die roll) = 3

So HS win by 1 & the HC would lose 1 cohesion

BUT, because the HC always have armour, they add 1 to their die roll & the result is a tie.

Is this the correct interpretation?
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[kevinj]

That's partly right. You only get the benefit of the +1 for armour if you have better armour than your opponent and if it isn't cancelled by an ability, e.g:

Other Heavy Cavalry will also have armour so neither of you benefit.
Heavy Knights have heavy armour so they get the +1 if you win but you don't if they do.
Elephants cancel armour so you don't get the benefit if you lose to them.

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[borkil63]

Excuse me for bad english, but no, you forget something. I dont know how to explain, but HS vs CV get 4. 2 for the dice, 1 for HS, and 1 extra point for the impact of spear vs HC.
And HC get 0 vs HC more 2 for the dice . So HC lose for 2 pts, save 1 with thé armour. At the end of fight, HC lose 1 point of cohésion.

[Neep]

Yes spear and pike get a first round "bonus" of +1 when charged on their front rank by mounted other than Elephants.

HI spear can be HI spear armor depending upon list.

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