Art De La Guerre

[AlanCutner]

The rules state a player dices for flank march arrival in each movement phase. Is this both their own and their opponents movement phases? Its not clear.

[Hazelbark]

It is during the flank march players turn.

[Commodore]

And it is the first die to roll at the mouvemet phase beginning
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[Ramses II]

As Commodore says, at the beginning of your own movement phase you should make the die roll for your corps that is Flank marching.

Note,
You can also hide a small corps in ambush under certain circumstances. It is perfectly legal (and even recommended) to pretend this is 'flank marching' by throwing it's dice first and not using any pips (until you throw a "5" or "6" of course). Done correctly, this can spring a nasty surprise.

Also remember that your army break point is determined by those units that are visible on-table, so exclude anything that is flank marching or in ambush. It is perfectly legal to send half of your 24 point army on a flank march, but until it arrives on-table your army breaks at 13 points not 25.

[AlanCutner]

Thanks for the replies. It is as I thought. But it came up in a game yesterday, and as the rules are written I couldn't contradict how my opponent read the rules - as dicing in every movement phase regardless of which player turn.

Could this be added to the official clarifications?

[madaxeman]

I'm not sure anyone really wants to go down the Barkerese rabbit hole on this one...

It's a command roll. You do it in your own turn. As has been the case for all wargame rules since time immemorial.

Otherwise we are leaning into "there are no rules saying you cant use weighted dice" territory
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[AlanCutner]

The rule is "At the beginning of each movement phase......". It does not refer to it as or replacing the command roll. Nowhere is there anything stated to limit which movement phase. I think an umpire would struggle to argue against dicing on every movement phase, ie own and opponents.

So its not a clarification on something thats not written or is as blindingly obvious as 'weighted dice', but actually requires further wording to make clear its limited to the players own movement phase only.

[Dickstick]

Since when do you dice for any command in your opponents turn!?!
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[AlanCutner]

But my point is that the rules don't describe it as the command dice roll. Its a dice roll for a flank march. And as written that dice roll could be in both players turns.

[madaxeman]

[AlanCutner]

Perfect!