Robert asked:
SITUATION:
This came up at Cold Wars durring the mega battle. Both A & B want to charge X in the same turn. B charges front of X as normal. A wants to charge X in side since front will be taken. The 45 degree mark of X passes through part of unit A but A is more to the front then side.
Possilbe answers:
1) B hits front and A is allowed to wheel and face X move forward to touch and pivots into side.
2) B engages as above but A can not charge at all this turn, but can in its next move since the target is already engaged in the front.
My group plays as in 1) but Don,s plays as 2). We used 2 as we had decided to use the more conservative approach in any differances between styles.
Answer: I'm not going to answer this question as such (I can't do so - we don't have a formal ruling for such things in the games we play, and would have to reach an answer in the same manner as Robert and Don did). What I would like to say that Robert was quite right to pick the more conservative approach. I have a rule of thumb that is if a question arises during play, I don't worry to much about the ins and outs of which answer is the most 'historical' or realistic; instead I pick the one that keeps the game closest to its core game rules (i.e the most 'conservative approach'), as experience has taught that this will almost invariably be the fairest answer in the long run.
Secound question:
An Alex Maced Cav wedge is engaged with a 3+ cav unit to its front from a prior turn but is now charge in the flank or rear by lightly armored skirmishers as determined by the back rank per the rules. However, the wedge rule as in WAB allows wedge to attack any direction with full unit. In HTH the wedge comander wants to use all his attacks against the skirmish unit in his rear to inflict max casualties to win the battle instead of the heavy save knights to the front.
ANSWERS:
1) Wedge fights in any direction in all cases.
2) Wedge must fight models in base to base vs that unit it touches and rest whichever
direction they wish.
3) Models in base to base must fight and rest must attack the original unit hit to the
front.
None of us have had this happen before but we went with option 3 as that is the most conservative and is also how the wedge works in WHFB. This happened twice at CW. I had Don,s Campanions hit in all 4 sides at once and then in the hugh 6 unit HTH in the mega battle.
Answer: Again I agree with the answer given, and for the same reasons. Intrestingly this is also the most logical answer, as the description for the wedge says that the extra attacks represent the wedge breaking tinto the enemy formation. Based on this there should probably be a caeveat (sp?) to the rule that states that the wedge's extra attacks may only used against a enemy unit that the wedge charged.
Jervis