Andy
I assume the "fleeing mob" are your much loved students
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| Author: | Jim Hall [ Wed Nov 05, 2014 1:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Routed Units |
Gentlemen After all these years of playing HPS/JT I still discover new things. I am playing my first Spanish Ulcer game in hot blood, Barrosa. Sadly I allowed a multiple group of Spanish skirmishers to get almost surrounded along with their parent unit. The skirmishers were disorganised but the parent unit routed. As most of the surrounding French were horse it surprised me to find if I moved the whole stack I could move past the cavalry. So even though the formed unit was routed it gave shelter to the skirmishers. |
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| Author: | Andy Moss [ Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Routed Units |
Yes, I can do that in other games too. It's a way of rescuing skirmishers about to suffer a terrible fate. In reality it may represent individuals taking refuge in a fleeing mob. Rather like me when I leave work. |
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| Author: | Christian Hecht [ Wed Nov 05, 2014 5:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Routed Units |
Now I think I misunderstand it, with "past" do you mean through a hex with a cavalry unit? |
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| Author: | Jim Hall [ Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Routed Units |
Moving past but adjacent to a cavalry unit, a move that unless accompanied by a formed unit they would have been unable to execute |
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| Author: | Christian Hecht [ Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Routed Units |
Why would the skirmishers be unable to I thought they are only disordered, aren't the routed units those that I can't move closer to the enemy? |
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| Author: | Jim Hall [ Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Routed Units |
A skirmisher can not move into a hex adjacent to a cavalry unit unless the hex is designated "cover" or is occupied by a formed unit. If the skirmisher/skirmishers have a formed unit as part of the stack they may also move into an adjacent hex, otherwise they cannot make the move. |
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| Author: | Jim Hall [ Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Routed Units |
Andy I assume the "fleeing mob" are your much loved students
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