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This is the Last in a 3 part series of the WRG Ancient Rules. These questions concern formations.
1. Q: What morale factors does a unit off the board consider?
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A: Only those personal to itself and arms: i.e. retiring,
routing bowarmed, shieldless, routs seen and no other
friends.
2. Q: A routed friend moves toward a unit it must attempt to interpenetrate. May the friend move to avoid the interpenetration? May a friendly general?
- A: We allow this if possible. A general can
always attempt to get clear.
3. Q: What does "will always attempt to interpenetrate'' mean to routing troops?
- A: They will try to burst through, succeeding if
the troops they are meeting are regular but taking
irregulars with them.
4. Q: A Unit was advancing last turn. May it count itself advancing if it must test reaction immediately at the start of this turn?
- A: Yes.
5. Q: A unit sees a hostile unit routing during the movement portion of a turn. At the end of the turn it must test reaction. May it count routing foe?
- A: Only if still withing 150.
6. Q: The figure shows three situations: a single unit
is faced with one, two and three opponents. Please
number the figures on the single unit, in the order they
would be removed, what that unit is pushed back or
broken?
7. Q: A LC unit moves 1/4 period over a hill. A hostile MC unit moves 1/4 period toward the hill. The two units see each other for the first time. The MC unit attacks. The LC unit evades. Is the LC unit's evade distance reduced by the 1/4 period?
- A: Yes, just as is the MC charge.
8. Q: The MC unit (above) catches the LC unit and is in contact at the end of the period. It fails to break the LC unit. Does the LC unit continue to evade the following turn?
- A: No. It turns to fight back disordered.
9. Q: Does a routing or retiring unit pay normal terrain costs?
- A: Yes.
10. Q: A C class unit has a D class sub-unit. Does the entire unit test as D class after the first test?
- A: Sub-units must be same class as parent
units.
11. Q: In order to count as carrying shields to avoid the morale penalty, must the figure only own a shield, or be actually using it at the time of the check.
- A: Own it for morale but must be using it to
avoid melee or missle vulnerability.
12. Q: For a change of face executed by turning figures in place, may figures turn by other than 90 degrees or 180 degrees (e.g. 45 degrees or 120 degrees).
- A: No.
13. Q: Are the listed formations meant to exclude all others or only to provide typical examples.
- A: They are intended to be exclusive.
14. Q: Are these two formations legal?
- A: They are both illegal.
15. Q: May a unit turn its figures 45 degrees as shown?
- A: No.
16. Q: Which armies are allowed the use of wedges exclusively?
- A: Basilian Byzantines, SHC (but its not worth
it!); Early Frank: Ml; Late Roman: Ml,LMI; Macedonian:
HC, LC; Thessalian: LC; Skythian: LC.
17. Q: On page 13 it says that all figures of a unit must remain in base to base contact at all times. Does this mean that a routing unit will not split into two segments to go around units and/or objects?
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A: We would let it, but it must join up again as soon
as possible.
18. Q: Can sub-units be ordered to support other subunits of the same body?
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A: No. A unit can only have one semi-independent
sub-unit. If it helps, think of it as a detachment, not a
part.
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