Melee overlap from troops protecting guns?
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:39 pm
Just played an ECW game in which a unit of New Model determined horse charged a unit of Cornish pike and shot, which was in side-to-side contact with a 2-base unit of Royalist medium guns, which in turn were being defended by Commanded Shot.
C/S--C/S
...........]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
GUN-GUN]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
........... .........D/Hs-D/Hs
.......... ..........D/Hs-D/Hs
In the melee phase, the cavalry expanded, which took it into corner-to-corner contact with the guns, being defended by Commanded Shot (I've included a subsequent expansion on the right, just to make the drawing easier), thus:-
C/S--C/S
...........]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
GUN-GUN]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
.............D/Hs-D/Hs-D/Hs-D/Hs
Despite a combined playing time of about 20 years, none of the 10 people who looked at this had ever seen it happen before. Three questions:-
1) Are the Commanded Shot allowed to "step forward" and count as overlap in the full melee in the second picture? We thought "yes" (eventually).
2) Should the fact that the Commanded Shot was Poor have had any bearing on the matter (other than re-rolling any 6s)? We thought "no".
3) What would happen to the guns if the Dt Horse won the melee?
C/S--C/S
...........]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
GUN-GUN]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
........... .........D/Hs-D/Hs
.......... ..........D/Hs-D/Hs
In the melee phase, the cavalry expanded, which took it into corner-to-corner contact with the guns, being defended by Commanded Shot (I've included a subsequent expansion on the right, just to make the drawing easier), thus:-
C/S--C/S
...........]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
GUN-GUN]-SHOT-PIKE-SHOT
.............D/Hs-D/Hs-D/Hs-D/Hs
Despite a combined playing time of about 20 years, none of the 10 people who looked at this had ever seen it happen before. Three questions:-
1) Are the Commanded Shot allowed to "step forward" and count as overlap in the full melee in the second picture? We thought "yes" (eventually).
2) Should the fact that the Commanded Shot was Poor have had any bearing on the matter (other than re-rolling any 6s)? We thought "no".
3) What would happen to the guns if the Dt Horse won the melee?