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1. Basilhare
   Member

   We are gearing up for our first game tomorrow...I went thru a few turns tonight solo in preparation....I had two quick questions:

   (1) Fire Zones for Units Deployed in towns: Units deployed in towns fire off of a single side as mentioned in the town rules...this means that there is a definite blind zone off of each corner where an enemy can not be hit, correct? ie., deployed units do not enjoy 360 deg field of fire...

   (2) Pg. 37: Reaction: Fall Back: A lone, unsupported unlimbered Horse artillery battery is attacked and contacted by an infantry unit. The HA unit wants to fall back. It rolls a disc test and fails, but re-rolls and passes (first paragraph on unlimbered HA, Pg. 37). It then must re-roll as per the second paragraph (Unlimbered artillery) because it does not have refuge. May it (again) re-roll a failed attempt because it is HA, as per the first paragraph??? Ie., roll-fail-re-roll-pass-roll-fail-re-roll-pass...

   Thanks...faron

   (Looking forward to our first game tomorrow...after initially thinking that the first game may be a "toughy" due to the detail/complexity, I found my solo game tonight went quite well...I spent some extra time this week reading & re-reading the rules, which really helped...they seem to flow and work quite well, with few grey areas...kudos...)

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Sam Mustafa
   Le Grand Fromage

   1. They fire out just the four sides, but... Since the infantry fire zone is only 4BW, and since you only need a tiny bit of a target unit to make him "Partial" and thus shootable, you should be able to hit just about everybody, unless some extremely sneaky opponent manages to squeeze a narrow march column perfectly aligned with the corner. We playtested this several times and found that it was very hard to make use of the blind spot, so we decided not to write rules for it.

   2. There's a typo in the first heading - which you can find corrected in the Errata. The first header should read LIMBERED HORSE ARTILLERY. (not "Unlimbered.")

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. Basilhare
   Member

   Thanks, Sam...I'll re-read the errata...must have missed that change on the HA

   As to the town squares, maybe Im missing something...there appears to be quite a large, 90 degree dead zone of each corner of the town square...it obviously gets larger as the right angle increases distance...in my playtest last night, an attack column at max range (BW=2" w/ my mounting) say at 7"-8" (4BW's) was clearly in a huge dead zone...

   I guess what you are saying is as the target closes in to attack the town square, there wont be a dead zone because the enemy will eventually (at least partially) pop into one side or the other's fire zone....?

   Posted 2 years ago #

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