So our group had three games of La Salle last night. One Austrians v French, one Russian (attacking for once!) v French, and my game Prussians v guess who, yup French.
France had a pretty good night last night.
In my game we both decided to put me outta my misery, by turn 8. Im on the attack (two adds by the way), still not accrost the river and his Dragoons arrived. Keven offered some ideas on set up, on BIG mistake was me not selecting a ford. But that hill seemed like just the think for arty fire. But the fools on the hill were swept away with arty counterbattery.
Even with a ford, the crossing looks very tricky.
Does everyone treat the bridge on the map as only able to cross in march? or do you allow it to be forded at a redused move rate in attack column?
The River crossing board
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Posted 5 months ago #
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ok another thought, what if as the attacker you select a town on the other side of the dridge rather than another ford in the crossing scenario? anyone tried that?
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Just curious Mfarl, what do you have in mind by selecting a town on the other side of the bridge? I guess I don't see what the advantage would be to the attacker.
As to your original question, I share your puzzlement re: the lack of detailed information on the effects of terrain in the game. I think you are on the right track regarding movement across the bridge being a road move in column across the bridge, but using reduced movement in any other formation (representing the troops being sent over piecemeal and having to spend time forming up on the far side of the bridge). If memory serves, that was how Napoleon's Battles handled it.
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As attacker I would place a bridge or ford on the river near my deployment zone (i.e. on the top left on the map). I would put the objective opposite (ie bottom left of the map). Then rush my troops over the river in column, and use the other bridge if the defender does not defend it. You therefore can get across and head straight for the objective and force a battle in the fair open bit of the table.
Of course as defender, if the attacker puts down a bridge, I would place a big bad piece of terrain on my side of that bridge to slow him down!
But to be honest I have never played that table - the couple of times it came up we re-diced cos I have had too many bad river crossing games for one lifetime!
Cam
Posted 5 months ago # -
The issue of how you cross a bridge has come up before:
http://www.sammustafa.com/honour/forum/topic/bridges-1#post-4920
Sam's answer was you can only cross a bridge in a March column. So you cannot charge across a bridge (but you can charge across a ford since it can be 2BW wide).
So the attacker really does have to add a bridge or ford for their choice - otherwise the defender can block the bridge and the only way you can cross is to shoot the blocking unit(s) out of the way.
Cam
Posted 5 months ago # -
Surely one could also just designate the river as shallow and rocky, and thus just a big, multi-BW-deep patch of rough terrain.
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