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There are hardly any non key heavy units. If there are any such as
Sassanid levy then having them not cause rout throughs says 'Put a
line of levy in front of your key troops with no risk. The opponent
can then fight them, pick up fatigues and then fight your key troops
with fatigue applying.
I think doing that without risk will produce armies where non key
heavies become a similar curse to the LI cavalry killers we have now.

Just imagine Harold at Hastings putting the general fyrd in front of
the huscarls.
Roy

In ARMATI@yahoogroups.com, "bright464" <ohutt@...> wrote:
>
> The significance in Rob's comment is not the area of effect but
that
> fact that at the moment a non-key Heavy unit causes panic however a
> key light unit does not.
>
> Since Armati uses key units, the heavy light distinction is less
> useful.
>
> The destruction of a non-key unit by definition does not matter to
> the army's morale so why should the rout of a non-key unit matter
to
> other friendly units. This represents the fact that those troops
> were expected to perform badly and to run off, so when they do it
is
> not a shock.
>
> --- In ARMATI@yahoogroups.com, "rodger1uk" <rodger.w@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In ARMATI@yahoogroups.com, "Robert W Jones" <ltcjones@> wrote:
> >
> > > I would change 14b, so that whenever a key unit breaks, all
units
> > check within 3" regardless of rout path.
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> > This was discussed a while back but the 'area effect' at 3" (for
> > reasons I cannot recall) was not taken up.
> > Rodge
> >
>