... Okay, maybe I'm missing something here, but why would artillery want to move into contact with a stronghold in the first place? Under what circumstances...
Steve Kerry
steve_kerry_uk@...
Oct 1, 2001 2:33 pm
3598
To provide an overlap. JDE ... From: Steve Kerry [mailto:steve_kerry_uk@...] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:34 PM To: hottrevision@yahoogroups.com ...
Ewins, James
james.ewins@...
Oct 1, 2001 2:40 pm
3599
... Or to capture it by beating it in close combat. Standing off and shooting at a stronghold will not capture it. Alan Saunders alan.catherine@... ...
Alan Saunders
alan.catherine@...
Oct 1, 2001 3:20 pm
3600
... Indeed. And remember also that being in contact does not necessarily represent being in hand-to-hand combat....
Richard Bodley Scott
Richard@...
Oct 1, 2001 8:10 pm
3601
I do not follow the point that corner to corner contacts are so infrequent. Anytime an element gives an overlap to a friend who loses and recoils or worse,...
beattie@...
Oct 2, 2001 12:03 pm
3602
It is intended to allow pivoting even when the enemy is not in combat - why should that make any difference? It is thus a conscious difference from DBA. ...
Richard Bodley Scott
Richard@...
Oct 2, 2001 7:17 pm
3603
... What the discussion was about was not "normal" corner-to-corner contacts - i.e. front L to front L or front R to front R - but weird corner-to-corner...
Richard Bodley Scott
Richard@...
Oct 2, 2001 7:21 pm
3604
New Posting: 1) TACTICAL MOVE DISTANCES "Movement is not measured when an element starting its move in an overlap position pivots into front edge contact with...
Richard Bodley Scott
Richard@...
Oct 3, 2001 11:06 am
3605
Ok, now I see the points. The inability of an element to "close the door" on the flank of an enemey element when that enemy is not in combat contact to its...
beattie@...
Oct 3, 2001 3:52 pm
3606
OK. I'll buy that. ... but a connected issue is ... me ... HOTT ... is ... corner ... rules ... describes ... corner ... contact ... its ... combat. ... list ...
Richard Bodley Scott
Richard@...
Oct 3, 2001 6:59 pm
3607
New Posting: 1) TACTICAL MOVES ENDING IN CONTACT WITH ENEMY "Artillery cannot move to contact enemy except a stronghold. Other troops can only move into...
Richard Bodley Scott
Richard@...
Oct 7, 2001 12:49 pm
3608
... I suggest you swap this around to read: Front corner in contact with that enemy element's front corner and front edge in at least partial contact with an...
Luke Ueda-Sarson
fingon@...
Oct 8, 2001 1:34 am
3609
... conform if ... edge. ... element's ... front ... front ... is. You may be right. I will think about it. ... edge. ... corner ... contact to ... with an ......
Richard Bodley Scott
Richard@...
Oct 8, 2001 6:30 pm
3610
To keep consistency and not require remembering more differences between DBA 2 and HOTT 2, I vote to keep the text as is below. Corner overlap only with...
beattie@...
Oct 15, 2001 5:09 pm
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I'm not necessarily suggesting a rule but a discussion came up in the DBA group that bears consideration with HOTT, too. Artillery (and in DBA, a War...
beattie@...
Oct 15, 2001 5:23 pm
3612
... I was thinking on the ZOC the other week and wonder if it is also a response to the fact that the game uses the artificial condition of alternate moves....
... You could say that short-range artillery (up to 200p) fire is more dangerous than lng-range shooting and prompt potential targets to move more cautiously. ...
... I'm not at all sure that we need to go even that far in rationalizing it. let's see, what is the actual task at hand here: walk across the front of...
But, where is the threat? The artillery fired in its bound, now I move, I know they are reloading so I move across their front. They can neither come after...
... Bob Purely an issue of game vs simulation. I like to imagine this is a simulation of what might happen with 1:1 scale self-motivated troops. Your...
... the ... make ... in ... bound, ... did ... I will address this issue when I get time. (Hooked on Everquest at present). The intention of the rules writers...
Hello In various spots in the rules, there is what I feel is a somewhat peculiar use of the word "If". Namely it is used in such phrases as "If shooters, ...
This is just a guess: it could be a leftover from writing IF--THEN statements in various programming languages. It almost seems a natural carry-over to...
Greetings! KH.Ranitzsch wrote: In various spots in the rules, there is what I feel is a somewhat peculiar use of the word "If". Namely it is used in such...
... Oh God, help me to leave that one alone please. Cheers, Thomo the Lost http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thomo_the_lost/ or watch the new Thomo's...
I will look at these. Don't hold your breath though. ... peculiar ... shooters, ... it every ... in the ... attempting to save ... shouldn't this ... his/her ...
New Posting: 1) TACTICAL MOVES ENDING IN CONTACT WITH ENEMY "Artillery cannot move if that move would end in any contact with enemy other than a stronghold....
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