No, Infantry does not need to square vs. cav in a town, woods, or while defending entrenchments, fencelines, or hedges and is considered to be protected from...
okey, I missed the qualifier 'phasing': i.e. a defending unit in a town against other infantry unit is never a 'phasing unit' because they are the defending...
Right...and one of the tricks is to run light cav into a town dismount and fight as light infantry with the bonus. Remember General Nathan Bedford Forrest...
With good reason. Historically, there is no precedent, and frankly, just because the rules don't disallow something, doesn't mean you should do it. Cavalry...
sounds like nonnapoleonic american stuff again;) ... From: kael2580@... To: napsbattles@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:46 AM Subject:...
In a message dated 4/1/03 11:35:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... will not work ,what bonus ?,any benefit is way off set by the negative's ,your wasting a...
not sure, but i think dismounted cav are -3 for combat in COL- lt cav are usually -1, add -3 for town mod, you get -4; ergo a +1 bonus for dismounting? but you...
Lamont Anderson
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... Richard, Thanks for the interpretation. A complex set of rules can never close every hole that a rules lawyer will always drive through. The...
While everyone is discussing combat in towns (I've found the discussion interesting by the way). I thought I'd raise my pet gripe again: How on earth can...
I agree with you. It really does not make any sense to attack a town with cavalry. I was only looking for a way in which the infantry in the town might be...
In a message dated 4/2/03 9:27:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... -3 col ,-2 LN mod for deployed in town ,then town mod's .fire 2" -4 ,any decent inf bde...
<<<Rule 8.5.3 states that "Any phasing combat unit, unless in square formation, and all cavalry units (phasing or non-phasing) "winning a combat" (all enemy ...
We play as follows: Line [][][][] Column [] [] [] [] Column Mass [][] [][] Line cannot go thru towns, cities, villages. Can go thru hamlets. Same with column...
Actually, that is a semi-truth. One of the books required by the officer corps in the War of Northern Aggfression was Napoleon's little blue book where he...
Sounds fair to me and pretty close to what I play. How do you define a hamlet? As a built up area only large enough to deploy 1 base in? Something else? Matt...
So, have we all agreed the rules don't call for a unit deployed and defending in a built-up area to move out of its positions and occupy the space vacated by a...
yes... I always did ... From: Dodson, Danny M SDPR To: 'napsbattles@yahoogroups.com' Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:20 PM Subject: [napsbattles] Sanity...
In a message dated 4/3/2003 16:29:40 Central Standard Time, ... The rules do call for it, but we are all agreed it is stupid in that case and don't do it and...
Exactly! You can buy two to three turns...just enough time for your heavy Infantry to get there! You take the objective first and you keep the objective. So...
... occupy the ... Yes. I missed the 'phasing' before 'unit' in the rule. The other situations described in the thread are I.M.H.O. only 'holes' of the rules ...
Hi Kael, I like your idea of defining BUA sizes, but find your sizes on the large size ... This would mean that you could deploy over 5000 troops in defence of...
Could anyone point me to an online image of the Foundry set "Wellington and Staff" that has been painted? I'm trying to find out the uniform colours of the...
roly foundry dont have those images on their website anymore ... From: Roly Hermans To: napsbattles@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 8:01 PM ...
"Allowing trrops to effectivly "bypass" something the size of La Haye Saint farm complex (holds 1 base) might work for me, although I prefer to keep it simple...
Yes, I'm aware of the images on the Foundry website. However, the image they use for this particular pack shows unpainted figures. I was just hoping someone...
Roly I will have a look through my catalogues as foundry do have a photo with them painted. If I can find it I wll email it to you. I looked it out for my...
Thanks, I'd appreciate that, if you can. ... photo with them painted. If I can find it I wll email it to you. I looked it out for my son when he painted the...
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