Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Doug]

> 5.131 (Pg 24) Add at end of text and before the example: "To provide
>support to the flank of a close or loose order foot body, some portion of the
>supporting body must be ON or on the OUTSIDE of a line drawn through
>the side edge
>of the supported body. To provide support to an elephant or LI body, some
>portion of the supporting body must be BETWEEN two lines drawn through the
>supported body's side edges."
>
>This should help with Ewan's point.
>
>Jon

Of course, as written, if a supporting unit located to the rear is
EQUAL or WIDER in width than the unit being supported, it DOES
provide support to both flanks. Which might be reasonable.

Jon, isn't the intention of the rule that two units are necessary to
support two flanks?


On Aug 23, 2004, at 12:57 AM, Doug wrote:

> >  5.131 (Pg 24)  Add at end of text and before the example: "To
> provide
> >support to the flank of a close or loose order foot body, some
> portion of the
> >supporting body must be ON or on the OUTSIDE of a line drawn through
> >the side  edge
> >of the supported body.  To provide support to an elephant or LI
> body,  some
> >portion of the supporting body must be BETWEEN two lines drawn
> through  the
> >supported body's side edges."
> >
> >This should help with Ewan's point.
> >
> >Jon
>
> Of course, as written, if a supporting unit located to the rear is
> EQUAL or WIDER in width than the unit being supported, it DOES
> provide support to both flanks.  Which might be reasonable.
>

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[joncleaves]

Jon, isn't the intention of the rule that two units are necessary to
support two flanks?>.

Yes, very much so.

j