Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Don Coon]

Donald Coon wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Jons new KNOWN criteria only apply to enemy in HTH with your
> friendlies. As you draw up, your screening troops still make the enemy
> unknown and hence your close order slugs can march on up. Now once
> either you or the your oppenent make contact they become known and
> marching ceases at 240p, and approaches must begin. This is not a big
> hinderance as usually you do not bring close order up much closer than
> that, so as to allow route/retreat/recoil paths. What his new line in
> 1.261 DOES do, is allow your second wave to make formation changes in
> preparation for upcoming battle, something march moves do not allow, and
> the old KNOWN rules also prevented.

My first sentance is no longer correct. Jon has changed it to in sight
now, rather than HTH. However the impact of this is minimal. Your
second wave will just have to stop marching at 240p (even if screened).
This is not a cramping effect for the reasons I cited above. In fact I
like his change even better.

Don

[joncleaves]

Don: aha, you caught it.

Note that I have heard that long ago some guys played known = visible and
marched guys right up behind screeners and charged, but it has not been this
way in NASAMW since 1988 (when I started playing). We looked at it, but that
would have been a huge unplaytested change and counter to our philosophy of
the march rule in any case.

Glad you like it.
Jon