Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

Hi guys, here is a situation that came up in a game I played recently

Both of us decided to place a unit in ambush in a Forest on the Flank of the
table. The Forest stradled the centre line. The idea was to pounce on anybody
who came to close. Not so great minds think alike.


Here is a diagram. But you have to rotate it 90 degrees



| <= Centre line
|
ForestForestForest|ForestForestForest
F | F
AA|BB
F | F
ForestForestForest|ForestForestForest
|

I moved first, and therefore triggered his ambush since we were both within 80
paces of each other.
We decided that since we both had an enemy emerge from ambush on our flanks, we
both needed to take a waver test. Naturally we both rolled ones and became
shaken. I like to think they became good neighbors and started passing bottles
around :-)

Did we do that right?


I learned quite a few tactical lessons from this, such as; don't expose the
flank of a unit in ambush to the centre line of the table
Keeping it more that 40 paces from the centre might have been a good idea too.

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[joncleaves]

Hi guys, here is a situation that came up in a game I played recently

Both of us decided to place a unit in ambush in a Forest on the Flank of the
table. The Forest stradled the centre line. The idea was to pounce on anybody
who came to close. Not so great minds think alike.


Here is a diagram. But you have to rotate it 90 degrees



| <= Centre line
|
ForestForestForest|ForestForestForest
F | F
AA|BB
F | F
ForestForestForest|ForestForestForest
|

I moved first, and therefore triggered his ambush since we were both within 80
paces of each other.>>
[
Ok, the 'diagram' came out strange to me, so I am not sure what is going on, and
the particulars matter in this case - but I will do my best.

The first thing is, you closest an ambusher can be to the centerline in woods is
41p. At 40p or less, that body would be visible from the centerline and
ambushers can't be so placed. This means that the closest two opposing ambushes
can be in the same centerline-straddling woods is 82p before they move.

<<We decided that since we both had an enemy emerge from ambush on our flanks,
we both needed to take a waver test. Naturally we both rolled ones and became
shaken. I like to think they became good neighbors and started passing bottles
around >>

Only one side's units can be emerging at once as emreging requires the body to
leave the terrain feature, so there will never be a situation where both sides
take surprise wavers from the same movement as only one body can be moving at
once. an enemy body may be revealed by this move, but as it is not (and can't
be) emerging at that time, it can't cause a surprise waver.

Jon