Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

Dear Jon,
1.
can you explain why charges are cancelled by "non impetious foot
cannot join in a charge with an enemy with mounted friends"

my battle today saw me advance with a unit HC jls sh and a unit of LI
jls sh, against a 5 element front line of LC B the HC got shot and
charged on a frontage of one element, on the other end of the line my
2 element width LI had to stand shoot jls at the LC line and watch
the cav go in and get butchered. I understand the rule, but what is
the rationale for it?.
Of course the LI could charge next bound but by then it was too late.

2. CinC with 2E HC L charge enemy CinC 2E HC L, push back enemy and
expand. Next bound the expanded element is charged by LI, I do more
casualties to the enemy HC but equal number to the LI. My opponent
says I cannot break off my CinC because I have caused more casualties
than I recieved. Surely I can break off? is this correct?




regards Kingo

[joncleaves]

In a message dated 7/3/2004 14:44:40 Central Daylight Time,
tors1@... writes:

Dear Jon,
1.
can you explain why charges are cancelled by "non impetious foot
cannot join in a charge with an enemy with mounted friends">>
Ancient and medieval armies did not possess a great deal of ability to
coordinate independent joint attacks. Unless driven to charge or in a frenzy,
foot troops typical awaited the result of a mounted charge before rushing in.
Also, to the foot troop, it was the job of their own mounted to take on enemy
mounted.


2. CinC with 2E HC L charge enemy CinC 2E HC L, push back enemy and
expand. Next bound the expanded element is charged by LI,>>

Which could only happen if the HC was disordered.....

I do more
casualties to the enemy HC but equal number to the LI. My opponent
says I cannot break off my CinC because I have caused more casualties
than I recieved.>>
That is correct.

Jon


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[joncleaves]

In a message dated 7/4/2004 18:44:43 Central Daylight Time,
tors1@... writes:

Following on from this does it follow that if the infantry and cavalry were
Ireg A that the infantry still could not have charged?.



Impetuous infantry that charge with mounted are not cancelled.

Jon


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It seems to defeat the whole spirit of the rules that 2 units in the same
command given the same attack order cannot attack at the first opportunity
to do so. They had enough time to be prompted too if that had been
nessesary, but in this case it was their first time in charge reach of the
enemy.

Following on from this does it follow that if the infantry and cavalry were
Ireg A that the infantry still could not have charged?.

Kingo



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Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: [WarriorRules] Not happy Jon!!!


> In a message dated 7/3/2004 14:44:40 Central Daylight Time,
> tors1@... writes:
>
> Dear Jon,
> 1.
> can you explain why charges are cancelled by "non impetious foot
> cannot join in a charge with an enemy with mounted friends">>
> Ancient and medieval armies did not possess a great deal of ability to
> coordinate independent joint attacks. Unless driven to charge or in a
frenzy,
> foot troops typical awaited the result of a mounted charge before rushing
in.
> Also, to the foot troop, it was the job of their own mounted to take on
enemy
> mounted.
>
>
> 2. CinC with 2E HC L charge enemy CinC 2E HC L, push back enemy and
> expand. Next bound the expanded element is charged by LI,>>
>
> Which could only happen if the HC was disordered.....
>
> I do more
> casualties to the enemy HC but equal number to the LI. My opponent
> says I cannot break off my CinC because I have caused more casualties
> than I recieved.>>
> That is correct.
>
> Jon
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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