Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[John Murphy]

TACTICS knights behind LI plus a RULES Q

in today's game I actually, for the first time ever I think, got to
do the little trick where enemy LC failed to break my LI so they
were stuck while my knights came thru and hit them at the halt

however, I ran into a number of similar situations where enemy
knights came up to charge my LI.
while I had the room to stay <120p from the back of the LI rear rank
but >160p from the front of the LI front rank,
I lost my nerve thinking they would somehow blow thru my LI and go
long in pursuit to convert into my knights standing
so I moved my knights right up behind (in retrospect probably even
riskier) and countered the LI back thru

tactics question is...
I blew it didn't I? The idea was that my LI stands so even if it
breaks it only routs 120p and the back rank fails to interpenetrate
so the enemy knights can not pursue thru and convert into my knights.
in fact, this was maybe a golden opportunity to hit the enemy
knights while "stuck to" my routing LI
(RULES question - do bodies in contact with enemy routers get to
counter-charge opponents replacing them in HtH - they can evade but
there is no legal charge thru the routers so can they counter-
charge?)

[joncleaves]

<< (RULES question - do bodies in contact with enemy routers get to
counter-charge opponents replacing them in HtH - they can evade but
there is no legal charge thru the routers so can they counter-
charge?)>>

Yes, if countercharging is normally available to them and they are not impetuous
(6.33, next to last sentence).

Jon





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[John Murphy]

Thanks, Jon, I think I was getting this mulled up with support
shooting etc. I understand now.

--- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, JonCleaves@a... wrote:
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> << (RULES question - do bodies in contact with enemy routers get
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> counter-charge opponents replacing them in HtH - they can evade
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> there is no legal charge thru the routers so can they counter-
> charge?)>>
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> Yes, if countercharging is normally available to them and they are
not impetuous (6.33, next to last sentence).
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> Jon
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