Ah, sorry, I misunderstood what you meant. And with the 16th retreating, your idea is that the 109th does not have enough movement to both move into the forest and deal meaningful damage? And if they move into the forest, the halflings can hit them three times on our turn? Hmm, the idea might work better than I thought, I have to admit that. But it still does depend on Routing the Nymphs on our next turn, right? Which had about 50% odds, right?
What if the Nymphs move SW to the hill? Do they not avoid your ambush then, while being in position to charge and attack the 16th?
Well, I try not to assume but to plan in such a way that we do not lose to either possibility. This is why I want to keep the flank secure until we actually have eyes on all his cavalry. And I am also of the opinion that if he does exclusively use cavalry defensively, yours and RRs aggressive attacking ideas are more likely to fail since you have to somehow deal with his cavalry while attacking.
Normally, the way to attack when threatened by enemy cavalry is to Move and Brace, but that would make you slower and thus take more damage from his artillery. I have yet to see a convincing offensive plan that screens the attacking units from his cavalry while not getting shot to pieces by his artillery on the approach. Could you outline how exactly you imagine the Rotholz attack proceeding?
Still, I would caution against trusting our intel on Von Trotha's personality too much. It might be wrong or incomplete, he already surprised us by aggressively charging our cavalry that got close to thr forest with his Hobs. His Nymph movements are also relatively aggressive.
For all we know, Von Trotha has a hobgoblin servant named Daka Rurand feeding him aggressive attacking ideas.
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