Not really? You can move twice up to a couple of tiles NE of the southern woods and still spend a third action ready charging. Assuming they try to put any units south of the village, you can threaten them quite easily using a ready charge. I can show you once the outline for my movement is finished.
The cavalry in my plan arent ready charging, cause moving into the woods takes too much movement. I dont really want to leave the cavalry out of the woods cause then theyll get shot by artillery.
And then the next turn, they have 3 actions to charge, attack, attack which restrtics the enemy from moving into the open or punishes them if they do during turn 2 or they can still move, charge, attack/disenage against units in the village.
I dont think a ready charge is really needed in the east unless you want to threathen for their turn 2.
So, neither of us know exactly where they would be forming the line, but I think it's plausible they will put units SE of the village. The village itself would be a good artillery position since it shoot things out of the woods. Meaning we can move, charge, melee; the exact number of actions as your charge plan. Charging from the woods to being adjacent to the village would be 4 movement in either way. Also, the countercharge from the eastern woods can be intercepted by eastern cavalry decently easily, they don't have a lot of reach from their woods.
I disagree at least for my plan that its plausible for them to put units so of village. That renders them incredibly vulnerable to a move, charge, attack from infantry and also cavalry. Having a slightly more forward position for the artillery is not worth it making the infantry way weaker to a charge, considering they know that we really want to charge them.
Ok. The woods are still an obstacle, hindering two of your units from charging the centre. Honestly, it would be very helpful if you also drew where you expect the enemy to put their main position, so we check each other's assumptions.
The woods arent an obstacle, they are an ideal position to put our infantry in before charging with them after or shoot the units in the villages with our superior shooting in preparation for a charge.
I can draw my possible position for the enemy, itll take a bit tho
This will somewhat depend on the enemy positioning, but this plan uses our cavalry to push aggressivly forward and readies a charge, with the infantry moving into wood cover. Since I expect the enemy to set up the artillery in the village centre to overwatch our position, they would logically have to form infantry around it to protect against our cavalry aggression. Based on this, the enemy would end up with infantry units that are about 4 turns away from the woods, meaing we can charge from our covered position. With 2 cavalry units on each flank, we are also quite able to respond to threats.
Hmm, so you would eat an artillery shot with the cavalry positioned in the open there?
Also did you forgot that we need an additional point of movement for the attack on the charge? In your example only two infantry and the wolf guard can charge one unit, which is a human unit in your example so not a good target. These charging units would then be incredibly exposed to a counterattack. In your outlined example i would not charge that turn and likely have to move-brace the infantry closer.
Im also not sure why you think they will deploy their artillery so far forward. Village tiles dont block firing im pretty sure and the additional range they get here isnt worth it unless they want to shoot into woods. If they position themselves a village tile back they can still cover the open field but can have their defending infantry stay on village tiles to recieve the charge.
TBH im really confused about the cavalry position in the east there in general, if the enemy cavalry is in the east, wont they just charge it?
Hmm, and looking at it, if the enemy moves their units into your proposed formation than all of the infantry in my plan could move, charge, attack except there probably arent enough tiles adjecent to the enemy haha. So my plan would definitely prevent their plan if you are correct in your assuption.
But theyll definitely change it if they see the movement in my plan.
@Photomajig do we deploy one after another or at the same time?
