At the price of leaving the direction vulnerable to being charged, due the 2 AP. Also, the Cuirassiers won't stay in place for 5 turns until you shot them. Also, this would deplete the combat potential of them somewhat, but do very little to actually buildup stress. I'm sceptical of the enemy engaging in needling there, though I guess we will see.
Brace is just 1 AP though, and units have 3 AP by default. So couldn't you do a Fire Action and then Brace?
So I just noticed a plot hole. Clotaire the 8th doesn't take the throne until 1714, according to the lore post. So either it's Clotaire VII, who comes back long enough to live five more years - or the contemporary heir and future king Dagobert III.
Sorry, what I meant was you couldn't countercharge or shoot from the woods, thus allowing charges on the 52nd. It would cost your ability to deter charges from the east for fairly limited gain. I would consider it somewhat unlikely, though I can see about counterplay.
Yeah, I was going to suggest something similar. Swing the majority of our troops to the southeast, forcing the enemy nymphs to leave the safety of their woods if they want to contribute to this battle. We are also going to delete one of their cavalry units, which should open up flanking opportunities that the infantry may be able to exploit.
I am thinking more along the line of pinning their infantry while our cavalry slips behind them, but yeah. The key to either strategy is to put more units into the south, while our cavalry is put in a position to pounce.
We have the whole rest of the army on the way while it's the enemy who needs to defeat us before the reinforcements arrive. Not that the reinforcements will arrive in time to be relevant, but ultimately it's we who "win" if things drag out into a stalemate, which means Ivernia needs to attack us. Granted, they might be able to provoke us to advance with their larger quantity of artillery, but still.
I want to keep the pressure up for one main reason: The likely routing of one of their cavalry units and the subsequent ability of us to fall into their flank. If we don't put pressure on them to stay in place, they would simply be able to reorganize their lines and avoid their mistake. Also, we need to use to cavalry to soften their line, even if it takes casulties to do so. We just don't have the artillery for winning a long-term battle.
Your artillery on the map is short one tile in some areas, so going on the bottom won't avoid medium range artillery, you'll be in medium range of one you placed on the map.
Yeah. That is a potential risk I am willing to take for the sake of this redeploying more units to the south, since we are going to have to trigger the artillery attack sooner or later anyways. Might as well rob them of the ambush advantage before we actually charge.
Who is protecting our artillery from a suicidal charge here? Or is that a risk you are taking on purpose?Alright, time to compile a bunch of disconnected ideas into a draft plan. I'm going to preemptively apologize for being slightly to interpret, this one is going to involve a number of units moving into a prior position. I will see about making this potentially a bit clearer.
[] Plan Lunge and Cover
-[] Deployment image
-[] Roy. Elv. Sie. Art.: Set Up, Fire at 17th Elv. Hsr [mid. range, 1d100]
-[] 1st Elv. Cuir.: Ready Charge *2 (IF enemy unit moves), Ready Move towards starting position
-[] 2nd Elv. Cuir. Charge 52nd Hum, 2* Move (4*E to starting position)
-[] 3rd Elv. Cuir.: 3*Charge [SE, 4*E,NE]
-[] 4th Elv. Cuir.: 2*Charge (4*E, NE,E], Melee
-[] 1st Hob Musk.: Ready Charge (Only attack enemy cavalry charging towards you) *2, Melee
-[] 2nd Hob Musk.: 2* Move [2*E, SE], Brace
-[] 3rd Hob Musk.: 2*Move [SW,SE| Facing NE], Brace
-[] 4th Hob. Musk.: 2* Move [SE, E, SE| Facing NE], Brace
-[] Wolf Guard: 2* Move [SE, 2*E| Facing NE], Brace
-[] 7th Elv. Musk.: Ready Move [E], Ready Shoot [mid range]
-[] 10th Elv. Musk.: 2*Move [SE,E| Facing NE], Brace
-[] HQ: 3* Move [E]
In short, this plans routs the vulnerable 17th via 2 rear charges and 1 melee attack, softens the 52nd with a simple infantry attack as a measured risk and reshuffles our units to be more positioned in the south. This should allow us to attack from a vector the nymphs can't control, giving us the ability to pin the infantry from the south in place as our cuirassiers fall into the flank. Some artillery damage is possible based on positioning, but this still has momentum on our side.
The 1st hobs, via a ready charge. They will block any effort to move into the artillery, a unit on the road there isn't needed.
Is it wise to charge a unit that's braced like this? Also, even if we do want to do this, don't you mean W, not E if you want them to return to their starting position?
I think with the turn-based system, it would anyway maybe be better if we players don't see if an enemy is braced or not. Otherwise, why would we ever charge a Braced Unit?
I think being able to know Braced seems too powerful while actually still balanced as it apply to both side. Also as the mechanic are abstracting single unit formation, I see Braced at some level as a kind of melee defense optimal formation and can be observed differently than general purpose formation. Though I don't know the historicity or tactical existence of such thing.
The link says I don't have access, anyone else has the same problem?
Oh, sorry. I'll take a look, maybe I screwed something up there.
