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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7662371" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>These are very interesting, and I actually have a mass combat lined up in my campaign in the coming weeks, so I'll get a chance to try these out.</p><p></p><p>There's only one thing in the rules that I think I might add in, which is the idea of units coming in from the side or behind to flank a unit currently locked in battle with an ally. I'm not sure exactly what that would garner the flanking unit (and the primary unit if anything), but I think there should be something gained for creating this kind of pincher movement. Maybe it could be as simple as that the flanking unit *does* get an Opportunity Attack on any enemy that is taking the Retreat action. Per the rules, the primary unit doesn't get one when their opponent flees the battlefield... but perhaps that is what the flanking unit gets for coming in from behind? An Opportunity Attack on the retreating foe.</p><p></p><p>(By the same token, I wonder if a special action could be made for when two or more units completely surround an enemy so that there's no place it could retreat to should it be forced to take the Retreat action? A unit's morale breaks due to losing more than half its stands, but there's no where for it to move because all eight squares around it are occupied-- the next round the offensive units maybe get an Overrun action and completely destroy the unit automatically unless the unit's commander makes his Rally check-- in which case combat continues as normal?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7662371, member: 7006"] These are very interesting, and I actually have a mass combat lined up in my campaign in the coming weeks, so I'll get a chance to try these out. There's only one thing in the rules that I think I might add in, which is the idea of units coming in from the side or behind to flank a unit currently locked in battle with an ally. I'm not sure exactly what that would garner the flanking unit (and the primary unit if anything), but I think there should be something gained for creating this kind of pincher movement. Maybe it could be as simple as that the flanking unit *does* get an Opportunity Attack on any enemy that is taking the Retreat action. Per the rules, the primary unit doesn't get one when their opponent flees the battlefield... but perhaps that is what the flanking unit gets for coming in from behind? An Opportunity Attack on the retreating foe. (By the same token, I wonder if a special action could be made for when two or more units completely surround an enemy so that there's no place it could retreat to should it be forced to take the Retreat action? A unit's morale breaks due to losing more than half its stands, but there's no where for it to move because all eight squares around it are occupied-- the next round the offensive units maybe get an Overrun action and completely destroy the unit automatically unless the unit's commander makes his Rally check-- in which case combat continues as normal?) [/QUOTE]
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