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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stuntman" data-source="post: 5094077" data-attributes="member: 84817">This is not the proper way to protect someone in the back ranks.  If the enemy and your charge (the person you are trying to protect) are directly verticle or horizontal to each other, you should not place yourself directly in between the enemy and your charge. The proper way to protect your charge is to move adjacent to the enemy.  That way, the enemy must provoke an OA if he wants to move past you or have to waste a shift to move away from you and need more movement to get to your charge.Another way to protect your charge is to ready and action to charge (the standard action) the enemy when he gets near your charge (the one you are protecting).  This way, works well because the enemy is likely in the middle of his move action and must either not attack your charge or provoke an OA if he wants to continue and attack your charge.The diagonal movement rules force you to do things differently, but still allows you to protect your charge and force the enemy to waste movement or provoke and OA when you are defending someone.</blockquote>