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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nichwee" data-source="post: 5353937" data-attributes="member: 84242">Yes you get further away in one dimesion but 4ed only defines distance by the longest dimension.So you start the charge at distance: 2 Vertical 4 Horizontal = Distance 4and if you move into the squares up from the starting point you are at distance 3 Vertical 3 Horizontal = Distance 3.Obviously Distance 3 is closer than Distance 4. It is just odd that the true diagonal distance may well have grown, and even if not you didn't move closer as directly as you may expect. But that is the sort of thing that wanted to allow for charges now - the 'bob-and-weave' charge that can barrel past minor obsticles or enemies rather than be required to have a clear path with nothing between you.This makes sense if you think of a big guy charging when a person is in the square directly to the left of him and the one below that (in the RC diagram - I will call them G1 and G2 respectively). The 'big guy' sets his shoulder and barrels past G1 (in map squares he goes up and left) before shifting his weight back to his other side (downwards on the diagram) to alter the direction of his momentum and plow directly towards the target. This is exactly what a rugby player "charging" through a defensive line does. He shifts left and right a bit, to dodge tackles, while keeping his main momentum going in the direction he wants - normally directly down the pitch toward the try-line.</blockquote>