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Hello Gentlemen (and the intermittent Lady):
We threw a random meeting engagement together and came face-to-face with an issue we hadn't encountered in our previous dozen games.
It was French vs. Austrians, several brigades each. A town of a few buildings was in the middle. We set the occupancy limit at 80 troops.
Everyone tactical marched and marched to arrive at the town within the same turn, with the French winning the iniative and actually being the first troops into the town. The Austrians responded in their movement phase by also entering into the town.
Here is where things started getting a little weird. Initially, we let both sides -- two battalions each -- fire on one another ( which we think we discovered later to be incorrect since they have actually both gone unformed at this point )
Then we (correctly I think) went into melee in the following turn, skipping that turn's charge phase for this part of the battle.
Should the French have received the bonus at this point for "holding" the town? Are they both still unformed? Also, at this point there are about 60 some French fighting about 80 or so Austrians -- way over the 80 capacity of the town. Do they all fight or do some have to stay out of the town to be fed in as space allows?
The French threw back the Austrians in that first melee, and then the Austrians reformed and stormed the town again. The charge was made onto only one side of the town, so do both defending French battalions need to make the morale test or only the one that was defending that particular side? - the other French battalion in the town was being hammered on a different side by Austrian 12-pounders
And if/when the Austrians closed to melee on that one side would they go hand-to-hand with only that one French battalion or fight all Frenchies defending the town?
We threw a random meeting engagement together and came face-to-face with an issue we hadn't encountered in our previous dozen games.
It was French vs. Austrians, several brigades each. A town of a few buildings was in the middle. We set the occupancy limit at 80 troops.
Everyone tactical marched and marched to arrive at the town within the same turn, with the French winning the iniative and actually being the first troops into the town. The Austrians responded in their movement phase by also entering into the town.
Here is where things started getting a little weird. Initially, we let both sides -- two battalions each -- fire on one another ( which we think we discovered later to be incorrect since they have actually both gone unformed at this point )
Then we (correctly I think) went into melee in the following turn, skipping that turn's charge phase for this part of the battle.
Should the French have received the bonus at this point for "holding" the town? Are they both still unformed? Also, at this point there are about 60 some French fighting about 80 or so Austrians -- way over the 80 capacity of the town. Do they all fight or do some have to stay out of the town to be fed in as space allows?
The French threw back the Austrians in that first melee, and then the Austrians reformed and stormed the town again. The charge was made onto only one side of the town, so do both defending French battalions need to make the morale test or only the one that was defending that particular side? - the other French battalion in the town was being hammered on a different side by Austrian 12-pounders
And if/when the Austrians closed to melee on that one side would they go hand-to-hand with only that one French battalion or fight all Frenchies defending the town?