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Oct 30 11 5:50 PM

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We had a game today, and we couldn't really agree on how much movment was allowed.

How big is the area you are holding.

One problem we incounterd was I I wanted to move around some of my battalions, just how much can they move It would have been helpfull to have a 30cm or some sort of range.

We kept having to give new orders of move just to re possison our figures, to protect an open flank ect.
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Oct 30 11 10:03 PM

You need tp define the area you are holding (specific area, terrain featureetc. You can move within the defended area, change formation etc but cannot initiate charges. In the Deluxe rules an Excellent brigade commande can order a charge against unformed or faaltering troops or skirmishers but any units involved must fall back to the area their brigade is defending

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Oct 31 11 10:44 AM

How "expansive" can this "area" be, the rules are vague on this point.

I am just worried that people will use it as an excuse to make pretty much any redeployment without trying to change the orders of the brigade in question. One of the aspects of GdB I like is the fact that sometimes your brigade(s) wont do as you like due to them being on the wrong order or the failure of changing the brigade order.

As a participant of the game in the first post one of the players wanted to move a regiment of cavalry and a battalion of infantry in front and to the right of his "line" in order to defend against outflanking cavalry.

I feel that this would require a movement order since it was a major redeployment of the brigade dispositions. However it was argued that is was legal within the hold order.

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Oct 31 11 5:23 PM

If you made your brigade area too large you might well end up having command and control difficulties. There were reasons commanders formed brigasdes and divisions into two or three lines.

In regard to the situation it could well depend on the wording of the order. If a cgange of position can be justified under the wording of the hold order you are currently on then the change of position you mentioned might be permissible. If not you would have to change your orders. I agree there could be people who exploit the rule but, personally I think it would be reasonable to allow a zone of control up to say one move by the main unit type within that brigade. This would limit the degree to which exploitation would be possible while allowing some local flexibility. Hence Colbourne could flank the Imperial Guard as he did as long as he is still within a move of his brigade's assigned position (assuming the brigade was on a hold order. But when Wellington orders "the whole line to advance" the brigade would need to change orders to Move or Attack, whichever is appropriate under the circumstanes

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