| Rosenberg | 10 Jul 2022 3:20 a.m. PST |
If you detach light companies from their parent unit to skirmish or form a screen I'm sure I have seen somewhere in the rules how far they can move away from their parent unit but I can't find it in the rules. Can anyone help? One source of fustration with Empire has always been the poor quality of the index hopefully Scotty will in his new edition of the rules address this and pay for a professional indexer to compile the index. |
| Rosenberg | 10 Jul 2022 4:20 a.m. PST |
I think I've now found it. Chapter IV 4.11 onwards, detached figures and artillery companies must be within 3 inches of their parent unit or of a formed unit within their parent ME respectively. Phew! But can someone confirm this, Thanks. |
| Rosenberg | 10 Jul 2022 4:25 a.m. PST |
But that means enemy artillery can't fire through a screen onto the parent unit if its 5 inches behind the screen. It must be within 3 inches ? |
| 14Bore | 10 Jul 2022 1:27 p.m. PST |
Distance to screen unit is key if fire goes through or not.
In III anyway. |
| Froglidite | 12 Jul 2022 10:41 a.m. PST |
Empire V: For Grand Tactical movement, unformed troops of a ME must be within 3" in any direction of a formed unit of the same ME. (ME Orders 4.14 through 4.22, pages 36-40) |
| Froglidite | 12 Jul 2022 10:47 a.m. PST |
Empire V: For Tactical movement, unformed castings may never be further than 6" from their parent unit. (Tactical Combat 11.19-2, page 88) |
| Froglidite | 12 Jul 2022 11:15 a.m. PST |
Empire V: For artillery screened by unformed skirmishers, skirmisher castings need to be within 2" and in front of the firing artillery pieces while there are no formed friendly units behind the skirmishers within 5" of the firing enemy artillery, In this instance, the artillery can only fire on the skirmisher castings within 2". (Tactical Combat 11.4, page 84, side with tactical initiative) |
| Froglidite | 12 Jul 2022 11:29 a.m. PST |
Empire V; For artillery screened by semi-skirmishers…"Semi-skirmisher formations screen off any enemy small arms fire issued from the same contour or lower and absorb 50% of the artillery fire being issued through the unit in semi-skirmish order onto units behind them within 2" of the semi-skirmishers. If the semi-skirmishers are within 2" of the enemy artillery and in front of the firing pieces, the enemy artillery can only fire on the semi-skirmishers unless a friendly formed unit behind the semi-skirmishers are within 5" of the firing enemy artillery. In the latter case, the enemy artillery must expend 50% of its fire percentage onto the semi-skirmishers and 50$ of its fire percentage onto the formed unit behind the semi-skirmishers." (Tactical Combat 11.4, page 84, side with tactical initiative) |
| tvlamb | 12 Jul 2022 4:57 p.m. PST |
Even in Empire III, if the screen is 2" in front of the artillery and the parent is 3" behind the screen, then the parent unit is actually 5.5" (2" to screen + 1/2" base of screen + 3" to parent) from the artillery and can't be fired upon. |
| Rosenberg | 12 Jul 2022 11:30 p.m. PST |
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