"Have you ever victimized someone with buttocks of death?" Topic

As it seems dirty pool, do you have regrets?

I have been the victim and despise it. It's why I rarely play any DBA anymore.

Thanks,

John

Yes, and no.

And as I demonstrated at the Berkeley Hordes tournement, if you have two elements with smallish base depths in front and side contact with your own element; it's possible to place a single element in the angle with a corner behind both to kill them both if they recoil. More cheese than you dreamed possible.

I most rules sets when your unit/element/figure is surrounded play ends. Enemy to your rear is not a good thing. And, yes.

In 2.2, recoiling an enemy element into the rear edge of one of your elements results in mutual destruction. A pointless exercise, I would've thought, in most cases.

Tucking elements partially behind others to avoid contact or gain time is more annoying.

Rude not to in HOTT against an experienced player, and rude to do so against an inexperienced player.

What else are flying units for in HoTT?

Destroying enemy units by surrounding them is pretty standard tactics if you can pull it off.

Please, can someone direct me to an online diagram for this tactic? Thank you.

As for other forms of blocking recoil, if you can manage to out maneuver your opponent to that extent then I have little sympathy.

No on line diagram, but an excellent explanation

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I've seen it done on the rugby pitch. Not a pretty sight.

One of our club members is known for this.
Usually after he eats sauerkraut.

It seems to me to be an ability to game the rules and not the battle. Like someone else said, one (of the several) reasons i prefer other games.

JJ

Fighting to the front and flank or front and rear will see you die nine times out of ten in any system. It's more extreme in DBx games but they're fast play < one hour games. Everything is more extreme in dbx games.

Usually after he eats sauerkraut.

Dirty pool.

It is not dirty pool (the original topic, not the sauerkraut related topic), and yes I have used it with no regrets. Got a 4-3 win, even with the mutual destruction.

Dale

It's probably worth separating the BoD from the (IMO) very valid tactic of getting a unit behind the target to prevent them from recoiling.

It can look a bit strange, but I take the view that an element base is best looked at as an "area of influence' for troops, and that within the 'area of influence' the troops are doing wahtever it takes to protect themselves or harm the enemy.

So I assume that some, but not all, troops from the buttocking element are actually turned and fighting the recoiling element, hunting down officers and whatever to cause maximum panic in the recoiler.

db

Usually the game is about over when you get an enemy on your rear.

I have used it when my opponent deserved it ;-)

"Buttocks of death."

No but it has to be one of all time great wargaming terms.

Yes. But what I do in the privacy of my own home is my business!

Oh. You mean DBA! Um. I have but only when they were reaching into their own bag of tricks.

Not used or been subject to it. It seems more than a little ungentlemanly.

My playing partner used it in DBM against Richard Bodley Scott, with a demoralised element blocking a pursuer's recoil. RBS was not amused.