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Clipping as it relates to 6th, 7th, & 8th Edition WFB ...

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Fidelis von Sigmaringen:
We serve to please and please to serve.

Padre:
It's rules like this that make us glad we so often have a GM for our 8th ed battles. We house rule 'clipping' and slide to maximise every time, purely because even in a fantasy world the idea of guys standing around, maybe 9 in a horde, with other giuys ranked behind, all doing nothing while one or two guys at the corner fight, seems (and looks) stupid. I would be embarassed to put a pic of such in a battle report. We always find a way of not having a combat fought in such a silly way.

It might not be the rules as written, but hey, when we have loads of fan-made army lists and house ruled units, in a campaign where although points and the like are accounted for in great accuracy, battles rarely involve 'equal' value forces, fudging some RAW rules to avoid such disappointingly unconvincing situations is the least of our crimes.

99% of the rules we stick to rigidly, as they work and don't seem too daft. But when a rule tries to force such daftness, we have our houserules.

I suppose it's stuff like this which could make playing with strangers uncomfortable! But even 8th ed is most usually played amongst old friends, I reckon!

brr-icy:

--- Quote from: Fidelis von Sigmaringen on May 08, 2021, 07:19:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: KTG17 on May 07, 2021, 11:59:36 PM ---Thanks for trying to clear this up Fidelis! Actually fig 1a was one I had a hard time understanding. Each opposing unit is 6 warriors wide, but they only line up 5. I know that each of the 6 would get the chance to strike but I don’t understand why they don’t just make them even. Why would they offset them?

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Precisely because at that point all models are in CC, and there is no need to slide further sideways. The same is true for 2.a; it just happens to be that in this case, because of the different footprint,  no model will end up offset (Knights: 4 x 25 mm = 100 mm; enemy unit: 6 x 20 mm = 120 mm).

The Appendix also mentions allowing diagonal attacks or an extra wheel when charging as possible solutions, but sliding sideways seems the easiest option.

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This is exactly what we do, just slide over and call it a day.

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