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Help with the standard wagon battle card
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 2:58 am
by Roundie
Hi all
The lads and I are planning a new campaign and while I was checking army lists I noticed the Neo- Assyrians can take a "Standard wagon" card. This grants a +1 in combat for units who's rear edge is in contact with the standard wagon. What happen to such a unit if it losses the combat but is not doubled/shattered. Does it fall back through the standard wagon, stay where it is, push back the wagon or just die?
cheers
Roundie
Re: Help with the standard wagon battle card
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:11 am
by David Kuijt
Roundie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 2:58 am
Hi all
The lads and I are planning a new campaign and while I was checking army lists I noticed the Neo- Assyrians can take a "Standard wagon" card. This grants a +1 in combat for units who's rear edge is in contact with the standard wagon. What happen to such a unit if it losses the combat but is not doubled/shattered. Does it fall back through the standard wagon, stay where it is, push back the wagon or just die?
cheers
Roundie
Die. You cannot pass through a standard wagon, and nobody can push a standard wagon back.
Re: Help with the standard wagon battle card
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:59 am
by Roundie
okay cheers
Re: Help with the standard wagon battle card
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:35 pm
by David Kuijt
Roundie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:59 am
Works fine if you're facing Knights.
Not so good in the push and shove of elite or heavy infantry. But then, those armies didn't use Standard Wagons.
Re: Help with the standard wagon battle card
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:40 pm
by David Kuijt
Roundie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 2:58 am
The lads and I are planning a new campaign and while I was checking army lists I noticed the Neo- Assyrians can take a "Standard wagon" card.
The Neo-Assyrian "standard wagon" (a bunch of divine standards in a decorative non-combat chariot) is a bit speculative, and doesn't appear as a significant feature in most of their battles. But it does get a mention, so it is included as a possibility. That doesn't make it wise, necessarily...
Re: Help with the standard wagon battle card
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:29 pm
by Roundie
cheers
I don't think my mate will opt to take it but, I just wanted to have an understanding of the rules just in case.