Help with the standard wagon battle card

[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

[David Kuijt]

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.

[Roundie]

okay cheers

[David Kuijt]

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.

[David Kuijt]

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...

[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.