OK, I'm starting to collect a Ogre Kingdom army, been kinda on pause for financial reasons for a few months, (so far I have a hunter, scraplancher, and a box of gnoblars.) but as long as all goes well with taxes (I find out tomarrow) I plan to actually get a playable force.
Now I'm a 40K veteren, but this will be my first endevor into fantasy; I'm excited to try it, but I have a question that I just can't figure out: it regards the stand and shoot charge reaction.
Let's suppose that an ogre player did something rather silly with their gnoblars and set them up like this:
...................XXXXX
...................XXXXX
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
OK the X's are the enemy about to charge let's call them cavelry ~12in away, they're over 1/2 their max charge range so the gnoblars can do a stand and shoot reaction.
The o's are the little gnoblars. OK the X's charge the gnoblars, and they choose to stand and shoot.
Ok situation set up: here is the question: The rule book says(if I'm not butchering the rules) that if the charging unit starts out of max range of the ranged attack (as is the case here) the attack is resolved at the maximum range of the ranged attack. My problem is that this happens at different times for different gnoblars. those actually lined up will all happen at once as seen below.
A) Do only these get to shoot? or. . .
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ooooooooooOOOOOoooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
B) Or, perhaps a few inches closer all that will have range and line of site at the same time could shoot? as so:
....................XXXXX
....................XXXXX
.................../........\
................../..........\
................./............\
................/..............\
oooooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
(pretend that those slants are 45degree angles. . .) here more can shoot, but they have to let their opponent get closer.
C) or a third and even more silly option: once the charging squad gets within range of some of the gnoblars the entire front rank on gnoblars gets to open fire on the charging squad. (both ranks on a hill)?
D) defender picks between A & B?
E) I'm totally off and it's none of the above?
Whew hope that makes sense.
edited to fix formatting. . .also to add that I'm meaning to, or endorsing using such a odd formation in battle, this is just an object example so that I might better understand the rules.
Now I'm a 40K veteren, but this will be my first endevor into fantasy; I'm excited to try it, but I have a question that I just can't figure out: it regards the stand and shoot charge reaction.
Let's suppose that an ogre player did something rather silly with their gnoblars and set them up like this:
...................XXXXX
...................XXXXX
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
OK the X's are the enemy about to charge let's call them cavelry ~12in away, they're over 1/2 their max charge range so the gnoblars can do a stand and shoot reaction.
The o's are the little gnoblars. OK the X's charge the gnoblars, and they choose to stand and shoot.
Ok situation set up: here is the question: The rule book says(if I'm not butchering the rules) that if the charging unit starts out of max range of the ranged attack (as is the case here) the attack is resolved at the maximum range of the ranged attack. My problem is that this happens at different times for different gnoblars. those actually lined up will all happen at once as seen below.
A) Do only these get to shoot? or. . .
....................XXXXX
....................XXXXX
....................|......|
....................|......|
....................|......|
....................|......|
....................|......|
....................|......|
ooooooooooOOOOOoooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
B) Or, perhaps a few inches closer all that will have range and line of site at the same time could shoot? as so:
....................XXXXX
....................XXXXX
.................../........\
................../..........\
................./............\
................/..............\
oooooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
(pretend that those slants are 45degree angles. . .) here more can shoot, but they have to let their opponent get closer.
C) or a third and even more silly option: once the charging squad gets within range of some of the gnoblars the entire front rank on gnoblars gets to open fire on the charging squad. (both ranks on a hill)?
D) defender picks between A & B?
E) I'm totally off and it's none of the above?
Whew hope that makes sense.
edited to fix formatting. . .also to add that I'm meaning to, or endorsing using such a odd formation in battle, this is just an object example so that I might better understand the rules.