Reply To: Deployment

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Les Hammond wrote:

Thing is, unless your units have spotted some enemy dispositions in the game, can reacting to as yet unlocated enemy be justified at all? Surely the only thing known at the outset is the terrain (more or less) and that the enemy are somewhere out there?

 

Les, I regard all the calculating initiative, dicing to decide who goes first & various deployment rules as Stage One of the wargame where both players strive for advantage. If you want to justify the process, it’s easily done. The player deemed to be defending home territory, naturally gains an advantage as does the player who has a preponderance in light cavalry (out-scouting). If you then throw in the ability of some generals to “read” terrain & to make calculated guesses as to their enemy’s dispositions, it all makes sense.

Consider Hannibal in Italy, who used local guides, had the best light cavalry of the period & seemed to always know what the Romans would do. If you have some of Hannibal’s ability & some luck, your deployment should confer advantage too.

 

donald