Too Fat Lardies

DJ, the rules say no. Skirmishers lose a CD when firing at other skirmishers, but not artillery. I guess the logic is that artillery gunners present as a clumped target when serving a gun unlike skirmishers who can take advantage of cover even when firing.

Not my period really, but I did see the new Australian movie about Long Tan - highly recommended. The military stuff looks to be on the mark.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441881/

Thats what 6mm can allow you to do - real focus on terrain and avoids the Napoleonic pike block look - well done

Great stuff there Dave

gents, amongst some tinkering my colleague and I were doing I thought about troop grades and how I would like to have a genuine Guard status units. I am talking about real Old Guard,best Brit Foot Guards, maybe some select Russian Guard units. So rather than play around with the unit grading by crea...

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So it doesnt specifically state that a unit is unformed crossing a stream.

from the rules, pg 61: Rough Terrain: Includes woods, shallow rivers, deep streams and steep or rugged slopes. • Close Order Infantry move at half speed as soon as the unit moves into such terrain, including Fog of War cards. Close Order Infantry fire using the Inferior volley line when in Rough ter...

if crossing a decent stream and certainly a river, wouldnt the unit crossing be regarded as Unformed?

I would have thought that a cavalry charge would have been the perfect circumstances to do this