No, I am not making an argument - I am accepting what has been said. The rules are vague on what happens in the situation I have described. So the group I belong to will have to come up with a house rule to cover what happens. This is not a criticism of "VwQ". Who could complain about a free set of ...

Joe, thanks for your interesting reply. While what you say is sensible advice, personally I do think that the rules should spell out what happens in the situation I have described. Stating the obvious, pursuit after Cavalry melee isn't really a rare or unusual event in the War of the Three Kingdoms....

The aftermath of a cavalry melee still confuses me! Let us say that a regiment of Ironsides has just defeated a regiment of Cavaliers - they have suffered one casualty and rout. There is a second regiment of Royalist horse 4 inches directly behind them. The Cavaliers roll 8 for their rout move. I th...

Thanks for the swift reply, Clarence. What you have said is how I imagined morale tests to be handled. Its not explicit in the rules as published, but it is certainly the common sense approach. I don't think there is any ""auto recovery" of morale in the rules - to become steady a hold order has to ...

Another query from me: An infantry regiment is currently shaken. It's card is the next one turned up. It has to take a morale test because there is a routing infantry unit within 6 inches. The regiment passes the morale test with flying colours! So ........ 1) Does it now become steady? or 2) It rem...

Highlanders can still fire when they charge? I assume that is the only exception to your clarification?

Many thanks for the quick reply. The answers were the ones I was hoping for. Everything is now clear - on with the game!
Ian

My first question is about Officers issuing orders. A brigadier has a command span of 6 inches, and when his card is drawn a regiment in his brigade is 16 inches away from him. Can he move 12 inches and issue an order to them, or must they be within his command span before he commences any movement?...