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CamelCity -> RE: Question Re Orders (5/9/2005 2:48:22 AM)
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Charging is not always as good as the regular melee attack.
Cavalry charging into a foot unit armed with spears is a bad thing: -4 Roll modifier! There is not really a "penalty" in the subsequent phases of the charge attack; the attack simply reverts to a regular melee attack, where any bonuses or penalties for that type of attack would apply.
The way I read the counter-charge bonus is that the counter-charging unit receives the charging bonuses the first phase it defends an attack, and reverts to regular defend after that. The charge modifiers determined by weapon type: +2 for spearmen, +1 for swordsmen or axemen.
So a unit armed with spears in a counter-charge would, on the first phase it is attacked, receive a +2 bonus to its own roll. The next phase it is attacked, the unit reverts to regular defend, so it receives no bonus to its roll, and the attacker would receive a -1 to its roll (for the defender's "defend" posture).
Table 1.0 in the appendix lists the modifiers.
Again, this is just my understanding of the orders & roll modifiers; if I've got it wrong, I'm sure the nice folks at Koios who read the board will correct me![:D]
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