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[Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
Hello All,
On page MC34, it says that in an Ambush: Quote:
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05-21-2009, 01:22 PM | #2 |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
For the first turn of the ambush only, they get the same defense bonus someone would normally get were they fighting a pitched battle on the same terrain.
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05-21-2009, 02:35 PM | #3 |
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05-21-2009, 03:00 PM | #4 |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
Now that I said that, I may be misremembering and it may not just be for the first turn. But that's how me and my friends ran it in the playtest. Helped model the initial "oomph" from an ambush, and usually ended up in a landslide after that.
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05-21-2009, 03:03 PM | #5 |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
I think you're right. The rule could be spelled out more clearly, but your way does make sense of it.
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05-21-2009, 03:09 PM | #6 |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
Yeah, actually on re-reading it I think you get the bonus for the whole battle. Which makes ambushes even nastier.
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05-22-2009, 10:51 AM | #7 |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
Hmm. It would be good to have this question Krommified or Pulverized.
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05-22-2009, 12:53 PM | #8 |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
I think it's fairly clear (IMO) I just misread the rules. The way the deadliness of an ambush is modeled in Mass Combat is by giving an attacker the bonus an entrenched defender would normally get for that terrain.
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05-22-2009, 01:13 PM | #9 |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
Keeping the bonuses in later rounds, as the ambushers quite likely press the attack, seems a bit strange. Though I agree that that's what the text looks like. The death spiral effect means that a first-turn defense bonus plus the enemy starting out confused is likely to set the tone of the entire battle.
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05-22-2009, 01:16 PM | #10 | |
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Re: [Mass Combat] Defensive Bonus in Ambush
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