We played again last night using the 2d6 against heavy cav. I was please with the results.. as I told Mark, Once you have the intial fight, and take out units either way, it makes it easier to massacre.. Let's say this, it gives you a longer "engagement" instead of being more of a "Cheese Group".

The Question is, is this only in a group of 6 Heavy Cav? or does it go into effect anytime you face heavy Cav. Let's say you have 2 Common Heavy cav (3+3= 6) going against 2 common Light Infantry (2+2= 4). As you can see there is not that much difference in the score..

So, is this a "group of 6" rule only? Thoughts?

RebelMike

I would think it would work well with a group of 4...maybe even a group of 3 but that would be the outer outer limit.  Hoever, Mike brings up a good point.  When would you roll 2D6 and when would you roll 1D6.  Maybe a better solution would be to limit support.  You could do something like this....

The first unit  uses the combat CF

The second unit adds support.

The third unit adds support -1.

The forth unit adds support -2 etc. 

The smallest amount of support would be 1 so numbers less than 1 are treated as 1.

In the case of the cavalry unit. 

the CF is 5 and the support is 3.  A group of 6 would be 5 +3+2+1+1+1 for a total of 13.  That's an extreme unit.

Light infantry has a CF of 3 and support of 2.  So, a unit of 6 would be 3+2+1+1+1+1 for a total of 9.  That is a winnable fight if only a slim chance.  You could keep the die a 1XD6 as per the rules now or perhaps go to a D10 for more randomness. 

Adding the "economies of scale" to the support is not too much of a change and the simple modifiers for flanking etc are more in line without change.

John

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I actually quite like this idea. Will need to test it, but it will provide some interesting composition choices as you suggest.

Nice one John!

Ben.