Supporting file on the same side as a flank charge. Break offs into terrain.

[craig.w]

A couple of questions from the last competition.

The halberdiers are fighting the handgunners. The cavalry come into the flank to fight the halberdiers. In the melee phase, does the handgunner marked with the red cross fight as a supporting file? Looks a bit dodgy but the rules don't say no.


A loose formation foot UG is fighting an UG of cataphracts in the open. Directly behind the loose formation foot is a rocky ground. Can the foot break off from the cataphracts because their move in the rocky ground is 3BW and the cataphracts' move is 2BW? 

Thanks

Craig



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[nikgaukroger]

As far as I'm aware the base is a supporting file.

Break off moves do not mention anything about speed being determined by terrain you will end up in, therefore, IMO it is taken as the terrain they are currently in.

[Simon Meg-Meister]

Yes it does.
Basically there is room to have either a supporting file forwards or sideways but not both.
No need for an exclusion.

S