El' Jocko
09-26-2011, 05:23 PM
I've always believed that light horse are underpowered in DBA. And the discussion of horse archers got me thinking about ways to make light horse more effective. Rather than finding a way to allow light horse to shoot, most of my thinking centered around making them more maneuverable, and I came up with this idea. If I was introducing a bill into Congress, I would name it "The Making Mongols Count Act of 2011".
Groups entirely of Light Horse may make a group move for one PIP using the following procedure:
1. The elements must start in a single element deep line or a single element wide column.
2. The elements must finish the move in single element deep line or a single element wide column (they may start as a line and finish as a column, and vice-versa).
3. To get from the starting position to the finishing position, each element may move as if making a single element move. They must observe all the normal restrictions on movement distance, ZOC, etc.
Perhaps this would make light horse too maneuverable and be unbalancing. But it doesn't make them any more powerful when they fight, it just means they get to where they want to go more easily, and without being a massive PIP drain.
- Jack
Groups entirely of Light Horse may make a group move for one PIP using the following procedure:
1. The elements must start in a single element deep line or a single element wide column.
2. The elements must finish the move in single element deep line or a single element wide column (they may start as a line and finish as a column, and vice-versa).
3. To get from the starting position to the finishing position, each element may move as if making a single element move. They must observe all the normal restrictions on movement distance, ZOC, etc.
Perhaps this would make light horse too maneuverable and be unbalancing. But it doesn't make them any more powerful when they fight, it just means they get to where they want to go more easily, and without being a massive PIP drain.
- Jack