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**cassius**

-Loki- wrote:
Pacific wrote:
It sounds a simple thing, but remembering facing of units. I had one game where an air-drop unit came down behind my guys. We'd never used one before, but I kind of had some idea that my opponent might have used something like that. Then, I looked at my units and.... they were all pressed up and facing the wall, like they'd done something naughty and been told to go stand there

The air drop unit raised his HMG and my team discovered the error of their ways the hard way. From that point forward, it was units covering each other as they move forward from different angles, thinking where you might get out-flanked. It's a really small but important mechanic, and I think really cool. After many years of mass-battle systems it made a nice change from just shovelling your units forward in a haphazard way and not having to think beyond that.

This happened to me today. My brother used a new list based on Wu Ming. It was all going smoothly for me until he found a Muyib in a building with his HMG. He was just out of my LOS and the Muyib died. The Wu Ming rounded the building and shot my Barid Lt and Lasiq Sniper. Both in the back. I lost.

Did he shoot your Muyib in the back as well? Was he just outside your front arc?

**bahzakhain**

Reformatted, it's an article now. Anyone who has something to say about it can poop his egg out (sorry, direct translation out of Dutch, didn't know English proverb) in the article discussion.

**Alpharius**

bahzakhain wrote:
Reformatted, it's an article now. Anyone who has something to say about it can poop his egg out (sorry, direct translation out of Dutch, didn't know English proverb) in the article discussion.

The direct translation works for me!

**GrimDork**

Yeah, that one is kind of awesome. So it's a Netherlands thing? I'm going to have to drop that and see how many quirked eyebrows I get sometime

**-Loki-**

cassius wrote:
-Loki- wrote:
Pacific wrote:
It sounds a simple thing, but remembering facing of units. I had one game where an air-drop unit came down behind my guys. We'd never used one before, but I kind of had some idea that my opponent might have used something like that. Then, I looked at my units and.... they were all pressed up and facing the wall, like they'd done something naughty and been told to go stand there

The air drop unit raised his HMG and my team discovered the error of their ways the hard way. From that point forward, it was units covering each other as they move forward from different angles, thinking where you might get out-flanked. It's a really small but important mechanic, and I think really cool. After many years of mass-battle systems it made a nice change from just shovelling your units forward in a haphazard way and not having to think beyond that.

This happened to me today. My brother used a new list based on Wu Ming. It was all going smoothly for me until he found a Muyib in a building with his HMG. He was just out of my LOS and the Muyib died. The Wu Ming rounded the building and shot my Barid Lt and Lasiq Sniper. Both in the back. I lost.

Did he shoot your Muyib in the back as well? Was he just outside your front arc?

Yes. The Muyib was facing the inside wall of the building, turned slightly the wrong way, so I had no fire arc to the door the Wu Ming HMG appeared in. Dead Muyib. The Wu Ming rounded the building, and my Barid and Lasiq were behind it - both facing the opposite direction. Dead Barid and dead Lasiq. The Barid also happened to be my Lt.

**Bolognesus**

GrimDork wrote:
Yeah, that one is kind of awesome. So it's a Netherlands thing? I'm going to have to drop that and see how many quirked eyebrows I get sometime

...Not sure what region he's from (could be some dialect) but us civilized city types tend to use "laying an egg about it" (closest translation, could be over or on instead if you're really stretching the expression)

**GrimDork**

Interesting . Gonna drop it in conversation and see how it goes

**bahzakhain**

Bolognesus wrote:
GrimDork wrote:
Yeah, that one is kind of awesome. So it's a Netherlands thing? I'm going to have to drop that and see how many quirked eyebrows I get sometime

...Not sure what region he's from (could be some dialect) but us civilized city types tend to use "laying an egg about it" (closest translation, could be over or on instead if you're really stretching the expression)

Changed it a bit, really direct translation would be 'losing' it, but that would be when you can't find it anymore...