A few voters wanted to move to take advantage of HC being attack
superior vs RC, but in fact it isn't. HC is defense
superior to attacking RC, but the table isn't symmetric, so
the reverse does not apply.
Option | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Trump with Pyrrhus | 6 | |
| anything else | 0 |
My thoughts:
There's no decision to be made here -- Pyrrhus should obviously trump. His chances are excellent, there's a good opportunity to mop up the Roman right if he succeeds, and the penalty for failure is acceptable, given that Drusus can't give a line command (and hence his next attack wouldn't be much more impressive than the last).
In this case Pyrrhus (barely) succeeds in trumping with a dieroll of '7'.
A few voters wanted to move to take advantage of HC being attack
superior vs RC, but in fact it isn't. HC is defense
superior to attacking RC, but the table isn't symmetric, so
the reverse does not apply.
Instead, I've gone with surrounding the adjacent units (which can't use Reaction Facing Change, because they're in Epirote ZOC) to guarantee elimination and minimize off-board pursuit.
Since the HC that were attacked last turn do nothing, Pyrrhus has some extra orders (with high initiatives, individual orders are often better than line commands), so he orders the nearest archers to fire at the velites. One of them does manage to get a hit.
Pre-Shock TQ checks eliminate the routed RC, rout the northern RC,
and inflict two TQ hits on the northernmost HC. Since the now-routed
RC is surrounded by units and ZOCs, it too is eliminated.
That leaves the shock attack vs the southern RC. A low roll inflicts 3 hits on the attacker and 4 hits on the defender, causing a rout which becomes an elimination due to ZOCs.
That's 15 Rout Points down, only 170 more to go for Pyrrhus.
Clearly Pyrrhus should try for momentum -- most voters mentioned it -- and he succeeds with a dieroll of '1'. I'll stop here and ask: What now?
In particular: