Heraclea Interactive Replay

Turn 2: Laevinus's Activation

The voting:

	Option	Votes
	Get the stray velites into line	1
	Remove hits from nearby units	1
	Ditto, but advance across the river first	3
	Recover an RC hit, move across river, recover alae cohorts	1
	Ditto, moving Plautius up, too	1
	Recover an RC hit, move across the river, attack exposed MI/SK	1
	Attack the exposed MI	1
	Move Laevinus to the Roman right so that he can rally	1

No real consensus of here, although almost everyone suggested some form of recovery. It's too bad that Laevinus can't be more help to the cavalry, but his command range (5) allows him to help only one unit without moving, and no one seemed to think that moving him to help out more units was worthwhile. (Several folks did mention recovering two RCs before moving out, but since that wasn't possible I counted that as recovering a single RC.)

Almost everyone stressed the need for Laevinus to be in a position to hand out Line Commands next turn, so I was surprised that only one person voted for using an order to push Plautius forward (maybe because folks didn't know or forgot that you could?). I think it's so important that I'm going to do it in spite of the lack of proponents for the maneuver.

Trying to act otherwise in accord with the wishes of the majority, Laevinus's move looks like this:

Routing, not shown: AS/VII LG h
In Pursuit: AS/XV Ex RC (w/ 4 hits)

Laevinus first removes the two hits on the only RC in range (allowing Falco to then use his three orders to get the remaining cavalry up to snuff). He then orders Plautius forward, advances forward himself, and uses his remaining two orders to knock hits off the front line.

The turn then ends. Roman Missile No cohorts in the center recover their javelins, routed units move towards their rout edge (shown above), with one (previously not shown) Epirote LC actually making it off the edge and into the Rout Point totals:

	Side	Current	Limit	Pct
	Romans	55	185	30%
	Epirotes	36	120	30%

It's now time to begin turn 3. Should Pyrrhus use his Elite Initiative? If yes, what should he do? If no, what should Plautius and Rebilus (the '2' initiative leaders) do?

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