charging serial units that form square

[chrach7]

I've been checking through other posts but I haven't seen this addressed yet (sorry if it was touched upon somewhere else)-

If I charge an infantry unit with cavalry, can I charge another unit with my remaining movement after they have formed square?

Thanks in advance.

[grant]

No - your order would be "The 7/21 Lancers shall charge the 2eme Regt de Ligne" and when they form square, your Lancers do not have orders to charge another unit. Your best bet is to break the infantry, meaning they cannot form square, and then put them out of their misery with the Lancers.

Hope this helps!

[Big Al]

The rule for squares on pages 74/75 do not say whether you can or can't charge another enemy, only that the cavalry move to a point 3 inches away from the square and then use up the rest of their movement either going back from where they started or around the square.

Grant's answer is correct if you have used an order similar to the one he has used as an example. However, if you just gave a general "Charge" order without specifying an enemy unit, then I suppose that you could do as you have suggested, as long as the next enemy unit met all of the conditions at the start of the cavalry unit's move. In other words, the cavalry must have line of sight to the enemy unit when it starts it's charge move.

[Cubster]

Would it be deemed a little iffy to give an order such as, "Engage the enemy to the front" and thus redirect charges?

[Invisible officer]

Hmm, Wellington's cavalry in attack would charge everything in sight. Getting out of control. Attacking until being destroyed or scattered by the better led French cavalry. The Union Brigade charge at Waterloo is only the best known of a long list of these fox hunter attacks.

But the French? No.

[Alan Charlesworth]

Seems to me it is fairly clear cut in the rule book.

Cavalry that charge infantry which successfully form square:

"will automatically halt 3" away and the player can use whatever move remains to ride his cavalry back, or around the side of the enemy, as he wishes" (page 75).

I don't see how that phrase can be interpreted as allowing a further charge? Riding back or round the side isn't charging the enemy in my understanding?

It doesn't matter how the orders have been phrased, I don't see how the above can be twisted into allowing a further charge.

Of, course if you want to have your own house rule for multiple charges in a single turn thats fine.

[ady2650]

I would agree with Alans interpretation, RAW

[chrach7]

The RAW interpretation is how we have been playing. It always seems a little disappointing to have so much leftover movement and nothing useful to do with it.

[Cubster]

Yeah, seems sensible.

[howayman]

If a cavalry unit is given an order to charge the enemy infantry and gets three moves, Should it not be able to charge towards and around a newly formed square and then on to any other exposed infantry.