Yes, the CC counter - one of the ASL Rulebook's great enigmas.
...and yet they give us so many of the darn things!Yes, the CC counter - one of the ASL Rulebook's great enigmas.
It's got nothing on the HW rules. Do they really need to be so convoluted? I was thinking that something along the lines of...Yes, the CC counter - one of the ASL Rulebook's great enigmas.
)This made me laugh, because in the same game I did just that. The Russian stack had picked up a squad of prisoners and it advanced (a move or two after the one I referenced in my question) into a hex with a German squad that happened to be guarding two squads of Russian prisoners. To make matters worse, the German squad had been routed but there was an unbroken leader in the hex two, and two LMGs, one carried, one abandoned. I add the CC marker thinking I'd figure it out later. I did try...OK I tipped my hat at it...imagining the prisoners having their own punch-up while the German leader left the to it and tried to hold off the Russian 6-2-8 by himself, or imagined the Russian prisoners jumping him first...but in the end I plumped for the lazy option: the prisoners stayed out of it and the German leader won himself a posthumous gong...
Isn't that what the "?" counters are used for?
They were shorter before - but that version had its own set of problems. IIRC, they said "move in the general direction" - that was vague enough to be cause for interpretation.
A unit that starts on an upper level of a building might have trouble maintaining relative position. What happens if a unit runs into terrain that isn't enterable, e.g. offboard? It would be nice if all the units could converge on a single target if desired rather than being forced to run by. The general goal is simple, but once you start thinking about all the situations that these rules have to handle, you start to realize that there's a lot more to it.It's got nothing on the HW rules. Do they really need to be so convoluted? I was thinking that something along the lines of...
...would make for easier reading and understanding.
- Put a HW marker on each participating stack.
- Nominate the target hex
- The stack(s) at the centre of the wave must take the shortest route (in hexes) to the target hex
- Stacks must maintain the positions they had relative to the other participating stacks the start of the MPh. (EXC: "closing ranks" following casualties).
(Said the guy with no rule-writing experience whatever...
Perhaps managing the various tradeoffs well. Abuse is one tradeoff. Complexity is another.
An extract: "The Human Wave player next bonks his opponent over the head with the ASL rulebook (not the ASLSK rulebook)."
aka a taser.
