Bait & Hold Tactics for Parent, Combat Detachment & Archer Detachment
(1)
(1)The enemy sets upin a typical fashion attempting to charge the combat detachment and not the parent unit.
(2)
(2)In some situations it is better to hold with the screening archers rather than fleeing. To do this reform the archers into an angled line where the closest archer to the enemy is on the opposite side of the combat detachment.
(3)
(3)The enemy then charges the closest archer, if you set up correctly, the enemy will have to wheel towards the archer, thus eleminating any chance of a tactical wheel that will make the overrun go into the detachment rather than parent.
(4)
(4)The archer align to the enemy and fight.
(5)
(5)The archers die horribly! The enemy can hold or persue/overrun now, but only into the parent unit.
(6a)
(6b)
(6a)The enemy will overrun/persue into the parent unit.
(6b)the enemy will hold their ground and the parent will declare a charge on the enemy.
(7a)
(7b)
(7a)Then the combat detachment will charge the flank in your turn.
(7b)The combat detachment will make a support charge with the charging parent unit.
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