Bataille Empire

Oh dear, should have read that before posting.

Agreed, tactical distance to enemy should exclude skirmishers and irregular cavalry.
This will also affect rallying. Not unreasonable that a few skirmishers cannot prevent rallying as they present no threat of shock attack or dangerous fire like artillery.

It is quite unusual to be in a situation where a column cannot countercharge. Usually it means it has been caught with manoeuvre orders. In this case we assume it is not deployed for combat and caught by surprise. The brilliance of this game is the order system. Learning not to get caught on manoeuv...

'Column' covers both an attack column, and what would be a much narrower formation, a column for movement. I assume the fact that a unit standing to receive a charge is the latter, hence receives no factor.

All the units have to do is face the same direction and be within 2UD of each other. If the front edges are level, the unit on the inside of the wheeling group will be ahead after the wheel. Even after quite a large angle of wheel the rearr corner of the 'inside' unit will still be within 2UD of the...

I appreciate the problems, especially when teaching new players. However, the enforced separation of units and the need to align them makes for a good looking game I suspect without the passage of lines rules we would see units crowded together and some quite ugly games with a whole lot of interpene...

The English translation of the rules about wheeling is a little confusing:
A unit/group is permitted one wheel in a move.
A unit may make several wheels in a move.

Do we take it that the 'unit/' in the first sentence is unnecessary?
Any opinions?

It is a choice. Stay put or withdraw and take an action marker.

As on the Facebook discussion, you are correct.
The question is whether divisions broke historically.
In units tend to degrade and then end up on retreat to avoid further losses, which seems about right.

We have always assumed that the counter-charger wins tied results.