Bataille Empire

In many armies the infantry units have both deep and linear order. This question was asked today: can units of these armies change from column to line before advancing and claim to have made a full distance move? I feel that this should not be permitted. It seems the intention of the rule is that th...

On reflection, I am unsure about this. Perhaps it is more simple just to have objectives rather than each side having their own.

Should 'moving towards an objective' mean moving towards your own side's objective and not include enemy objectives?

We have had discussions about passing through artillery. One of our players quoted D'Erlon's corps at Waterloo had difficulties forming up through the French batteries. Also, given the equipment required to support the guns, limbers, ammunition stacks and so forth, is it really that easy to pass thr...

One of those 'meaning of words' issues. Difficult to phrase it. Someone is bound to say they must change to column if they can go faster!!!

Good, we like simplicity

As far as we can see, the distance moved when fleeing is unaffected by terrain or obstacles. Is this correct?

We have experimented with many games now without using the prolong move for artillery. We believed it was not that common historically and was being used too much in the game. Without it, the games are a little simpler and we have not missed it. We offer dropping it as a thought for version two.

Only a minor point, if reserves enter the table one behind another, would you measure both from the table edge or deduct distance from the one behind to allow for the space occupied by the leading unit?

When orders (attack or engage) require a unit to advance "its full movement rate" towards the enemy it cannot change formation to slow down.
The question we have is whether A class infantry may change to column to speed up?