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After a bit of a break (mostly due to Saga: Age of Chivalry coming out), we had a chance to return to Brethren. We used the Dark Ages army lists this time, for a Viking v Irish battle: https://blog.notasnark.net/2025/03/battle-for-the-chapel.html As before, some questions were raised. • There's a rule that says shooting into a wooded area gives a -1 to hit. But nothing seems to be said about shooting through a woods to units on the other side. Do woods block line of sight to the other side, or is it just a simple -1? • Once again, we were confused about who fights who in a big melee, especially where there is a big difference in number of figures. Do you have any explanations for how players go about deciding which figure is attacking which figure, when there are multiple possibilities and the decision greatly favours one side or the other? It was a good game, but we're still trying to get out of the mindset of large units v individual figures, which also led to some confusion.

Can a Normal model move into combat or charge without using the heroic charge move?

We had a second game today (first real, non-solo game), and after the answers to yesterday's questions, we managed to complete a whole game. It was a lot of fun, though we had a few misunderstandings. which were mostly down to us. But we have more questions! • Can a hero without a shield give an order to figures with shields to form a shield wall? • If a figure has a javelin and sword, can it switch between them in a turn (such as using the javelin to loose, then using the sword to defend when attacked)? • In a melee, if B is supporting A, and A gets pushed back, does B also get pushed back (assuming A has a clear path to move back)? • If you have multiple figures all in base to base contact during a melee, how do you decide who is fighting who? If you had something like the following setup: Let's say A is a hero, and Red wants to pile everything into fighting A. How do you decide which Red figures can fight A (or support those fighting A), and which have to fight B? Does Red or Blue get to decide whether C or F fights B? What if B wants to fight both C and F? Can it force that? We did get something like this happen. In our case, everyone moved individually, rather than charging as a group. When Red have great axes, it makes a big difference whether someone attacks or supports. Thanks! My full write up of the game is here btw: https://blog.notasnark.net/2024/12/brethren-at-the-well.html