Hi!
I think this can be accommodated. It makes sense you can cross if empty,
but then again if its empty it's because it was assaulted and probably
an engineer made a bridge for it already.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Kerry [mailto:steve_kerry_uk_at_...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:16 AM
To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Core rules: fortifications
For simplicity, it is probably easier to say that
cavalry cannot cross an occupied trench. I would stil
like to see them cross unoccupied trenches, with a
roll to see if they make it across safely.
Steve
--- "Millett, George"
<George.Millett_at_...> wrote: > Not just
horses but cavalry also includes other
> types of mounts than horses
> particularly the warboars used by snakebites a
> species that is definitely
> not renowned for its ability to jump obstacles.
> Especially if the Mekboy has
> got his hands on it and turned them into Cyboars
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Ramos [mailto:primarch_at_...]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 1:12 AM
> To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Core rules:
> fortifications
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Granted the trench would be narrow, but we must deal
> in averages, on
> average a horse will never make it across a trench
> alive, and so might
> as well NOT let them do it. The change of actually
> crossing is so small
> that's it's not worth mentioning.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Kerry [mailto:steve_kerry_uk_at_...]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:29 PM
> To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Core rules:
> fortifications
>
> > I remember how historians bagged the
> > Kubrick film "Paths of Glory" because the trenches
> > were too wide. He made them
> > wide so he could run his old style camera dolley
> > along it, but even then they
> > weren't all that wide.
>
> The same criticism was made of Star Trek, that the
> corridors on the starship Enterprise were much too
> wide. They also were made that size simply so the
> camera dolly could travel along them.
>
> In reality, I would expect a trench to be just wide
> enough for two men to squeeze past each other (hence
> the name 'slit trench'). If it is wide enough for a
> car to drive down the middle, it is no longer a
> trench.
>
> > I've certainly seen photos of
> > actual trenches that were
> > narrow enough for horses to jump.
>
> A lot of WW1 trenches were narrow enough for a man
> to
> jump!
>
> Steve
>
>
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