Bridge Battles, Yea or Nea

[antisocialmunky]

I thought wedge was supposed to reduce your unit's defence score quite significantly?

On the other hand, wierd things do happen when wedge meets something in square. The square unit comes to a halt and its front row fights just the man at the sharp end of your wedge. If he dies, others take his place but basically, much of the front row of the square unit comes to a halt and sits idle while the fight between unit leaders takes place, whereas it should be dozens of combats at a time. I can see how, even at the cost of weakened defence factors, it can prolong the meleé for quite some time, as your attrition rate is vastly slowed down. I shall have to try this for myself.

Presumably you have to be careful what unit you choose to do this. Some might panic if their captain gets killed and others aren't too fussed.

Wedge has it's uses, for quick redeployment into a compact formations(H Archers) so you can run away. Wedge is only good on the charge and shouldn't be left in prolonged melee due to the defense penalty and the surrounded on three sides penalty for the man in front.

That's about it. Though... a while ago, I wrote some conjecture on whether or not it's possible to use wedge to attack seems between two units to get flanking bonuses for the wedge unit. If anything comes of that, I'm sure it would be interesting.