Make Way!

[Lion of Flanders]

All Sage Ordoians:

 

Has the "Make Way" rule been clarified as to wether or not you could move a character to another spot in close combat and displace another character? (and in so doing remove that character from combat).

 

I would interpret the rule as "no you could not" for a number of reasons.

 

Has this been established somewhere? And if not, how do y'all play it?

[Murphy'sLawyer]

Page 100 it says a character can make way by moving a "Rank and File model including command", but it does not include characters in that rule. So no you can not.

 

Haven't seen anything else that contradicts this.

[MexicanNinja]

No, the only way to move characters around, once combat has started is by performing a combat reform. However, you may not reform in such away to be out of base contact with any enemy characters you were originally in contact with. Also, you may not take models out of combat from the enemy unit. It's hard to explain without showing a visual.

[Kremmet]

Well, there is one more way and that's if characters were hidden in the second rank due to characters/command being in the front.  If the champ/another character dies, a second rank character must immediately take its place.

[MexicanNinja]

Well, there is one more way and that's if characters were hidden in the second rank due to characters/command being in the front.  If the champ/another character dies, a second rank character must immediately take its place.

That's not using the make rule though.  That follows a different rule which states that a character must always move to the front rank, if he is able.  The only army which may ignore this rule is Bretonnia.

[Murphy'sLawyer]

I believe the LoF was just asking about the Make Way rule not moving a character around in close combat. But that does cover all of it I believe.

[MexicanNinja]

Yes, sorry Lion, I went on about a totally different rule.  You have it 100% correct.  A character may not make way if the model they are going to replace is another character.  Characters may only make way with rank-and-file models.

[ClassicFlava]

also if a character is already in base to base he cannot make way.  Say you wanted to move him around in the front rank to be in base to base with a specific model you could only do it with a combat reform.  

[Lion of Flanders]

All:: thanks for the responses. That's pretty much what I thought in that I thought there was a general rule that essentially said that you couldn't take a character out of combat via reform or whatever....but there was always the possibility that I was thinking of an older rule set.