Elémentaux d'eau: "contrecharger" toujours de flanc

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Water Elementals – Strider makes these elementals a lot more consistent compared to their other brothers, while defense 5 and regeneration places them between earth and fire in terms of survivability. They don’t have great damage output, however, and even with defense 5 and regen, their -/17 nerve is pretty easy to one-shot. Their speed 7 allows for some particularly sneaky surges as you can withdraw, pivot 90 degrees and move 7” and usually be further than one inch away from the enemy that you were engaged with. But if you combine Water Elmentals with the Wine of Elvenkind item, magic happens:



1. The Water Elementals disengage.
2. The Water Elementals side step 3.5”, and pivot slightly so that they will hit the corner of the unit and not a facing. Note this still allows them to stay a full inch away and have their leaderpoint in the flank from enemy units with a frontage of 125mm or less. [1]
3. The Water Elementals get surged forward, and hit just the corner, which allows them to use their leaderpoint at the beginning of the surge to determine which flank they align to.



[1] Mathematically, the water elementals can move 88.9mm sideways (3.5”). In order to get their leader point to the flank of a unit that’s 125mm wide, they only need to move 87.9mm. 125/2=62.5, but you need to get one inch further than their edge to be in the flank , 1 inch=25.4mm, 62.5+25.4=87.9. How do we know that we need to be 1” or more to be in the flank?

The yellow lines mark a right angle triangle with the arc of the unit being the hypotenuse. If you remember your geometry, a 45 degree angle on a right angle triangle makes both legs of the triangle equal in length. So being 1” away from the unit means your leader point only has to be greater than 1” from the units edge for it to be in the flank.  Turns out our math teachers were right, we will use geometry in life.

The Wine of Elvenkind is the only way to do this due to the rules of surging. It doesn’t matter what flank your leaderpoint is in if you hit a facing. So merely sidestepping would mean you still hit the front face flush, which puts you back into a frontal charge. But if you can see that you will contact only a corner, then you align to wherever your leaderpoint is when you began the surge. Nimble gives you a pivot that allows you to hit just a corner.

Résumé en français: en leur mettant l'objet qui donne agilité et grâce à leur mouvement de 7, plutôt que de contre-charger il faut les désengager, puis les décaler de la moitié de leur mouvement sur le côté, l'agilité permet alors de les faire pivoter un chouillat. Ainsi il se retrouvent avec le leader point dans le flanc de l'unité ennemie et un surge va les faire charger un coin. Donc ils s'alignent dans l'arc où se trouvait le leader point avant le surge, soit le flanc. Et pan, la "contrecharge" qui fait mal. Et ça marche sur toute unité qui possède un front inférieur ou égal à 125mm (5 pouces)

Merci Éric. J’avait entendu parler aux espagnols. Bof, je trouve très cher comme unité avec le nimble mais c’est bien de savoir si jamais quelqu’un joue ça en face

Plus généralement se méfier d'unités lentes avec nimble quand il y a une source de Surge à proximité car ça peut s'appliquer sur d'autres unités.

Par exemple:
- Undead Wyrm qui a M10 et Nimble de base;
- Air Elementals et Greater Air Elementals, idem;
etc.

Tu pourrais même t'amuser à le faire en cauchemars car tu disposes d'unités shambling/nimble avec un bon Mouvement. Si tu as 20 points à dépenser pour le tome of darkness sur un perso ça suffit car il n'y a pas besoin d'un grand surge.