Jon and I played a not-real game of
WHFB 8th ed last night. By that I mean we picked 3 random units each, threw some terrain on the table and went throught the mechanics of the game to see how it played. We'll try a real game on Wednesday next week.
Now, at one point a unit of 10 savage orc boar boyz charged a unit of 10 night runners. The night runners chose to stand and shoot killing 1 orc. They killed another in combat but lost the combat and ran. The orcs pursued and killed them off only to crash into a forest.
Now at this point the orcs have to take a dangerous terrain test. 5 are in the trees and they manage to fail 3 of the 5 tests! At this point it looks like they have triggered a panic test: the unit has lost 25% of the models it started the phase with [[Question 1 - were we corect?]]
The orcs fail the test and flee but the rules do not cover the direction in which to flee so we had them turn round and run directly away from the trees (as they did the damage) [[Question 2 - did we get this right?]]
Because they are fleeing cavalry in woods, the unit has to take dangerous terrain tests again and another 2 die (we couldn't see anything in the rulebook to prevent this, that is, multiple terrain tests in the same phase).
So the net result of the charge was that a 10 strong unit of savage orc cavalry ended the phase having suffered more casualties from the local flora than from the enemy unit they charged and ended up fleeing with 70% loses despite being victorious in combat.
Jon then shot one more orc meaning they could never rally and off they went.
Very funny and very orcy but did we ge the rules right? I think we did...