Ruins and Large/Huge Units: A movement question

[K/H_Addict]

okay, so i was thinking yesterday. There is a thread about units being able to sneak under a bridge, so long as they dont end their move under it. To my knowledge, this is legit.

In the official rule book, 2 figures can be engaged with a ruin between only if both units have i height greater than 6. This led me to wonder, if figures can crawl under bridges, can they also step over ruins, if they are tall enough?

[toddrew]

okay, so i was thinking yesterday. There is a thread about units being able to sneak under a bridge, so long as they dont end their move under it. To my knowledge, this is legit.

In the official rule book, 2 figures can be engaged with a ruin between only if both units have i height greater than 6. This led me to wonder, if figures can crawl under bridges, can they also step over ruins, if they are tall enough?

Allowing figures to duck under bridges, overhangs, etc. is a house rule (and reasonable one at that :) ) - not an official rule; in fact it is specifically not allowed (I'll hunt up the reference in the manual when I've got a moment.) EDIT: here it is: (Page 11, advanced rules manual 2nd edition) Overhangs: An overhang exists when one or more tiles are above another tile with space in between. Figures that are small enough to do so may move under overhangs.

Feel free to house rule 'stepping over', but generally it's not allowed, except to step over the bridge rail of RttFF using two movement to go over the short side (inside), 3 movement to go over the taller side (outside).

[netherspirit]

(though I think I read somewhere that one can step over the bridge rail using one movement - was that a house rule, too?)

It's 2. :) Its in the RTTFF rulebook. I have been meaning to scan those...

[toddrew]

Thanks, nether. I'll now edit my edit :)

[netherspirit]

Well now I have an edit. :P

Its 2 from the back, 3 from the front. Guess I should have kept reading.

[K/H_Addict]

so, would this be accepted my the general community?

[Agent Minivann]

I think the height greater than 6 thing for the ruins and engagement imply that it's OK if you have a move greater than or equal to 7. Same rationale as the bridge walls. Of course I can plant hands and "jump" over a wall that is shorter than me, so I think it is a reasonable house rule.

[toddrew]

so, would this be accepted by the general community?

A poll may help you to find out :) I don't know about the general community, but definitely sounds like a reasonable house rule could be constructed - though in most cases, likely the movement would be less to just go around the ruin (depending on the rule, of course), but maybe to avoid engagements or if there is a long wall of ruins, it would be advantageous to do so.