Hopefully, this will be the first of many Old World tactica articles. With a few Old timers on the team who had a love of Warhammer Fantasy, we thought it may be worth to provide some tactics that were used in previous editions.

Unit Redirect

A ‘Redirect’ is used to force your opponent to make an uncomfortable decision when making their movement. The image below shows two units. An enemy ‘Hammer’ unit (a unit designed to be effective at clearing most enemy units in combat) shown in red, and a friendly ‘Chaff’ unit shown in purple.

The idea behind the redirect tactic is to tie up or ideally destroy the opponents hammer unit with as little points commitment from your own force and hopefully leave the opponents key unit out of position. In the case of the image above, you need your chaff unit to be as little points as possible.

In your opponent’s turn, they have a number of options;

1) They can attempt to charge the chaff unit with their hammer. This would resort in the Hammer unit being out of position and possibly vulnerable to a counter charge from another unit.

2) They can choose to ignore the chaff unit and continue their movement while hoping to remove the chaff with shooting or magic. This has the benefit of both committing their ranged and/or magic attacks to remove a cheap chaff unit. Plus, if they’re unsuccessful in destroying your unit, it leaves the Hammer unit open to a flank charge.

Warmachines

It’s also useful for engaging war machines. March your chaff unit up to the enemy war machines, and they either have to shoot the chaff and save your other units for another turn or suffer a charge.

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