A much vexed problem indeed.? Most of the games we play are horse and musket period (sadly not using TFL rules), and one problem we encounter is the battalion flank anchored on a table edge.? The rough and ready solution I've come up with is to say that a frontal attack on such a battalion is to be fought out? as if it were a flank attack.? At the very least, this forces the defender to refuse the flank in question, or to move his flank deeper onto the table.? Not, as I say, a very elegant solution, but at least an idea.? I've recently been able to expand my table from 5' by 6' to 5' by 12', and this has opened up the possibility of restricting initial deployment to the central 6', with the possibility of subsequent off table arrival of forces on either flank.? We are also considering the use of strategic movement on the table, something that we have never used before but are considering now, although it poses its own problems of telegraphing your intentions to the enemy in too great detail.? But ideas are bubbling to the surface.? Anyway, such is my 2 cents.
