Mixed Lines

A unit armed with both missile weapons and melee weapons can employ this formation, in which all the missile-firing figures are grouped together with the melee troops arrayed around them or in front of them.

In a typical arrangement, troops using melee weapons are set up toward the front of the unit, with the missile troops in the rear. While the front rank is engaged in melee combat, the missile troops (assuming they are not in contact with enemy figures) can fire their weapons during the same turn.

The missile troops are not allowed to fire at enemy figures that are in base-to-base contact with friendly figures, but they can take pass-through fire against a foe before it contacts the unit the missile troops are in, without hampering the front rank's ability to meet the enemy in melee.