Height of Bocage/Hedges/Hedgerows final ruling

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The height of Bocage/Hedges/Hedgerows, hereafter called "hedges," was not explicitly stated in the rules and there has been many threads about this issue.  So I asked Mike Benninghof for an official ruling on this and also asked that it be consistent across the series for simplicity sake.  Although he realizes that in real life many of these hedges are not 20 meters tall, the game effect is that they need to be, so his answer is a "design-for-effect" answer and that, for game purposes, they are 20 meters tall. he also notes that the notes for the original design intent of the game series was that the hedges are to be 20 meters tall.

Can we add this to the annotated rules?

Here is the email exchange:

My email asking the question: 

Hi Dr. Mike:

I hope all is well with you.  I'm about to play a Beyond Normandy scenario against someone, and the heights of the hedges always seem to perplex us as it is not stated anywhere as to what it is.  We are assuming that the height is 20 meters just like woods.  Leonard posted the attached document some years ago that shows that Bocage hedges in Normandy 44 are 20 meters tall.  Where that came from, I don't know.  

Can we get an official ruling on this?  I recommend that they be 20 meters tall across all the games as it makes it simple to remember.

Thanks, 

Fred

His response:

Good to hear from you, hadn't in a while. 

I didn't design those rules or the games that include them. The bocage walls themselves are not anything close to 20 meters high. But that's not the same as their game effect.


Digging out Knipple's original draft, it's written to imply that your 20-meter suggestion was the intent (the game design pre-dates the current rules mechanism). Go with that.