I am deeply saddened by the decision to not allow firing on the charge. As I illustrated in my previous post shooting on the charge is an integral part of making melee viable as a way to win a linebattle, and by dis-allowing it you are essentially turning it into a shooting event, and due the random nature of shooting it's almost a toin-tossing contest under the ruleset.
The idea of adding a ruleset is to keep things, fair as well as make the event more interesting that just unorganized play. I find that draconian rule fails to do either, it stacks the deck heavily in favour of people who are good at shooting and bad at melee, furthermore by making it shooting only you take out the whole adrenaline pumping melee aspect out of the game so on that front the championship is less fun. Since this intends to be a competitive championship the lack of fairness impossed by this rule will seriously harm the regiments that favour melee and as such this is de facto a tournament for shooting not linebattles.
What other similar rules are going to be introduced? Forced double lines? Forced walking? Melee in formation? Only volley fire? No reverse sloping?
Instead of adding draconian rules into the tournmanet in order to artificially make regiments that are unable to melee be able to compete one should make a different dressage event where referees judge the speed, prettyness and execution of firing drills and manouvres of regiments. And as an effect of these destructive rules out of competitive play.
The bottomline is: With pointblanking regiments have to be more well rounded in order to be able to win, which certainly should be desirable in a competitive event. If you allow this rule to stand you're making
biathlon into cross-country skiing.
