Biblical Update - Firing At Chargers

ONE rule I have dropped from Neil Thomas's biblical section in Ancient & Medieval Wargaming concerns what happens immediately preceding a melee.

Thomas stipulates that a charge must be declared at the start of the half-turn by the attacking player and that, if contact is successfully made, the defending unit, if armed with javelins, may shoot, provided the enemy started further than 8cm away.

I am dropping the need for a charge to be declared, and I am extending the right to use defensive fire to bow-armed troops, again provided the enemy starts more than 8cm away.

Assyrian close-order archers will be among those benefitting from the increased right to defensive fire