Re: What way does the Cheval de Frise go?
 

The two pictures you are referring to in the manual are pictures of the elements themselves, they do not bear any positioning elements. Admittedly, it is misleading, but there is nothing around the two figures that say "this is how the defense will be seen from your drive station to the enemy's barter"

Figure 2-1 clearly shows the cheval de frise orientation with respect to the rest of the field.

Re: What way does the Cheval de Frise go?
 

I think there's some miscommunication and confusion going on about the cheval de frise.
There's no way to take the cheval de frise that's shown in 2-5 and 2-7 and put it in a field and have it look like the drawing in 2-1. Figures 2-5 and 2-7 show up-down-up-down for both sides, and 2-1 shows the opposite.

If the cheval de frise goes up-down-up-down on one side, it goes up-down-up-down on the other side too. There's no way to put it in backward, and rotating it 180 degrees will not change the orientation. We don't need to see the orientation of the defense with respect to the field to know that there is an inconsistency.

Re: What way does the Cheval de Frise go?
 

As Mike posted, the Q&A confirmed that the Game Manual and official field drawings are correct:

So the panels are oriented as so:

Re: What way does the Cheval de Frise go?
 

The field drawings and manual are NOT correct. They are inconsistent. There's no possible way for this cheval de frise
to look like this .

Rotating the cheval de frise doesn't change the orientation!

Re: What way does the Cheval de Frise go?
 

Yep. Unless you're looking at a mirror, the cheval de frise is always up/down/up/down or down/up/down up, regardless of how you flip it. There has been a lot of inconsistency between officially posted documents. Images that I've found:

Down/up/down/up:

Team version drawings, page 20.


Field component drawings, page 50.


Field assembly drawings, page 1.


Game manual, page 3 (section 1.2), page 8 (section 2).

Other: the google cardboard images

Up/down/up/down:

Game manual, page 11 (section 2.2.2.1).

Other: the old game manual entire field diagrams, the one page game description

Re: What way does the Cheval de Frise go?
 

You are correct, thanks for point this out. We have submitted a follow-up question to the Q&A:

I will post an update here once this question has been answered.

Re: What way does the Cheval de Frise go?
 

And we got an answer:

Meaning that this is the correct orientation: