Actually, thinking through and making it general the follwoing could be a decent first stab at some “ladder combat” rules:
If attacking from the bottom of the ladder (attacker is assumed to be climbing up)
- Attacking model loses charge bonus
- Melee combatant climbing up the ladder gets -1 melee for every height value of the ladder greater than the model height
- Melee combatant climbing up the ladder gets -1 armour when defending
If attacking from the topof the ladder (attacker is assumed to be climbing down)
- Attacking model loses charge bonus
- Melee combatant at the bottom of the ladder gets +1 melee
- Melee combatant on the ladder gets -1 armour when defending
Basically, fighting whilst hanging on to a ladder is really tricky, but possible!
What do you think?