contact with camp in JAP

[domblas]

yesterday at the last turn i came into contact with the ennemy unfortified camp during the JAP. I did so in pursuing an ennemy routed BG that passed throught it. Was it looted or should i wait my next manoeuvre phase?

[TERRYFROMSPOKANE]

Page 88 (Melee Phase): "An unfortified camp contacted by an enemy battle groups counts as immediately sacked..."

I think this happens immediately in any phase where you contact an enemy unfortified camp.

Terry G.

[bbotus]

And page 20 says the same thing
Page 67, 2nd column, 2nd - says that an evader who meets a camp turns 90 degrees and wheels to move parallel to the camp.
But page 108 second bullet, 1st column says routers can pass though its own unfortified camp.
Page 22 says a camp is not a BG.
Page 78 says troops move into contact with the enemy camp in the maneuver phase. This is not a charge.

My read on the RAW is that the camp is sacked immediately even though it is not the maneuver phase. But the corollary question is: Does the pursuer stop as soon as it contacts the camp and loots the camp until the next JAP, or does it get to continue pursuit of the routing unit?

[deadtorius]

I would think you stop to loot, plunder being more enticing than free slaughter. Besides which the routers have obviously run off the edge of the world and have ceased to exist so there is nothing to distract you from looting

[gozerius]

Once in contact with a camp, you remain there until successfully passing a CMT to stop looting in the JAP. Since pursuing routers during the JAP occurs after the roll to stop looting, you are stuck there until passing the CMT in a subsequent JAP.

[domblas]

thx for ur answers. So my opponent army broke until the clock rang.

Ed