Pursuit when enemy base removed ?

Polkovnik · Post by **Polkovnik** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:56 pm

We had a situation come up (twice as it happened) last night where a 2 base BG was fighting two enemy BGs (lined up next to each other), one base fighting each. The 2 base BG lost a base in combat so autobroke. Once the base is removed, one of the BGs is thus left with no enemy in contact. Do both the BGs pursue the broken unit or just the one that it in contact with the remaining base ?

Mehrunes · Post by **Mehrunes** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:04 pm

Overlaps do pursue.

Polkovnik · Post by **Polkovnik** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:49 am

Mehrunes wrote:Overlaps do pursue.

Is that correct ? What is the exception under initial pursuit about fighting only as an overlap for then ?

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:53 am

Polkovnik wrote:
Mehrunes wrote:Overlaps do pursue.
Is that correct ? What is the exception under initial pursuit about fighting only as an overlap for then ?

The friendly BG will not pursue if it was fighting a second unbroken enemy BG in frontal contact, but it will pursue if the only other enemy it was fighting was one where the friendly BG was only an overlapper.

Chris

Polkovnik · Post by **Polkovnik** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:58 am

batesmotel wrote:
Polkovnik wrote:
Mehrunes wrote:Overlaps do pursue.
Is that correct ? What is the exception under initial pursuit about fighting only as an overlap for then ?
The friendly BG will not pursue if it was fighting a second unbroken enemy BG in frontal contact, but it will pursue if the only other enemy it was fighting was one where the friendly BG was only an overlapper.

Chris

Yes, but that is covered by the rule that a BG will only pursue if all of its close combat opponents rout. So why is the exception required ?

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:30 pm

We had a situation come up (twice as it happened) last night where a 2 base BG was fighting two enemy BGs (lined up next to each other), one base fighting each. The 2 base BG lost a base in combat so autobroke. Once the base is removed, one of the BGs is thus left with no enemy in contact. Do both the BGs pursue the broken unit or just the one that it in contact with the remaining base ?

Check out the FAQs - number 16 - 2nd example.

Hopefully this should confirm that both BGs pursue.

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:24 pm

Polkovnik wrote:
batesmotel wrote:
Polkovnik wrote: Is that correct ? What is the exception under initial pursuit about fighting only as an overlap for then ?
The friendly BG will not pursue if it was fighting a second unbroken enemy BG in frontal contact, but it will pursue if the only other enemy it was fighting was one where the friendly BG was only an overlapper.

Chris
Yes, but that is covered by the rule that a BG will only pursue if all of its close combat opponents rout. So why is the exception required ?

The exception just clarifies that the enemy BG that you are only fighting against as an overlap is not counted as a close combat opponent in this case even though you are rolling combat dice against it.

Chris

ShrubMiK · Post by **ShrubMiK** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:06 am

I'm not sure this talk of "overlaps" is relevant here anyway. During the combat phase, both enemy BGs were in frontal combat, neither was fighting the 2-base BG as an overlap. The fact that at the time the 2-base BG is moved in rout it only has one base left doesn't change that.

Mehrunes · Post by **Mehrunes** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:55 am

Pretty irrelevant as both produce the same result.

Most people are misreading the bit on page 101.
It only says that you can pursue even if you WERE overlapped, it does not forbid overlapping BGs to pursue.
Overlapping BG count as in close combat, so they pursue broken enemy.