Turning onto flanks - interpretation

[daveallen]

Okay, pages 76 to 78 allow BGs in side to side edge contact to turn onto the flank of an enemy BG.

I've had this happen to me a couple of times but I'm convinced it shouldn't have been allowed because the BG that turned was already fighting as an overlap.

The final two sentences on page 76 read:

"If they do not move away, [from side edge to side edge contact] no combat occurs unless they are eligible to fight as an overlap. If not, they can engage in melee as follows:"

I read this to mean that BGs already able to fight as an overlap cannot perform the turn on the flank described in the next section because they are already "engaged in melee" (as opposed to being "committed to close combat" which is something else).

Dave Allen

[philqw78]

BG's contributing dice to the melee cannot turn into the flank. You are correct