Slitherine

Had a routing BG obstructed by enemy.

It could avoid the enemy by a 1 base shift, but then would be obstructed by friends, therefore it can't shift.

Instead it would be destroyed because it could not avoid enemy.

Did I get this right, or did I miss something when speed-reading the rules?

I don't think the router could avoid the enemy.

Rob

if it can't avoid everything by shifting it doesn't shift

I don't know because it would burst through friends.

Sounds like you got it right to me

I agree that you were right.

If you can't avoid all obstructions with a shift then no shift is allowed.

if you can't shift and end up in contact with enemy the unit is destroyed. Tough break for you but it happens in a crowded battlefield situation.

Does this mean you can destroy a routing enemy unit with the buttocks of death?

For example, this Gaul unit, which is also in flank contact off-screen to the left with another legion. If it routs, would my blue-shield legion prevent it from routing and destroy it?

This is a completed game now, I'm just asking hypothetically.



Full size image here: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_NLgslFM7K3M/SwvaO ... G_3964.JPG

That depends if the white shielded unit is in the way as well. If it can drop a file or shift as per evading to get past it will. If it cannot it is destroyed. But hardly the buttocks of death. Big photo. Even on my 32" screen I can't see it all.

philqw78 wrote:That depends if the white shielded unit is in the way as well. If it can drop a file or shift as per evading to get past it will. If it cannot it is destroyed. But hardly the buttocks of death. Big photo. Even on my 32" screen I can't see it all.

sorry I adjusted the size, I didn't realize it was so big.

Thanks for the explanation. Since my blue-shield unit is only blocking one stand, the enemy unit could avoid it, but it's not going to get by the white-coat unit with only a single stand contraction since the white unit covers three stands of the Gauls. I guess with the right roll however, that it might not make it all the way to the white unit, and could, possibly rally the following turn. Of course if it fails, it's boom time.

This is another photo of the same unit, from the other side: http://lh5.ggpht.com/_NLgslFM7K3M/SwvaY ... G_4004.JPG

No way to rally it - unless all enemy units obligingly move more than 6MU away from it.