Slitherine

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 ?

Overlaps do pursue.

Mehrunes wrote:Overlaps do pursue.

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

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

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 ?

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.

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

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.

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.