Slitherine

I have a unit of light horse in contact with the enemy's fortified camp. So far I have been unsuccessful in attempting to sack it.

Am I free to move away in the next move phase, or am I deemed to be in combat and therefore have to wait til it finishes?

richnz wrote:I have a unit of light horse in contact with the enemy's fortified camp. So far I have been unsuccessful in attempting to sack it.

Am I free to move away in the next move phase, or am I deemed to be in combat and therefore have to wait til it finishes?

IMO you are free, it is not considered as a combat . the rule must say somewhere: once the camp is sacked... a CMT is required to move again. So ur free unless you sack it.

Yep, can move away unless you get in and then you need to send the duty officer in to close the bar.

Here is the reference with the semi-official never made it into the FAQ answer from the authors:

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shall wrote:Here's the authors view on this one ... short errata to follow to make sacking only possible with a frontal contact.


1. Troops sacking a camp need a CMT to break off - sacking happens immediately on contact for unfortified camps
2. Troops attempting to sack a fortified camp are locked once they break in, but they are not locked before that.
3. They are not in close combat as defined in the rules glossary - which is a handy way to separate them from other combats as I believe breaking off from a defended wall is very do-able for all troops (have put this little bit onto the stream)
4. They can therefore make normal moves if say they wanted to give up on trying to break in but need to take CMT's as usual for any moves normally requiring them.
5. While troops have their front bases in front edge contact they get a roll to break in (we are going to issue an errata to make it front edge only as this is what we intended).

Cheers

Si