Slitherine

An interesting situation occurred in our North Island Convention here in New Zealand over the weekend.

A broken unit was within 4" of its DC and the CC. The unit failed its recovery when the DC attempted to recover but the CC then tried and succeeded. Some players were of the thought that the unit is removed after the first attempt as the rules state that if it fails to recover it is removed, however they also say a unit can have two recovery attempts if in range of the DC and CC.

Is it:
a) Unit only gets one attempt and is removed if unsuccessful.

or

b) Unit has two attempts to recover if both DC and CC in range and is removed if both fail.


By the way there were 14 participants which made this convention the largest Napoleonic competition in NZ for about 20 years! Lots of interest was gathered from other players with some imressed comments.

The general rule is that you can make multiple attempts to recover (cohesion). But if Broken only ONE attempt. Check the table on p 70 ("1 attempt only") plus the text above that you mentioned, which seems pretty definite about it: "If the attempt fails, the unit is permanently removed from the table."

{Corrected}If a Cavalry unit recovers and is later re-broken, it gets another attempt with a commander.

KendallB wrote:By the way there were 14 participants which made this convention the largest Napoleonic competition in NZ for about 20 years! Lots of interest was gathered from other players with some imressed comments.

good stuff.

- and Kendall won it! (with an 1807 Russian Cavalry force).
My French Imperial Guard Corps was sadly recule'd in all but one of the games. Grumble grumble...

If the unit recovers and is later re-broken, it gets another attempt with a commander.

Page 69: "This (becoming spent) occurs for any infantry or cavalry unit that has rallied after being broken."
and "A spent infantry unit that breaks a 2nd time is destroyed and is removed at the end of its outcome move."

In other words - You can only recover from broken once with infantry.