Slitherine

Clarification, P. 94

Battle groups within 6 MUs of the point of arrival of enemy flank marchers obey the following rules:
o Artillery and battle wagons are destroyed and removed from the table, their crews having fled and dispersed. (This does not cause friends to take a cohesion test).
o Supply camps are assumed to have been sacked, even if fortified.
o Other types make an evade move perpendicularly away from the side table edge, even if of a type not normally able to evade. They do so as if evading in the direction of a charge from that direction (see the Impact Phase section).

There is currently no exemption for being already in combat. We are considering this.

I quite like the re-use of the charge rules - using a familar mechanism for a relatively uncommon and therefore probably unfamilar situation can only be a good thing.

The in-combat situation is interesting. I can see a very limited scope for cheese by using combats to prevent a flank march access to the table. But on the other hand if you allow combatants to evade when a flank march arrives it negates much of the effect of a flank march as a deterrent to the enemy from attacking on that flank.

I would favour disallowing combatants to evade.

How about:

Battle groups within 6 MUs of the point of arrival of enemy flank marchers obey the following rules:
o Unless already in close combat, artillery and battle wagons are destroyed and removed from the table, their crews having fled and dispersed. (This does not cause friends to take a cohesion test).
o Supply camps are assumed to have been sacked, even if fortified.
o Unless already in close combat, other types make an evade move perpendicularly away from the side table edge, even if of a type not normally able to evade. They do so as if evading in the direction of a charge from that direction (see the Impact Phase section).

Note that although logically troops in combat might be expected to be more affected by the sudden arrival of a flank march than unengaged ones, these rules changes are to avoid the complication of trying to work out how to evade troops already in combat, and the issue of what the troops in combat with them would do.

The change to the first bullet is merely for consistency with the 3rd.

Looks good to me.