Art De La Guerre

I am surprise at the view (shared apparently by at least Neep and KevinD) that difficult terrain should be treated as impassable by evading chariots. The definition of Impassable terrain (as a type o ...

1 certainly applies as the rule is written. I think we can agree on that.

Thanks Dan.
I was coming from the point of view of trying to understand the diagram on p49, reconciling it with the poi ...

'5 – Evade move' (p48) states
“If during the evade move, the unit encounters a new obstacle in its way it must try to manoeuvre to avoid or interpenetrate it. The manoeuvre is done when it arriv ...

As per the title of this thread, the original post was actually about whether or not an evading unit may execute a slide of up to 1UD in order to finish short of an extended obstacle. Much of the su ...

This is a ‘chicken & egg’ or ‘catch22’ style problem.
When evading, the unit must move its maximum adjusted distance, which may be reduced by passing through terrain.

As soon as the ...

Correct. As Neep says, because the movement allowance is reduced by terrain, the unit is deemed to have moved its full allowance.

Does this mean that the evaders are treated as in the slowing ...

... With respect to interpretation, P39 states
If the movement distance is too short to cross the unit at least partially, or if there is not enough space to adjust the positions of the units involve ...

Correct. As Neep says, because the movement allowance is reduced by terrain, the unit is deemed to have moved its full allowance.

Does this mean that the evaders are treated as in the slowing ...

No. As KevinD says, evading units may not avoid terrain that penalizes its adjusted move distance.
The unit may only change its direction to avoid an obstacle (P48) After any change in orientation, ...

No, I don’t think so. Evaders do not avoid terrain that slows them. They only deviate around terrain they are prohibited from entering, such as impassable, flooded rivers or chariots into difficult. ...

The group AABBB chooses to evade to its rear. To its rear is an obstacle shown as 112233445566 - either units AABB is unable to interpenetrate or terrain that AABB doesn’t have sufficient adjusted e ...

Starting position - A belongs to one player, B & C to the other
A facing down the page, B and C facing up the page (ie A and B in corner to corner contact, C on A's flank but some distance away) ...

I think most of the uncertainty that gave rise to, or was exposed by, this thread came from reorientation being driven by the ZoC rather than by the most threatening enemy per se.

If the errata not ...

Firstly, many thanks to the various contributors above. Much of my confusion on this matter has now been addressed.

From here I’ll just note that I think we need to be careful re the interpretat ...

@ Zoltan - Agreed. However the evasion process is the same for each.

When retreating to exit a ZoC, p.37 (official errata amendment) says, "A unit that attempts to evade when it has an enem ...