Art De La Guerre

[AlanCutner]

Another query. A friendly unit is in combat with enemy to its front and flank, and is being led by a general in combat. The unit to its front is destroyed, and it turns to face the flanking unit.

Does this count as the same combat and thereforethe general remains in combat. Or is it a new combat, allowing the general to withdraw from combat?

[Hazelbark]

I believe the melee is ongoing and therefore the general stays fighting in the front.

[Commodore]

Yes it is the same combat, the general is still involved.
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[AlanCutner]

Thanks. Thats how I thought it.

A subsidiary question. If a unit is fighting to its front only, kills the opposing enemy unit and then conforms to an enemy overlap, is that also a continuing combat?

[Maverick2909]

Yes still the same combat. No impact or other beginning combat factors apply.

[Ramses II]

Umm, I am less sure about the answer here. 

There is a subtle difference between being “in melee” p50, and being “engaged in melee” by the main unit to its front. Since the unit that it “is engaged in melee” has been destroyed, I believe the general may be disengaged before the unit is turned to flank. 

To the second question, under similar logic P55 suggests that units in corner to corner contact (having destroyed the unit to its front) are no longer in melee, so while the unit may slide to conform the general may be disengaged. 

[Zoltan]

P.24 "Once engaged in melee the commander remains so until the unit is eliminated or flees..."

This could be read two ways:

1.Once engaged in melee the commander remains so until the FRIENDLY unit HE IS ATTACHED TO is eliminated or flees - if this is the correct interpretation then it appears to be missing the scenario where the opponent is eliminated/flees; under this interpretation the commander fighting with a victorious unit seems doomed never to become unengaged. Obviously, this doesn't seem to make sense.

2.Once engaged in melee the commander remains so until the ENEMY unit HE IS FIGHTING AGAINST is eliminated or flees - if this is the correct interpretation then it appears to say that the commander is NO LONGER in melee once the enemy has been eliminated/flees. Thus, the commander would NOT automatically remain engaged in melee when the unit he is with conforms to a remaining opponent during the continuation of an existing melee. Of course the player could chose to re-engage the commander.

[lionelrus]

I think the second is right.
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