Assaulting the rear of a square

[Sean Clark]

Just brushing up my limited understanding for the weekend.

In the rules clarification above, it talks about an odd situation where a cavalry unit assaulted the rear of a square. It then lost the assault and morale caused it to fall back.

Fall backs are towards your own base edge. However, if an assaulter loses an assault it returns to its original square.

I'm taking it a fall back due to morale, and a withdraw due to fight outcome are two different things.

In the stated example, if the cavalry had won, does the losing unit suffer 6 extra casualties because it can't fall back to its base edge?

[martin goddard]

Here is what I think . I am rusty.

Assaulters fall back to their square or remain in their square. The figures were not placed in the target square at any point.

A morale fall back will suffer from the 6 hit penalty as it can only fall back toward it's own base edge.

If no fall back toward base edge available for fight losers, then they stay still and suffer 6 hits.


martin