Art De La Guerre

[Mike Bennett]

You can only make an interpenetration if your front edge emerges out of the other side What happens when an evader meets a freind it could normally interpenetrate but lacks the movement to emerge
[list=]Stops infront of the friend
Treats the freind as an impassable obstacle and diverts with a slide or wheel
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[SteveR]

Great question.

It is the latter.

See the diagram on page 49. In this case it is enemies in front of it but the movement should be the same I think.

[Zoltan]

[Mike Bennett]

With friends they could make the full move, then adjust positions;
1. If the front gets out they are pushed forward out the far side
2. Otherwise they are pushed back

With enemy this does not arise, the only option to avoid is to slide or wheel.

[Zoltan]

@Mike. I was just clarifying that: Units that start interpenetrating friends but have insufficient move to at least start exiting those friends, do NOT follow any rules contained in Adjusting Positions section.

Instead, they are NOT permitted to start an interpenetration (and must do something else in situations where they MUST expend their total movement allowance.)

[Mike Bennett]

Interesting, I have now seen a few cases where this would change whether evaders are caught or not.

1. They get away as they can slide out of the path of the charger, especially if the friends are parallel to them and they have a free choice of which way they slide
2. They get caught as by starting a wheel at 1ud from their friends they finish up closer to the charger.

[SteveR]

Hi Mike,

Remember that the chargers can (usually) choose their path. So if the evaders will be forced to go in a certain direction they can anticipate where the evaders will end up.

If the evade roll does not preclude this.

[Ramses II]

I agree with Steve and Zoltan that the friendly unit represents an obstacle if it cannot be fully interpenetrated (for whatever reason). 

As such the evaders must slide then wheel as usual when trying to escape. 

[Zoltan]

[Mike Bennett]

[KevinD]

Yep, Mike. Be very careful with LI evading in front of deep friendly units. You might end with them rlooing down, being caught, blocking shooting in the subsequent shooting phase, destroyed automatically in the melee phase and the enemy then pursuing the destroyed LI into contact with the “obstacle”.

[SteveR]

You are correct Kevin - BUT

If the LI have to wheel to try to avoid the obstacle that can result in your charging unit exposing a flank to the enemy as it is forced to conform to destroy the LI.

And if it pursues into a line of enemy it might be fighting an enemy with two supports.

[Andy Fyfe]

[Neep]

It is likely that the pursuing unit will be in the ZoC of the friendly obstacle. (ZoC extends through interpenetratable LI.) In this case, the pursuer does not conform.

[Andy Fyfe]