Bog check for leaving woods-road hex

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A fully tracked AFV attempts to exit a woods-road hex through a woods hexside. It is attempting to enter a grain hex. Is the MP cost 1? If it is a Normal Ground Pressure vehicle would it only pay +1 for Normal Ground Pressure and not the +3 for Entry of woods DRM for the Bog check?
 

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B 13.41 and 13.42. You must spend all or half to enter the Woods portion of the hex, taking a bog check. Then you may continue into grain if you have MP left (and passed the Bog check). The last sentence in 13.42 combined with the next to last sentence in 13.41 are key.
 

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The bog check DRM is dependent on the number of MP you used to enter the Woods portion.
 

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Unless the AFV was in the woods portion of the woods-road hex, i.e., not on the road, to begin with, in which case it would pay only 1 MP to enter the grain hex. And no Bog Check would be required to leave the woods hex.
 

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That is, it was set up in the woods portion of the hex (and B13.421 says it places a TB counter, which is something I didn't know), or has already moved into the woods and taken the bog check.
 

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The Q&A

B13.42
May a vehicle on the road in a woods road hex exit via a non-road hexside by only taking a bog check and paying the COT of the
hex to enter? Or must the vehicle first enter the woods at woods COT and take a bog check prior to being able to exit via a nonroad
hexside?
A. No. Yes.
and

A non-fully-tracked vehicle is on the road in a woods-road hex. It wishes to enter an ADJACENT, connected woods (non-road)
hex. Does this require 2 turns to do so (one turn to enter the woods in the woods-road hex, and another turn to enter the
ADJACENT woods hex)? Assuming no VCA changes, how many Bog Checks are needed?
A. Two turns. Two Bog Checks.
 

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A fully tracked AFV on the road of a woods-road hex attempts to enter a woods hexside of the same hex. It fails it's bog check. Is a trail break counter placed on that hexside at this time? (If the answer is no it would have to take another bog check should it unbog and wish attempt the same move.)
 

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A fully tracked AFV on the road of a woods-road hex attempts to enter a woods hexside of the same hex. It fails it's bog check. Is a trail break counter placed on that hexside at this time?
No.

A wreck or Immobile vehicle on a TB counter removes that TB...
(If the answer is no it would have to take another bog check should it unbog and wish attempt the same move.)
Correct.

Placement of a partial TB effectively means that a fully-tracked AFV has entered the woods portion of a woods-road hex without Bogging, and may therefore exit the hex free of a Bog Check (provided it doesn't make a VCA change before exiting). If the AFV Bogs, no partial TB is placed/retained.

Once on a partial TB, a vehicle may exit a woods-road hex across a non-road hexside without risk of Bog unless it attempts to change VCA before exiting or it enters other Bog terrain.

The rules are silent on what becomes of this partial TB, however. I suspect that it is removed, having served its temporary purpose. IOW, I think that the sole function of a partial TB counter in this situation is to show that the AFV may leave the hex without risk of Bog. Once the vehicle leaves, the TB is removed.

A Q&A could be in order though wrt to the status of this truncated, partial TB.

Q&A B13.421
A Fully Tracked AFV has entered a woods location, placing a partial TB counter and ending its MPh in that location neither immobilized nor as a wreck. A second fully tracked AFV wants to enter the same woods location via the partial TB with the intention to end its MPh there as well. Can the second fully tracked AFV use that partial TB free of a Bog check? Could the second AFV “complete” the partial TB by exiting the woods hex?
A. No to both (B13.4211-.12); place a second partial TB when the second AFV enters (unless the first AFV had bogged, making it Immobile and removing its partial TB).
 

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Q&A submitted

B13.41-.4212

An AFV sets-up/exits a woods-road hex, placing a partial trail break. Is the partial trail break retained or removed after the vehicle exits the hex?
 
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