BattleSchool
Elder Member
Two situations:
A) A DFF attack immobilizes a truck and breaks its Passenger HS ADJACENT to a GO enemy squad.
Must the broken HS rout during the RtPh? If so, will it be eliminated for failure to rout?
Or must the HS surrender to the enemy squad?
B) Related question. Assume the truck is a Marder and its crew was broken during DFF. Is the answer any different than for the previous question? If so, why?
I don't think that A20.21 has any bearing on the answers because neither the HS nor the crew are Infantry at the beginning of their RtPh. But the word "during" in A20.21 made me wonder if I was missing something.
As I understand it, both broken units would be eliminated for FTR. If not, why?
A) A DFF attack immobilizes a truck and breaks its Passenger HS ADJACENT to a GO enemy squad.
Must the broken HS rout during the RtPh? If so, will it be eliminated for failure to rout?
Or must the HS surrender to the enemy squad?
B) Related question. Assume the truck is a Marder and its crew was broken during DFF. Is the answer any different than for the previous question? If so, why?
I don't think that A20.21 has any bearing on the answers because neither the HS nor the crew are Infantry at the beginning of their RtPh. But the word "during" in A20.21 made me wonder if I was missing something.
As I understand it, both broken units would be eliminated for FTR. If not, why?
A20.21 RtPh: Any broken Infantry unit during its RtPh that is both ADJACENT to Known, Good Order, armed enemy Infantry/Cavalry and unable to rout away from it or only able to rout while being subject to Interdiction or resorting to Low Crawl (regardless of how it actually routs or if the possible unconcealed [errata included] Interdictor is Known to it), will surrender to that enemy unit as its prisoner instead, (captor's choice of unit receiving surrender if more than one unit qualifies) after first abandoning all its SW [EXC: if pinned; 10.53 & G5.5].
D5.311 UNPROTECTED CREWS: The Inherent crew... is instead subject to PTC/MC/K/KIA results. If it breaks it must rout from the vehicle using normal Infantry rout procedures [EXC: it expends all its initial-RtPh MF to be placed beneath the vehicle]. The vehicle automatically Stops (no Stop MP is spent) when its crew breaks.
D6.1 PASSENGERS: ...Passengers may remain in their vehicle even while broken or may rout beneath a Stopped vehicle per 5.311, unless the inherent crew (if any) is eliminated, breaks, or Abandons the vehicle, in which case any broken Passengers must rout beneath the vehicle. Otherwise, a broken Passenger may remain in its vehicle free from rout requirements even if enemy units are ADJACENT, in the same hex, or the vehicle is moving toward an enemy unit (even to OVR).