HIP loss by Advancing squad?

[Zoetrope]

Hi,

Can someone please clarify what happens when a US squad Advances (rather than Moves) into a woods hex containing a German HIP squad? Is the German squad revealed, or is it up to the German player? :?

Thanks!

 

[bo_siemsen]

If memory serves me correctly (dont have the rulebook handy) - there will be close combat in that hex. Roll for ambush (you get -2 as if concealed) with all relevant modifiers.

 

[Robin Reeve]

A 11.19 seems to say a HIP unit is placed under a "?" counter before any CC occurs.
Concealment can be kept if unit ambushes its ennemy or if it doesn't engage in CC (but loses it if the enemy manages to harm it).