Routing question

[MajorDomo]

Vichy French are blue.; It is their movement turn, Rout phase. No Quarter has not been invoked.

My take is the French, routing first, cannot stay in Open Ground in normal range of a Brit unit. They cannot rout without taking interdiction, but they cannot surrender to the Brits in EE4 as the are not ADJACENT.

So:
A. Must they rout to FF2, take interdiction, then rout to say EE2?
B. Can they Low Crawl to FF2?
C. Must they die for Failure to Rout?

I think C, but am not sure or I would not have made this post.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[jrv]

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Vichy French are blue.; It is their movement turn, Rout phase. No Quarter has not been invoked.

My take is the French, routing first, cannot stay in Open Ground in normal range of a Brit unit. They cannot rout without taking interdiction, but they cannot surrender to the Brits in EE4 as the are not ADJACENT.

So:
A. Must they rout to FF2, take interdiction, then rout to say EE2?
B. Can they Low Crawl to FF2?
C. Must they die for Failure to Rout?

I think C, but am not sure or I would not have made this post.

The French are required to rout because they are in open ground and normal range. They are not required to surrender because even though their rout route would involve low crawl or interdiction, they are not ADJACENT to a known good order armed enemy infantry/cavalry. They may rout using either option A or B. The same would happen if EE4 was adjacent (e.g. no cliff) but the British were not infantry/cavalry (e.g. a tank).

JR

 

[Eagle4ty]

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Vichy French are blue.; It is their movement turn, Rout phase. No Quarter has not been invoked.

My take is the French, routing first, cannot stay in Open Ground in normal range of a Brit unit. They cannot rout without taking interdiction, but they cannot surrender to the Brits in EE4 as the are not ADJACENT.

So:
A. Must they rout to FF2, take interdiction, then rout to say EE2?
B. Can they Low Crawl to FF2?
C. Must they die for Failure to Rout?

I think C, but am not sure or I would not have made this post.

Thanks,
Rich

For the reasons mentioned A or B are your options.