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Do friendly defensive units that find themselves adjacent to enemy units due to 'advance after combat' have to attack on the following turn (when it is their turn to move) if they (the friendly units who were adjacent at beginning of player turn) don't move away...thus remaining adjacent to the enemy units?
From what I gather in the rules, attacks (combat) is only required when moving a friendly unit into an enemy ZOC during the movement phase.
Given my understanding of the rules, I say "yes", a friendly unit can be adjacent to an enemy unit without being forced to attack. But I do not know for sure. Hence my question!
Thanks-
Brian
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Brad Miller
United States
Seattle
Washington
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They must.
Or at least all adjacent units must be involved in some sort of attack. But you can do "soak offs" where one unit attacks at 1=5 and then all the others attack at better odds against a smaller subset of defenders.
EDIT: Unless the defenders are in a fortress.
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Thanks Brad- do you refer to rule 8.4 (in 3rd edition rules..I use the .pdf version) where it states "Every combat unit in the ZOC of an enemy unit must attack some enemy unit?"
My interpretation is that is this line still refers to the intro sentence for 8.4 "You must resolve combat against every enemy combat unit into whose ZOC you have moved units."..referring to movement by the phasing player into ZOC that causes combat.
Is there another rule that states adjacents must attack even if units not moved by the phasing player?
Thanks again-
Brian
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Darrell Pavitt
United Kingdom
Unspecified
Unspecified
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Unfortunately, every unit which is in a zoc must attack. It doesn't matter how they got into that zoc. See 11.8.
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Seth Owen
United States
Norwich
Connecticut
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Yes, you absolutely must attack if you find yourself in an enemy ZOC, regardless of when and how you got there. It's a key part of the soak-off tactic for example. You sacrifice a unit at low odds to allow some of the pieces to gang up on a defender. One consequence of this is that on the former defender's NEXT turn he has units next to the enemy, They will either have to leave or attack, even though they didn't move into a ZOC. The rule could possibly better written, but it's simply describing the most common situation when a unit has to attack because it moved into a ZOC,m but elsewhere in the rules and the example of play it makes it clear that every unit that is in a ZOC during the combat phase must attack something, and every unit that has an enemy unit in it's ZOC must be attacked by soneone.
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Ah.. 11.8 it is. Thanks Darrell..a big help as I learn this game!
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