(01-23-2023, 01:22 PM)Grognard Gunny Wrote: I believe the rules state something to the effect that ALL Demoralized units; first, roll for morale (to bring it up to "Disrupted"), failing that, the next step is the retreat step..... all Demoralized units MUST leave the assault hex. This MAY or MAY NOT be with a Leader.
Again, this leaves little room for "leaving a Demoralized unit behind".....", acccording to Hoyle, anyway.
I sometimes misread places in the rules where demoralized is construed, by me, to be a generic term rather than a specific term used to denote a more serious condition than merely Disrupted.
(I'm SOOOO confused!)
GG
You are still bound by the framework of the activation system. The units must activate to attempt recovery, it is not a free action, although it is a mandatory action at some point in the turn (unless cut off by Fog of War). The player agency enters the picture in how and when they choose to activate those demoralized units to recover/flee. If you have a stack of 2 x INF (dem), you can self activate one unit to attempt recovery, have it fail, and have it flee out of the assault hex, there is no free shot because there are still other friendly units in the hex. If you activate the stack to recover simultaneously, and they both fail, then they leave the hex in the same activation, and thus are both hit with the free shot.
