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 ====== 9. COMBAT ======
-Hand-to-hand combat occurs when two opposing
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+**Hand-to-hand combat occurs when two opposing
 units, characters, monsters or any combination
 there of, come into base-to-base contact with each
-other. No figure may fight more than once in a turn.
+other. No figure may fight more than once in a turn.**
 Units, characters and monsters can only initiate
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 opposing sides, receive orders to advance at normal
 speed and these orders will result in them contacting
-each other, they will stop 5 cms from each other, or
+each other, they will stop 5 cm from each other, or
 remain stationary, if the space between them is
-already 5 cms or less at the start of the turn.
+already 5 cm or less at the start of the turn.
 ==== WEAPON TYPES ====
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 units at Combat Height.
+====== OVERLAPPING UNITS ======
+A unit which has won or drawn a round of combat,
+is in line and has a number of figures unengaged-
+because its frontage extends beyond that of the
+enemy, may commit these figures in the next round
+of combat, if the terrain allows such a move. (For
+instance, it may not on a bridge or in a narrow street).
+Uncommitted figures, require no orders and are
+wheeled into combat in phase one of the game turn.
+The figures that have wheeled in do not receive any
+combat modifiers for charging or flank or rear
+attacks, but they do retain any rank bonuses they
+may have and any reach advantage their weapons
+may grant. Units which lap round the foe in this
+manner are not classed as being disordered and
+therefore, at the end of the combat, if they are
+victorious and do not conduct pursuit movement, do
+not have to be marked with a Disordered counter.
+They are simply moved back into their original
+formation.
+Overlapped defenders, because of the dangerous
+position they find themselves in, lose their combat
+modifier for the number of ranks they possess, and
+may only count those figures in actual base-to-base
+contact with the overlapping enemy, regardless of
+the type of weapon they are armed with. However
+they do not have to take a Morale Test for being
+attacked in the flank or rear.
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+If a unit is attacked in the flank and wins or draws
+the fight on that flank, it may on the next turn, wheel
+in any uncommitted troops on that flank, as in the
+example.
+====== PUSHBACKS ======
+A unit that loses a round of combat is pushed back.
+A pushback reflects the gradual retreat of a force in
+the face of a superior enemy. A unit attacked in the
+front is pushed backwards. A unit attacked in the
+flank is pushed sideways. A unit attacked in the rear
+is pushed forwards. A unit attacked simultaneously
+on two sides moves away from the regiment which
+has inflicted the most casualties pushing the other
+enemy unit ahead of it.
+For each figure an infantry unit loses more than its
+foe, it is pushed back one centimetre. For each figure
+a mounted unit loses more than its foe it is pushed
+back two centimetres. For each figure a flying unit
+loses more than its foe it is pushed back four
+centimetres. In all cases the winner moves with the
+loser and remains in contact for the next round of
+combat.
+For pushback purposes all two legged creatures
+on the ground are classed as infantry. All four legged
+creatures on the ground are counted as cavalry.
+Characters and monsters count each hit as 'one
+figure killed' for the purposes of calculating a
+pushback. All pushbacks occur before any post
+combat Morale Tests.
+===== PUSHBACKS AND INITIATING COMBAT =====
+As a victorious unit follows up a pushback it may
+come into contact with another enemy unit. If this
+happens combat with that new unit is initiated and
+neither side receives the charge bonus.
+**Exception: Units defending fortifications, walls,
+hedges or buildings, which pushback an enemy
+force do not have to follow up the pushback. If they
+decline to follow it up then no movement occurs but
+the loser must still take a Morale Test. If he passes
+this test, the fight continues in the next phase of
+combat.**
+----
+[[morale|CHAPTER 10. MORALE]]