[ASLML] 2 questions

[Peter Young]

> And I'm still confused.  I just can't reconcile the 5th and 6th sentences
of A20.21: "If the only adjacent armed enemy unit is
in-Melee/berserk/vehicular, the broken unit must rout away (even if
disrupted) or be eliminated for FTR.(5th sentence)"
>
> Which is seemingly immediately contradicted by the 6th: "If the broken
unit is also Disrupted, Encircled, or surrendering due to a Heat of Battle
DR, it will instead rout to that enemy unit as its prisoner even if it had a
legal rout path..."

It makes my head hurt to read them too. I think you have to consider the two
sentences as completely independent, and unrelated.

The first sentence states that a brokie starting adjacent to a known, good
order unit and unable to rout without Low Crawl or interdiction surrenders.

The fifth sentence states that a brokie (even if disrupted) must rout away
if the only adjacent units are unable to accept prisoners (melee, berserk or
vehicular) (and this agrees with A19.12 for the disrupted unit).

The sixth sentence states that a brokie who actually has a legal rout path
(not requiring Low Crawl or interdiction) but is adjacent to a known good
order unit and the brokie is disrupted, encircled or doing HOB surrender
will surrender to the adjacent unit instead.

Thus a disrupted brokie who is adjacent to a known good order unit will
surrender to them regardless of rout options (as per A19.12 and A20.21). If
the only adjacent unit is in melee, berserk or vehicular, the disrupted
brokie will rout instead, unless it can't (ie, because of other known enemy
units), in which case it will eliminated for FTR (again as per both A19.12
and A20.21).

Pete