[ASLML] Armored Assault questions

[Kenneth Knudsen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Deller" <s.deller at charter.net>
To: <Aslml at asl-forums.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: [ASLML] Armored Assault questions


| Gentlemen,
| 
| Our club members have different interpretations of the part of D9.31
| (Armored Assault) that states:  "If Infantry move in a stack with the AFV,
| that AFV cannot move farther than if it were accompanied by that same
| infantry throughout the move - even if the Infantry fails to end its MPh in
| the same hex with the AFV."
| 
| "A" is the interpretation that an AFV can only go as far as the actual MF
| expenditure of the assaulting Infantry would allow.  For example:  a
| non-Double-Time assaulting squad moves 2 hexes for 2 MF with the AFV.  The
| squad then breaks away to expend 1 more MF to enter another hex.  The AFV
| could only go one additonal hex from the point that the squad broke away,
| and only if that hex would have cost the squad 1 MF had it still been
| assaulting.
| 
| "B" is the interpretation that an AFV can go as far as the potential MF
| expediture of the assaulting Infantry.  For example, that same sqaud
| (discussed above) moves 2 hexes for 2 MF, then breaks away for 1 more hex at
| one more MF.  The AFV could go an additional 2 hexes (assuming they would
| only cost 2 MF)  since that is no farther than the non-Double-Time squad
| could go had it accompanied the AFV.
| 
| If the correct interpretation is "A", which of the units in a stack dictates
| the movement limit of the accompanying AFV?  If a large stack of 3 squads
| and 3 MMCs is armored assaulting, and this stack is depleted during its
| assault by pins/breaks/wounds as well as by choice (units breaking away and
| stopping movement or Double-Timing for one extra MF), on whose MF
| expenditure does the AFV's movement depend?
| 
| If the correct interpretation is "B", the question concerning the disbanding
| stack would be:  On whose potential MF expenditure would the AFV's movement
| depend?
| 
| Which is the correct interpretation?

It's B.

The AFV can go as far as the Infantry could, had it stayed with the AFV all along.

Kenneth