Pushing A SuG

[Francis Small]

The last rules question from the Kubla Con tournament involves the mechanics of how a TuG pushes back a SuG. Below is my analysis - let me know if it's correct or not.

In  the game, a SuG of mounted skirmishers (UG B) advanced to shoot at Rich Gagliasso's perfidious Romans (I know, an oxymoron. Oh, and they were UG A.) A TuG friendly to the SuG was close by like so:



I realized (so I thought) that if UG A advanced, it would push UG B into UG C, causing a KaB test on UG C as the mounted SuG burst through it, so I retreated UG B out of the way in the game. Later I brought up the point that Rich could have done terrible things to me, but was  told, on no, nothing bad would have happened to me. I still don't quite believe it.

After the game I realized that if UG A advanced and contacted B, B could have done a runaway response (but without rolling for shooting) and all would have been fine - no burst throughs. Assuming, however that I let UG B get pushed back, I think that I have two choices how B is moved. The first is that it pivots to face off against UG A, ending up something like this:



This causes it to burst through UG C.

The other possibility is that it retains its orientation relative to the board, ending up 1 BW aways measured from the TuG to the point on the SuG that was first contacted it like so:



Again, UG B will burst through C.

However, what I was  told was that UG B could simply be pushed back to its own rear like this:



But I don't think this last position is a legal pushback position as it doesn't conform to the two choices given on p. 111. The only choice that avoids a burst-through would be the run away response.

[lionheartrjc]

You are correct in what page 111 says.  It is pushed back away from the enemy TuG, not to its own rear.  It can choose to run away to its own rear.

Richard