17:38–18:32
Hessian infantry cross Petty's Run and fire a volley that drives back the American flank, forcing a critical morale check to prevent a cascading rout.
25:52–26:33
After rolling a 1 puts his commander at risk, Steve rolls a d10 on the leader casualty table, resulting in General Massena being killed and forcing all units within three inches to make morale checks.
5:54–6:14
Keith highlights the 'death worthy of a song' rule, where rolling a one to hit while the defender rolls a six triggers an awe-inspiring kill that forces nearby enemies to test morale.
13:21–13:52
The hosts explain how routing or retreating units can cause friendly troops within 3 inches to accumulate DMZs, triggering historical chain-reaction collapses.
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Routing guards and nearby routs spread rout to militia and other units.
If a Guards unit routs, any unit it passes within 1" of also routs, chaining if that unit is also Guards. Militia automatically rout if any other unit routs within 1" or passes within 1" while routing.
A Militia unit automatically routs if any other unit routs within 1" of it or passes by within 1" when routing.
Ward commanders check for Faltering when a company routs, suffers galling archery, crosses obstacles or loses its commander.
Draw a card and read the Falter result for the ward commander's commitment: Fight On, Falter or Miscarry. Effects depend on the cause, e.g. the ward halts and loses its approach under archery, all companies lose 1 Courage after a company is lost, or 1-2 Courage on losing the commander. A commander may substitute by having every company lose 1 Courage to drive on.
If during a turn an individual company is broken and put to flight, or if one is halted by archery fire, the entire ward that it is a part of may falter because of the misfortune caused to one of its parts.
Friendly units retiring, routing or losing leaders within 4" inflict DPs.
2 DPs per friendly HI retiring within 4"; 1 per MI or HC retiring; 3 per legion of 7+ bases routed or destroyed; 2 per other non-light unit routed/destroyed; 1 if a leader is killed or routed (2 for the General). Applied immediately.
3 DPs for each friendly Roman legion of 7 bases or more routing or destroyed within 4”
Friendly retreats and routs within 6" inflict DPs scaled by relative grade.
Troops ignore retreats of lower-grade friends but take 1 DP if one routs past within 6". An equal/higher grade unit retreating past within 6" gives 2 DPs; an equal grade rout gives 2 DPs and 1 casualty; a higher grade rout gives 3 DPs and 1 casualty.
If higher grade unit routs past within 6" take 3 DPs and l Casualty.
Friendly units retreating or routing past within 6" inflict DPs and casualties scaled by relative training grade.
Troops ignore retreats of lower-grade units but take 1 DP if one routs past within 6". An equal/higher grade unit retreating past within 6" gives 2 DPs; an equal-grade unit routing past gives 2 DPs and 1 casualty; a higher-grade unit routing past gives 3 DPs and 1 casualty.
If higher grade unit routs past within 6" take 3 DPs and l Casualty.
A friendly rout within 2" disorders nearby units, or routs already-disordered ones.
Units with a friendly unit routing within 2" test; the result is becoming disordered, or routing if already disordered. Each friendly unit routing within 2" also gives -1 to morale.
Friendly unit routing in 2 inches {Become Disordered/ Already Disordered Rout}
Loss of the army commander forces nearby morale checks.
On a 10 on the officer casualty roll, if the officer is the army commander, all units within 12" take a morale check.
If it is army commander, all units within 12" of the officer take a morale check.
Rout of neighbours, home contingents or parent units forces checks or flight in nearby friends.
In the Katastrophe phase a taxis tests on the Katastrophe line if it lost lochoi to rout, lost its strategos, saw a neighbouring taxis rout, or had routers or evaders pass through it. In allied armies all allied taxis test once when a Home taxis routs. Lights attached to a parent taxis or hipparchy attempt to follow it when it routs.
When a taxis has seen a neighbouring taxis rout. A taxis has had routers or evaders pass through them.
A friendly rout nearby forces other units to test morale.
When a friendly unit routs within 10" of the front or flank or 5" of the rear of another friendly unit, that unit takes a normal casualty-style morale check, with -1 if it is US Volunteer or Mexican Militia.
Whenever a friendly unit routs within 10" of the front or flank or 5" of the rear of another friendly unit, the standing unit must check its morale
Squadrons directly behind a router are disordered.
Any squadron within 6 inches directly behind a squadron that routed is automatically Disordered, or Unformed if it was already Disordered.
Any squadron within 6” directly behind a squadron which routed is automatically Disordered (or Unformed id already Disordered).
Leader or hero deaths and heavy losses force morale tests across the warband.
Leader killed: every figure tests. Over 50% wounded: every figure tests. Hero killed: figures within the Hero's Morale range test. Raven Token: enemies within 6" test. A figure may face multiple tests in a turn.
Leader Killed This Turn—Every Viking in the entire warband
Friendly units falling back or destroyed within 4" and in sight force morale checks.
Any non-skirmish unit falling back (including voluntary fallbacks and repeated routs) within 4" forces nearby friends to test, if they can see it. Destruction of a friend within 4" by fire or melee also triggers tests, except for units already in melee or victorious ones. A unit tests only once per turn for passing fallbacks.
Units (except skirmishers) that fallback within 4" of a friendly unit, even if the fallback is in front of the friendly unit, will cause a morale check.
Units test when friendly routers are within 6" as their card is drawn.
Horse test if any routing friendly unit is within six inches when their card is turned; foot only test for routing friendly foot.
Horse must test if there is a routing friendly unit within six inches when their Order Card is turned.
Units seeing friends run through or past them test or join the runaways.
A unit that sees friends run through or past it within 4BW rolls a d6, -1 per base lost and -1 if friends run through it; 1 or less and it panics and runs. Runaway light troops are ignored, and Macedonian infantry ignore runaway cavalry. All units test immediately if the army commander is killed or quits.
Panic test: Roll a dice: - minus 1 for each base lost and minus 1 if friends are running through it.