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Hey Guys,

Just a quick question that I wasn't able to find quickly using the search feature. This came up in a game with my buddies that I wasn't aware of if this is how it is meant to be. I know that the rules state you are suppose to fall back the shortest possible route to your own table edge. I guess the question is, my idea of a table edge is your primary longest edge of the board. I guess I've always thought that the battle we are fighting is just a small battle in a larger war and that if your units are falling back, they would run back to where you deployed from which would be the safest area, rather then run parallel to the board and farther away from "reinforcements", atleast that is the way I think of it in my head. I put in a picture of how a combat battle went. If the battle takes place on the red X, and the results of the battle are me falling back towards my edge, is the edge considered the Green Arrow or the part where the table is split in 1/2 on the short edge which would be the direction of the Blue Arrow ?

You are correct. There is only one table edge per player so the unit must follow the route of the green arrow.

At the start of the game you pick YOUR long table edge. That never changes.

Thanks for the quick replies and for the confirmation! Now I won't be so scared to run my units along the sides w/ fear of falling back off the edge immediately.

Your board edge is ALWAYS the long edge.

No matter if your deployment is long edge or quadrant.

Ergo, ALL fallback moves are towards the LONG BOARD EDGE.

chromedog wrote:Your board edge is ALWAYS the long edge.

No matter if your deployment is long edge or quadrant.

Ergo, ALL fallback moves are towards the LONG BOARD EDGE.

And it doesn't matter that you only got to deploy along half of it, you fall back towards the nearest portion of your long table edge. Also you may move reserves onto the board from any portion of your long edge.

Example: Spearhead deployment game. On turn four you have a unit 6" away from the short edge your opponent deployed next to. Your unit still falls back parallel to the short edges (if possible), not diagonally to them. And reserves can be brought in from any point along your long table edge, not just the 36" of your deployment zone.

Interesting, I usually don't reserve much, but it's good to know about that tidbit during spearhead.

The OP's opponent may be thinking of 3rd ed or 4th ed rules, which did not say what the 5th ed missions do about each player having a long table edge which is considered his table edge.