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ok so here is the deal. I failed a moral check and was forced to fall back 10in. there was a pillar about the size of a 30mm base in the way of my fall back move. I was considered to be "trapped" and my unit was removed from play. A friend of mine was also forced to fall back into the woods but since there was a tree in the way of where one of his models was he was considered trapped and his unit removed from play. the rule book has conflicting ideas about this. the pictures that show a legal fall back move show that you must fall back in a straight line ut the rules for trapped say that you can move around objects. so they kinda say opposite things can anyone explain how this works?

They don't have to move in a straight line. They have to move by the shortest route possible (which normally is a straight line). In both situations, the models could have (and should have) moved around per Fall Back and Trapped.

Agreed. They fall back running around things as much as they can. Just because an enemy unit is standing in the middle of an open field between your unit and a the table edge doesn't mean they are killed. They can run to the side of the unit if there's nothing blocking them. They just have to take the most direct path possible. Also, remember falling back units can shoot snap shots, so they're not a TOTAL loss while they're running away.

Trapped is done on a unit basis, not model basis, it is fine for a few models to move away from the board edge then towards the board edge by the shortest route.

If the whole unit had to move away from the board edge then double back this is when they would be destroyed.