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I had a game the other day where an armoured troop crossed a river directly adjacent to some buildings occupied by my infantry. 2 of the 4 tanks bogged and the remainder carried on for their full move (well out of command). In the assault phase my infantry piled out of the building and captured the bogged tanks and then consolidated back into the building as there were no enemy teams within range so I had won the assault.

We couldn't decide what to do with the 2 remaining tanks of the platoon so we didn't do anything with them.

Did they need to take a morale check or were they fine?

My answer would be: No motivation check, the platoon is at exactly 50% strength and thus doesn't need to take one. However, if in your situation say 3 tanks had bogged and you had captured them the fourth tank would have needed to take a morale check as the platoon is now below 50%. I'm guessing that you're asking more about the fact that the tanks were drastically out of command with the now destroyed tanks, to which I say the answer is the same. I could be wrong, but I see no place in the rules that states that a platoon doesn't have to test if it falls below 50% due to losing out of command stands.

Well what I meant to say (drunk posting..) was would the tank platoon need to make a motivation test to break off for having lost the assault even though they were well out of command range of the now destroyed tanks.

 Palindrome wrote:
Well what I meant to say (drunk posting..) was would the tank platoon need to make a motivation test to break off for having lost the assault even though they were well out of command range of the now destroyed tanks.

1.) iirc, you are only required to fall back to the minimum distance. If the rest of the platoon is outside of that distance, then they're not required to fall back any further.
2.) If there are no teams currently in range of the assault, then the assault automatically ends without anyone being required to take a motivation test to break off.

No, if they were more then 8" from an assaulting team they do not get a break off move.
pg165, first paragraph in italics

AndrasOtto wrote:
No, if they were more then 8" from an assaulting team they do not get a break off move.
pg165, first paragraph in italics

The issue with that is that it was the requirement for a break off check that we couldn't find an answer to. it is largely academic of course.

It appears that the answer is on page 161, "if there are no enemy teams within 4" the attacker automatically wins and can consolidate". The losing platoon apparently doesn't do anything if there are sufficiently far away. The wording is pretty sloppy though as the italicized section of the 'opponent tests motivation' section states that you need to check motivation if you have not won....

We basically counted the still active tanks as a separate platoon as it made sense and we couldn't be bothered poring through the rulebook.