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In Legion when your engaged in melee, you can choose to leave melee by moving away.

By the rules this takes both actions and you may break combat with a move 1. If you have disengage you can make a normal move action to leave combat.

However under the withdraw section, it says a unit which makes a withdraw cannot end a withdraw move action in melee. So does that mean even if you use disengage you cannot end up in a new melee with a different unit?

Cheers

Andrew

The two rules do not have anything to do with each other.

Withdraw is as you say (though note it is use all available actions so that would be all three with Maul) and disengage is you may perform moves normally if you are engaged with a single enemy unit.

If Disengage was meant to interact with Withdraw it would have been worded like 'Whilst engaged with a single enemy unit you may perform a Withdraw move at the units base speed using a single action.'

While interesting and validates what I thought, it's not the answer to the question I was asking.

Can you leave one melee combat to enter a second?

Because strictly by the rules the only way you can leave combat is by withdrawing. Disengage allows you to move freely, but not leave combat.

Andrew

Yes. Because when you use Disengage you are moving freely, thus allowed to start a new melee (or re-entering the same one).

The rules do not actually say the only way to leave melee is via Withdraw as there are other examples (Force Push, Vaders Might, Gideon's card whose name escapes me, Yodas snap with Chewie etc.).