Re: "I didn't know you could voluntarily disband a dislodged unit."

Chris Babcock <cbabcock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>This is an interesting situation I ran into... This wasn't a novice
>player, but someone who had spent some time in the postal hobby. The
>only rules he had available were a 1961 reprint of the 1959 rules. The
>rule in question was introduced in 1971. Does anyone know the history
>behind this? Whether it was a change or a clarification? 

>Chris 

Recollection is fuzzy on this one.  The usual such issue raised is 
voluntarily disbanding a unit and rebuilding in a home center.  That WAS 
allowed in early versions of the rules and clarified in 1971.  The retreat

OTB (Off the Board) was clearly allowed then.  You also had the Just's 
Right Hand rule from Eric Just, in "prophetic retreat games" where 
retreats were announced with the movement adjudication, annihilation was 
the only way to remove a unit in a retreat.  I would never have seen it 
put that way, though.

Jim-Bob