| 4.5.0 Artillery | Artillery may not carry out attacks, but may force back units and cause spread of rout, ref. 4.2.0 and 5.4.2. When unlimbered artillery is within 10 cm of an own infantry unit in closed order that has at least twice as many figures as the gunners, and neither the artillery nor the own unit are MD or FD, the gunners may leave their model guns and seek refuge at the own unit. This must take place at the moment of receiving a declaration of attack, and is carried out without any calculation of time. The same applies to gunners that already have left their model guns, ref. 2.2.5. Gunners are counted in the number of figures in the unit at which they have sought refuge, without regard to differences in valour or other conditions, and losses are distributed proportionally. The gunners will remain part of the unit, until they are moved away from the unit. When an attack is declared against the artillery itself and not its position, the attacker must try to adapt its movements towards the unit at which the gunners have sought refuge, ref. 4.1.1, and within its marching ability either attack that unit or stop at the point of melee zone contact. When a unit, during an entire bound, is in base contact with an opponent battery that has been left by its gunners, the battery will be taken and removed from the wargames terrain at the end of the bound. This does not apply, when an opponent, that is not MD or FD, is in base contact with the battery at the end of the bound. A unit may be in base contact with only one battery. |
