more questions about bold and support

[more questions about bold and support]

Oh man, I was hoping it wouldn't be that way. :-(  Okay, thanks.  I guess that's the rule, even though I disagree with it in spirit.

[more questions about bold and support]

Another question that came up today:

My friend had a bold unit and I rolled 2 retreat flags against it.  It could not retreat because there were friendly units behind it, so it lost 1 figure.  At that point, my friend argued that he could fight back because he was still bold and I said he could not because, while he was bold (or bold-1), it would be against the spirit of the game to use that logic because in reality he SHOULD have been retreating, not getting to attack back.

What is the correct ruling on this?