Quick question about marching/combat

[arabprince 3]

Hello all,

 

I'm new to the game and I am absolutely loving it!

 

I had one question I wanted to confirm though: When issuing a march order on a unit/group of units and you march into enemy territory and engage in combat. If you win the combat, do you have to move all of your units that fought into the new territory?

 

Example. Baratheon has 2 footmen and 1 knight and he chooses to march into Lannister territory which has 2 knights. Baratheon calculates his initial combat strength as 4. If he wins this fight do all of his units advance to the territory that is now vacated by Lannister? Or can he choose which units to move and which not to move in the new land?

 

Logically, it only makes sense that all the units used in combat must advance to the new territory,. Since if you consider an army "marching", if they win, part of the army can't just march back to its starting position. Just want to confirm this.

 

Thanks

[player1533151 6]

You can only leave the units, which took part in the combat, on the newly occupied territory.
Before you start the combat, you have to say how many units are marching and where. No changes can be done here.

[kauai1964 41]

This is a common question.  Unlike in Risk, where combat happens (on the border between areas), and then units move, in AGOT, first you March into the area, then Combat happens.

 

Rulebook says:

 

When a player moves one or more units into an area
containing units from another house, he starts a combat
as the attacker.

 

Whenever a player marches one or more of his units into an
area containing units from another House, combat ensues.

 

If marching units enter an area containing one or more

enemy units, a combat ensues.

Edited September 8, 2014 by kauai1964

[The Professor 216]

arabprince,

 

     Just to put a point on kauai's excellent response...you can therefore choose, per your example, to have one of Baratheon's two Footmen and 1 Knight March into the adjacent territory, while the other Footman remains behind to defend the territory from which the other two started the March.

 

Cheers,

Joe

Edited September 8, 2014 by The Professor

[arabprince 3]

Thank you all for the detailed responses. This is what I thought as well, good to have that confirmation.

 

Appreciate your time!