Routing after a melee
Can someone confirm if I have this right? A unit loses a melee and routs. The rout move won't actually occur until the involuntary move phase of the next turn. The next phase of the current turn is morale. Can the routed unit attempt to rally in this phase-even though it hasn't yet moved? my reading of the rules is that it can but I may have missed something. If it can and does then rally what happens to the vistorious unit that just defeated the routed unit? It will have taken a pursuit test...horses blown means that it would retire?...superb discipline, or pursuit...does it stay in contact with the newly raillied unit? and melee next turn?...unformed has the option to stay in contact or retire and reform? That's the way I played it but comments would be appreciated Chris

That was our literal reading, but its obviously nonsense. We assumed it was a sequencing flaw and that a unit could only attemt to rally once it had completed a rout move. But then, we could be wrong!

"Unit Morale Procedure (page 54) Units in melee or broken as a result of melee do not test morale, as their morale is taken into acount in the melee result." Also if one unit in a brigade routs then the brigade must take a brigade morale test in the morale phase. This can be quite good as your enemies suddenly turn tail and flee that town you were dreading taking along with their supporting artillery (unless the artillery is more than 18" behind the bulk of the brigade in which case it stays - page 58 Brigade breaks"

Thanks that's very helpful and makes good sense....