Eastern Front Series River / Flotilla Clarifications

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I asked the following

No Retreat order rule on page 26 Crimea Book: 16.41 The extra step loss for a unit with no retreat and not German. Is that ONLY when you get a R result?

That is the way I read it. If I have a no retreat Order, but the combat result is say 1/1, I dont take an extra step loss if its say Romanian Cavalry? Or is bullet 1 and 2 IN ADDITION to whatever other result you get? I wouldn't think that makes sense. Also in the standard 6.2 rules PDF download heck I cant even find this anymore in that book am I losing my mind lol

Next: Flotillas and WHERE they can move. This may be according to game but not sure. Minor Rivers like the ones on the Kiev To Rostov map are they off limits? Or say the Crimea Map.(pictures attached)

The TEC chart in the later games says "Canal/River Hexside" In Army group North Canals have a specific look on the map. So are Flotillas limited only to Sea Hexsides and Major Rivers or are Rivers/Canal Hexsides in play as well. (the smaller blue lines that run along a hexside)

Answers:

The TEC chart in the later games says "Canal/River Hexside" In Army group North Canals have a specific look on the map. So are Flotillas limited only to Sea Hexsides and Major Rivers or are Rivers/Canal Hexsides in play as well. (the smaller blue lines that run along a hexside)

Canals have a 'hatched' graphic on one side of the 'blue' line that represents the actual canal. Flotillas CAN move along a canal but they have to remain on the hexside that has the hatched graphic (ie in the hex where the hatch extends into). With a river, they can move along either side (bank). A major river, like a river, can move along either side/bank with the addition allowing that flotilla to move along the 'opposite bank' and ignore the enemy unit ZOC on the major river bank.

Hello all. I have a question about the No Retreat order rule on page 26 Crimea Book: 16.41 The extra step loss for a unit with no retreat and not German. Is that ONLY when you get a R result?

Yes, only the 'R' result generates the loss, and no retreat. If German only, that's it. If any others, there is an additional loss, making two steps lost, however, certain terrain can cancel that 2nd loss.

d. Flotillas move on canals, the same way they do major rivers, but only on those hexes that include the canal graphic.

OK, look at this two PNGs. One is the TEC and the other is a piece of Canal.

Note the canal runs along the hexside and to the RIGHT of the canal is the hashed markings that denote that this graphic is a CANAL.

And while a Flotilla can travel along a canal but it can ONLY transit in the hexes on the right side of the canal and CAN NOT transit on the left side hexes.

So they travel on the HASHED side but not the non-hashed side.

Canal