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Can a Reserve Box corps that replaced an eliminated army cancel a retreat, or does its failure to retreat eliminate the army too?

The rulebook says a replacement corps is not an escape from permanent elimination.

  • Paths of Glory rulebook · Rulebook · 12.5 Retreats
  • dursten · Community · 2017-08-11
  • Eric Brosius · Community · 2014-09-23
  • jdgalt · Community · 2014-09-23
  • elminster41 · Community · 2017-08-11disagrees

Only by taking the extra step loss that cancels a retreat, which a replacement corps can do only in a trench, forest, desert, mountain or swamp space. A replacement corps that cannot retreat and cannot take that step is eliminated, and the army it replaced is permanently eliminated as well.

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