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Can someone please explain what has happened here?
With other units, the IJA’s 5th Division has been advancing SW in hex 50, 74, destination Taiping. It is moving along the railway line, so its rate of progress has been that appropriate to a ‘railway trail’. Without having taken much notice of the exact rate of advance, I estimate this has been 6 to 8 miles per day. By 26 December, 5th Division is just two miles short of its objective.
Meanwhile, the 114th Rgt has taken the longer but easier road route to Taiping via Georgetown, arriving in Taiping on 26 December. It is committed to an immediate attack upon the town’s defenders, 1st Mysore Bn.
Immediately before the attack, certain units that had been accompanying 5th Division arrive at Taiping, having been put into Reserve (Pursuit) mode for the last two miles of their march. They include 22nd Recon Rgt.
The attack proceeds, and the Mysores take to their heels. As I had hoped, 22nd Recon and other units follow in hot pursuit, so that they end up one hex SW of Taiping at the end of the turn, and well placed to hit the hapless Mysores once again on the following day. So far so good.
Meanwhile, however, the sound of battle just two miles distant has utterly disconcerted 5th Division. Instead of advancing those two remaining miles into newly captured Taiping, it stops in its tracks, re-aligns its axis of advance in a westerly direction, and sets off afresh in the direction of Georgetown! It still has Taiping as the objective of its march, but has become so confused that it now believes it has only 46 miles to march, rather than the 92 mile journey the scenic route via Georgetown will actually take. Much worse, it has completely disregarded the fact that it was only 2 miles away from its march objective, and for some reason has declined to cover a distance significantly shorter than that covered by previous days’ marches, notwithstanding that there has been no change in its fatigue level.
Is there some nuance to the overland movement rules I have overlooked that has produced this outcome? I have found nothing that helps in the manual or via a search of the forum, and even if this is WAD the behaviour of 5th Division appears to me anomalous. Why didn’t it advance those last 2 miles into Taiping? And why abandon that line of advance when so near to its objective?
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