Rules regarding exiting units

[Otto von Blotto]

I must admit I don’t see a problem with removing non combat units (trucks, carriers and things that can’t fire in offence or defence) from the map, in fact I would expect them to be exited as they are there just to move combat units forwards or backwards and have no other purpose in the game as they can’t be used in battle and shouldn’t be used for spotting they are just hanging around waiting for a luck artillery shell to get them and that doesn’t make any sense to me.

I seem to remember from the manual the hints section on pbem play by Eric Larsen encourages removing them if they aren’t needed to transport units, and forcing them to stay puts the Russians at a great disadvantage as they have a larger proportion of trucks and horse drawn movers that other sides as they don’t have many APCs.

I think if I’m in that bad a position that an opponent has reached my trucks I’ve lost the game by a long margin anyway and a few extra points I might have removed aren’t going to help, and if I can catch a truck that my opponent hasn’t retreated or removed then that’s my good luck, the edge of the map isn’t the edge of the world and no commander worth his salt, would leave un-armed units hanging around in danger it just has no realism.