What happens to a flank attack when the main front-edge opponent recoils from a magic attack?
Here is the situation:-
The red player moves two elements to hard-flank a enemy, but they roll equal, so they stand.
In the next blue bound, a blue magical attack forces the red front-edge opponent to recoil.
There is no pursuit, as the the blue element has an enemy red element in contact with its flank.
What happens to this flank attack in the subsequent close combat phase?
There are three options...either:-
a) the flank attack doesn’t count (see ‘accidental contact’ on page 17, and also
diagram 35.1, elements ‘M’ and ‘A’).
b) the blue element turns-to-face this flank attack at the start of the combat phase
(
as if the red element
had just moved into contact with this flank, even though
it's not the end of the movement phase).
c) nobody moves, but they still fight, as the red element is the ‘main opponent’
(see the bottom of page 21...but can the blue element still recoil with an enemy
in front-edge contact to its flank?).
I think that option (b) is the most sensible common sense approach in the above situation.