Rule problems

O.k. boys, that was really quick! Thanks!

Now the next one, higher grade. 

Imagine a line of three LH attacking the last enemy unit of a straight battle line.
But not frontal but obliquely, by let's say 45°.

The LH end their move with the middle LH front edge contacting the one free front corner of the last unit. Their move distance is used up, no PIP's left.

1. Must this move be cancelled?
2. Must anyone conform?
3. If there is CC, what overlaps do count?
4. If there are move distances and PIP's left, what move is regular?


  ...  eu eu eu    LH
                      LH
                 LH           x starting point

As Menacussecundus says.

Moving Into Contact on page 9:-
       “A single element or group contacting a group conforms to that group.”
       “If this is not possible (due to a lack of movement), the move does not happen.” (see figure 10)
(Note that only front-edges trigger conforming, not front-corners, see FAQ.
And conforming does not force groups to split - see figures 13c and 13d).

However, if the LH group made legal contact with the flank of the enemy,
then that enemy will turn-to-face, and be overlapped by the centre LH.

And if the centre LH of the group made legal contact with the flank of the enemy,
then once that enemy had turned-to-face the centre LH it would find itself overlapped
on both flanks by the two outer LH elements of the moving group.

And another one:

A column of a Hd and a warband on a road in the woods are attacked by two auxilia (green bases): 



What happens?

In the second picture, combat factors are 3 v 2 (Ax 3, Wb 3-1 for being overlapped). If Wb loses, it cannot recoil and both it and the Hd are destroyed.

In the first picture, I'm not sure the flanking Ax has made legal (i.e. front corner to front corner) contact. If it could contact the Hd's front corner, the factors would again be 3 v 2 (Ax 3, Hd 3-1 for being overlapped). If the Hd is destroyed, the Wb is too. However, if the result the Ax scores more than the Hd but doesn't double it, nothing happens. If the scores are equal or the Ax has to recoil, both Ax recoil and the Hd/Wb column pursues. If the Ax in front is destroyed, the one on the flank recoils and the Hd/Wb pursues 1BW along the road.

I’m afraid that there are several errors in the above post.

① The very bottom of page 6 says “Combat is in the going (the Road) is passing through”.
     Therefore the combat factors should be 3 for the Ax and zero for the Hd (3 minus 3).
    (Hordes, even if they are ‘Fast’, don’t like fighting in bad going, and suffer the -2 penalty)

② “Pursuit” on page 12 says “…there is no pursuit in bad going (except in Marsh or Gully)”.
      So nobody is going to pursue if they are victorious…not even the Wb or Hd.

Fortunately Les1964 escapes the ever watchful pedantic eye of old Stevie.
Figures 20a, 20b, and 20c shows examples of this very situation.

I sit in corrected in the naughty corner.  But as figs 20a-c don't cover the configuration shown in the first photo, perhaps you would like to come and join me, Stevie.