overlap

Hello goldenhord,

well - there are two types of overlaps.
A. Front corner to front corner contact
B. Mutual side edge to side edge contact

For exapmle:
Your element (blue 1) is in frontal Close Combat (CC) (front edge to front edge) with your opponent's element (red 1). Another red 2 element adjacent to the CC fighting element contacts your blue 1 element's front corner by its own front corner and therefore creates a -1 overlap to your blue 1 element. That is "A". (If your element blue 1 is PS or SCh, you'll ignore that -1! And if the overlapping red 2 element is in CC by itself, it has its own CC business and doesn't create an overlap!).

If your element (blue 1) is in frontal Close Combat (CC) (front edge to front edge) with your opponent's element (red 1) and another red 2 element is in contact with its own side edge to the side edge of your element (mutual side edge to side edge contact, "B"), then the red 2 element in side edge to side edge contact creates a -1 overlap to the CC of your element (blue 1)... "whether in frontal CC (red 1) or not (page 10, rulebook)" by another of your blue 2 elements (in which case the overlapping red 2 element is in CC by its own! Anyway - the facing / direction of red 2 doesn't matter as long as a part of red 2's side edge is in contact with a part of blue 1's side edge it'll create an overlap!!! Vice versa - of course, blue 1's side edge contact to red 2's side edge will create a -1 overlap to the CC of red 2 with blue 2!



Rear corner contact or "Back" (rear edge contact) is not creating any overlap!


Cheers,
Ronald.