[alexti]

I am not sure how it work exactly either. From my observation, the troops that routed in the magic phase *may* participate in the battle that happens in a regular phase. For example, I've seen the situation like that: I've magic-dropped my SC on top of Niefel Jarl. Niefel Jarl was injured, got an affliction and got down to something like 30HP. In the same turn I was attacking the neighbouring province with the regularly moving army. When they've arrived, the routed Jarl was there, with affliction and with exactly the same number of HP (name and equipment matched as well, so it was surely the same guy). Interestingly, he has not recovered his lost HP during the route...