[Ironhawk]

tinkthank said:
Now the routed units of Schleim's victorious troop from the battle in D will have nowhere to rout to (C was their only supply line to B), and hence just disappear -- right?

To your first question: as we discussed in this thread, no one seems to know when routed troops choose which province they will retreat to. We know that battles occur in a random order. If routing troops choose a province to flee to *immediately after the battle* then there are cases (like you have described) where troops could be killed even if they have a province to flee to *at end of turn* when all battles are complete.

In the particular case of Shliem's troops which routed from the battle at D tho... if we assume that troops cannot fight in two battles in the same phase, then they would definitely be killed regardless of when routing actually happens because their only rout location is B and that province is conquered by Spam that same turn.

And the routed troops from the magic Ghost Riders battle in A -- can they have routed to the newly gained province B?

No. We know that routing occurs at least at the end of every phase. So that province will not have been conquered yet.

But what if Spam was not victorious in B, but rather lost half that army, while the other half routed -- since these routed units still have A to return to, they can rout back to A.

They could rout to A certainly, thats normal routing. Whether they could rout to province D or not is not known since we dont know when routing actually occurs within a phase.

If you are also asking if it is possible to flee to D, and they do, can they then rout a second time that phase? Don't know the answer to that one, but my feeling is that you cannot fight two times in the same round...

But what about the routed units from the magic battle -- they have no where to go but A. Can routed units "return" "back" to A, or do they go lost?

I know for a fact that units which rout during the magic combat phase can rout again in the normal combat phase. So units routed due to the Ghost Riders, which fled into province D, would then be able to flee back to province A.