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Bert and I are playing a game of Battle of the Bulge ('65) and I've come across something fairly odd in the back of the Battle Manual. In the Appendix, there's a question regarding movement through rough terrain. It reads:

"Can a Unit move through rough terrain on a road and leave rough terrain, say via SS-21 to RR21, in the same Turn? ANSWER: No -- that unit would either have to end its Turn on SS21 or leave rough terrain by road square RR-22. This situation also applies to dense woods movement." (See image below)

This indicates that it's not legal to leave a rough/road hex onto a clear hex unless via the road. However, rule 7 of the Rough Terrain section of the Basic game rules allows units to move along a road through rough terrain, then move one hex off into rough before stopping. So, taken together, those two say that a unit can move onto one more rough terrain hex from a rough/road but not onto a clear hex (unless via the road). Can that be right?

This was posted at CSW concerning rough terrain. There are other interesting posts on this game there as well.

Maybe something here will help

General magazine Vol.4, No.5 1/2/1968
If a unit moves directly from square UU19 to square TT19, has it used its entire movement allowance for that turn?
Answer: Yes. It IS possible to move from UU18 to BB33;from NN25 to KK23;from UU18 to MM25; or from MM25 to RR30 in one turn. It IS NOT possible to move from TT18 to KK26, or from LL12 to JJ14 in one turn. (We assume a movement factor of 4 here).

General magazine Vol.10, No.1 5/6/1973
May units starting on non-road, rought terrain squares move to a rought terrain road square and continue along the road in the same turn, realizing that units on non-road clear terrain squares may not make such a move?
Answer: Yes

May a unit enter a square such as NN25 on one road and continue along the other road all in the same turn without entering Clervaux?
Answer: No

From an unknown edition of the 'General' magazine
Under what cases may a unit leave a road/rough terrain to enter a non-rough terrain hex?
Answer: A unit may never enter a non-rough terrain hex from a road/rough terrain hex unless it started its move in that hex or it enters that hex along a road.

Joe Geistwhite

Thanks Paul. Not exactly what I'm looking for as those don't address my issue but I appreciate the effort. I've seen those Q/A's in a file Bert sent me. I'll attach it here for anyone else's use, in case anyone hasn't seen it. It's Q/A's culled from the General's "Question Box" up through Vol. 13, No. 3.