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One thing i don´t fully understand at the moment is how a breakthrough work. Especially which unit can participate? Only units in reserve or units of the actual army too. I ask this question because i notice both. Let me give you an example. During the Early August turn as CP (Schlieffen plan) i move the first Army to Louvain (north of Bruxelles). The third Army to Namur. After i hit the "Enact all Movement" button i got a battle in Namur in which i plan a Breakthrough against Dinant in the South. The battle was victorious for me and then the Breakthrough battle start where i could only use the one corp which was in reserve at the third army. Certainly i lost the battle. After this battle i had the Breakthrough sub-phase where i can move my First Army from Louvain to Bruxelles. But in this battle i could use all the units of the First Army not only the reserve units. I won the battle but the First Army don´t move to Bruxelles after the fight. So is there a difference between fight a battle and then make a breakthrough and move and breakthrough?

Btw the boardgame rules have this paraghraph:

32-B. Breakthrough Starting from an Empty Hex
• A stack with infantry that moved but did not engage in combat may carry out
a “breakthrough” from its hex (after the resolution of all battles), with the units
in its HQ Reserve.

This is missing in the pc manual.

Thanks
Frank

Battles can generate breakthroughs only with reserve units.
Moving detachments that instead do not generate battles, can do a breaktrough with full forces.

Thanks Calvinus. The rules are a little bit unclear on this point.