Question About Facing After Retreat

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Originally Posted by FireHorse

The Attacker doesn't need to force the Defender to turn around to become disengaged. If the Attacker was engaged, then he was in one of the Defender's front hexes; forcing the Defender to retreat means he will become disengaged if he chooses to stand still, rather than advancing into the vacated hex.

Note if only standing still offers a disengagement option then following the victim doesn't offer disengagement only because the victim can turn to force that engagement.

Originally Posted by FireHorse

This is why the Question posed by Tom H. matters, because IF A gets to choose B's facing, then A's next attack is going to hurt even more than the last one did.

No, because no further attack can occur before the victim moves (and possibly changes facing) again.

It matters because the now disengaged attacker can move freely and/or enter HTH at lower risk.