[Mass Combat] What's the point of Raiding the Logistics Force?

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

This doesn't appear to have any bearing on the Raid battle strategy as described on MC35. Any time you could damage the logistics tail by that method, you could have done proportional damage to the enemy's main body.

Maneuvering around the enemy's force without giving battle doesn't correspond to any of the battle strategies. If you don't engage, presumably you don't have a battle.

I don't think there are any rules governing interdicting logistics forces outside of combat, either.

It's not that you don't engage - it's that you don't engage the knights/first line armoured regiments in his main body, but instead go after the logistic and support units in his rear echelon that are easier to destroy and don't hit back as hard.
Defeating an enemy by engaging his army is the most costly strategy possible for winning a war (or, indeed, losing it) as was proved in last century for those that hadn't worked it out already.