The only Combat Resolution modifier which is calculated at the beginning of each round of combat is rank bonus. All other modifiers are calculated at the end of each round of combat.

Rank bonus is claimed and calculated at the beginning of the Close Combat phase, so the rank bonus is nullified this turn. The flank/rear bonus is calculated at the end of the Close Combat phase, so the attacking unit can't claim it since it has been reduced to Unit Strength less than 5.

Yes, the example is wrong because the Empire should no longer gain a flank bonus.

Yes, as long as it has unengaged ranks or files.

No. In the Redress the Ranks section on page 76 it states "...affords victors the chance to adjust their formation by expanding their frontage or lapping around." No mention of turning to face the attackers is made. Once your unit is hit in the flank or rear, your unit's facing is stuck until the combat is over.

They strike in charging order (see page 16 of the Warhammer Annual 2002 for a fuller explanation). View online.

Yes to both. See the White Dwarf article "A Commentary on the Finer Points of Lapping Round" for more detail.

From the back of the unit, not from those models lapping around - unless of course there are no models in the back rank!

No. You can lap around with a single Unit Strength 1 model to the flank (or rear) of the enemy and still earn the flank (or rear) bonus. It is the Unit Strength of the entire unit that is required to be 5+ to earn the bonus, not the models lapping around.

No. Lapping around does not negate the enemy's rank bonus.

This is considered to be a true formation change.

No, roll off until you have a winner.

All units involved in a combat are subject to combat resolution and resulting Break tests. However, if a unit is no longer in contact with the enemy due to the elimination of the only enemy unit it was in contact with, it does not count as being in combat in subsequent turns and thus can charge, shoot, be shot at, and so on.

No, there are still models remaining in the unit it is engaged in combat with. In this case, the easiest thing to do is 'fudge it' slightly - just slide the flanking unit across a little so that it is in contact with at least one enemy.

No! If one side is completely wiped out, the other side has won with no need for a Break Test.

When fighting rank and file troops with more than one Wound, use the same procedure you would for normal troops. Roll to hit, roll to wound, make saves. After this, roll for each wounding hit to see how many actual wounds are inflicted by the weapon. The maximum number of wounds per hit is the number of Wounds the enemy models have. For example, if you have a magic sword that does D3 wounds and are fighting Fellbats (which have 2 Wounds each), you would have to count results of 3 as 2 wounds inflicted. Once the total number of wounds have been rolled, add them all up and remove whole models as normal. To continue the previous example, if you did 1, 2 and 2 wounds from three hits, this is 5 wounds and so you remove two Fellbats and one Fellbat has a single wound remaining.

To kill a Champion in close combat, the enemy must generally specifically allocate attacks at the Champion. Unless specifically noted otherwise (as in the case of the Champion in a Tomb Kings Light Chariot unit), if no attacks are allocated at the Champion, the Champion will still be killed if enough wounds to kill all rank and file members of the unit are inflicted. While Champions may have differing weapon skills, abilities, and in some instances carry magic items, they are still considered to be rank and file members of the unit.

No.

In a non-challenge situation the excess unsaved wounds are lost. Per the Warhammer Rulebook Errata excess unsaved wounds on a Champion no longer carry over onto the rank & file. Note however that in a challenge situation, the enemy can score up to +5 overkill points over the Champion's wounds characteristic.

No, they cannot. Champions remain part of the command group at the centre of the front rank of their unit.

No. If attacks are allocated against ordinary troops, then any excess wounds caused by those attacks are not carried over onto enemy characters fighting alongside them.

Yes. The Standard Bearer/Battle Standard Bearer must be alive at the end of the combat to provide the +1 CR and/or the combat resolution effects of a magic banner he/she was carrying. This includes banners that increase rank bonuses or negate rank bonuses.

If the Standard Bearer is removed as a casualty, then the enemy will only get the victory points for capturing it if the unit is destroyed completely in the same round of combat, or the unit flees and is pursued in that same round of combat.

With a strict interpretation of the rule (and therefore the one that keeps it closest to the basic rules), the unit has not been "charged" by an enemy with Unit Strength 5 or more, and therefore has not been disrupted enough to lose its rank bonus. However, you will still get flank and rear bonuses as normal.

Yes. See the Warhammer Annual 2002. View online.

If a pursuing unit would move into a fleeing unit, the unit will make another flee move and will either get away or be wiped out if it can't outdistance its foe.

The pursuing unit will go around that unit if at all possible. This may involve an amount of "fudging" of both units (perhaps to make this happen, you could push the fleeing unit slightly to the side so that the pursuers can get past them, for example). If utterly impossible, as a last resort, halt the pursuers 1" away from the fleeing unit (remembering that they still catch and kill the other unit if they rolled higher than its flee roll, regardless of how far they actually move).

Yes, any unit that wipes out its enemy in the first round of combat may make an overrun move.

If a unit performing an overrun would move into a fleeing unit, the unit will make another flee move and will either get away or be wiped out if it can't outdistance its foe.