A few rules questions

Yes, Impact and Phalanx count.

Your next paragraph is correct as well. Makes sense you put 'keep fighting' in quotes, because in this game each combat is separate. This means that the first charging unit had to back up enough to let the other move away or shoot or charge back. There is still the one-full-quality-melee-per-turn restriction, so you are right that they will hit on 6s. But the second unit still gets the benefit of charging back.

I'm not sure what you mean about melee attacks singling out heroes. I suppose if the hero was isolated enough that much of the unit is not in the fight you could more easily affect the hero, but you are playing Regiments, and that might be harder to do. I've wondered if it would be interesting for heroes to be able to choose targets, so heroes might fight against each other. If the banner rule was a specific figure, instead of a trait of the unit, you could have the hero knock down the banner, which would be thematic. But I suspect balance would be thrown.

A Hero with Fast or Flying could join such a unit, but the other figures would not gain the benefit. I think it would just affect how you moved that particular figure, with the regular spacing still being kept. Similarly, I think a hero without Fast that joined a Fast unit might fall behind in the unit, or might slow the unit down so as not to be left behind.

andy

I'll leave intent to OPA.

andy