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Difference between Rout/Shatter and benefits ???? Benefits ??? Puzzled that stacks can retreat into a empty ZOC and that when surrounded defeated units can jump like a kangaroo and rout elsewhere, rather than be destroyed (as it should seem.)

they will surrender and not rout if they begin isolated.. if not the rout represent troops excaping the pocket.. its an abstraction

A routed unit is disorganized and can't attack launch a deliberate attack when that player's turn comes up.  The routing also increases retreat losses and decreases morale by an extra point.

A shattered unit is dead; damaged elements are captured, undamaged elements may be captured depending on various factors, Soviet infantry/cavalry elements may become partisans, surviving elements go back to the pool.  See 15.9.2 of the manual.