Submitted by W. W. Winfield

If you want to buy time you can try the "molasses" move to slow down advancing enemy units. The trick is to try to get them to ENGAGE with your unit, which will stop their advance, while your unit still has movement ability. The flaw in the rules is if a unit moves into enemy ZOC it's movement must end, but the enemy is not affected.

Example:

• blue unit at 5-21. Red unit at 9-21 and wants to advance on 5-21.  (frame 1)
   
• Blue unit advances to 6-21 then holds for several pulses.
  (frame 2)
   
• Red unit advances to 8-21. The next move to 7-21 will cause an ENGAGE which will end any more movement for red. (frame 3)
   
• But blue can still move away, having halted red's advance.(frame 4)

 The timing is important, and the enemy can counter this if they suspect you are a "molasses lover"
 

Molasses. The name of a SAS battlefield tactic. This brings on new words such as Molass. "We will molass them for a turn" molassed and even molasser. Then you have Vanilla molasses, molasses lover and molasses advance.

But why is it called molasses anyway? Renowned CWOL archivist Steven Mathena claims to have been at hand when the term was first coined. And of course he kept a record. It seems the CSA navy was using the tactic with some success and then CSA President Scott Rogers is supposed to have said "Maybe these unarmed defenders need names that reflect their job, like CSS Molasses or CSS Stymie. :-)"

The term Stymie didn't stick and Molasses did.
Now you know.