Quote:I THINK it means merely that IF you activate a demoralized unit, THEN you must try to recover it, BUT it's possible and legal that you don't activate it (because you run out of activations) and therefore don't try to recover it... right? The essential point of the rule is simply that IF you have any demoralized units, then you're not allowed to pass... right? But you're not FORCED to activate specifically demoralized units if you have a choice... or are you?
A demoralized unit MUST attempt to recover during the course of a turn. At some point you will need to activate the unit and attempt to recover it. You may not PASS as an activation if you have unactivated demoralized units. The only way you can avoid this the activation of these units is if you are playing with the Fog of War rules. Meaning that if FoW is rolled the game turn ends whether you have recovered the units or not.