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After re-reading the assault rules I have question regarding multiple assaults.

Say I have unit that wants to charge into 2 units. I declare the charge into both and measure. I find one of the units is 5.5 inches away the other is 6.5 inches away. Because I can only charge 6 inches I am able to reach one of the units but not both, am I able to charge the one I could reach and not the other or does the charge just fail and I am not able to assault either unit?

thanks
Brave Rifles

BraveRifles wrote:
After re-reading the assault rules I have question regarding multiple assaults.

Say I have unit that wants to charge into 2 units. I declare the charge into both and measure. I find one of the units is 5.5 inches away the other is 6.5 inches away. Because I can only charge 6 inches I am able to reach one of the units but not both, am I able to charge the one I could reach and not the other or does the charge just fail and I am not able to assault either unit?

thanks
Brave Rifles

First you must declare and move the primary charge. If that makes it, then that combat results. If the secondary charge is too far away, the rules really don't cover this but since you are already in a combat I would assume you just fall back to the standard rules and get as close in to the combat that you did get into as possible.

Assaulting multiple units is a little counter intuitive if you're going from 4th to 5th, but it's simpler to deal with.

In 5th, you only declare one charge target and you need to get that first model you move into base to base with a model from that unit. If you come up short, no assault takes place.

Once you've established base to base with that model, there is no need to worry about declared targets because the only requirements are that you can get into base to base with it and that maintain your unit coherency. Every enemy unit which you've moved into base to base with becomes part of the assualt.

So, in you're situation if you make a mistake and you declare the charge against the unit 6.5" away and that first model comes up short, you're charge fails and it is too late to correct the situation.

Thanks, for the clarification, after reading the section after the game I was thinking we played it wrong and we had