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Is this legal? Ran into a situation in a tournament where my slannish flying demon prince (which isn't even an IC) was equa-distant from a 6 man unit of dire avengers and the waveserpent that had transported them. I wanted to engage the dire avengers and put all my attacks on the waveserpent. From what I can see, as long as I assault the closest unit (pg34 assaulting multiple enemy units) I can do this, and with the lash of torment I moved the dire avengers so that they are exactly the same distance away from my demon prince, and that if I contac the dire avenger I'lll make contactwith the waveserpent at the same time. Assuming the assault is legal, may I split my attacks between the two units?

We resolved it by just having me attack the dire avengers, and later on I cut up the wave serpent.

No. A Unit consisting of a Single Model may never assault more than one unit.

This is because of the way the assault rules work, in that within the charging unit, the closest model to the enemy that is the declared target must move into BTB contact with THAT unit only. It is only then that the rest of the unit get a chance to engage other units. Single Models are still units, albeit units of 1 model, so do not have a chance to multi assault.

In the situation you describe there, you would have to declare either the wave serpent or the Dire Avengers as the target for your assault, then move into BTB contact with the closest model/ point while also remaining more than 1" away from the other unit, so it is a moot point anyway since it cannot be legally in BTB contact with both the transport and the unit at once.

And dont forget that you have to be in BTB or within 2" of a model in the same unit to get any attacks.

And now a couple of quotes to back up my babbling:

Page 34 wrote:All of the models in an assaulting unit make their assault move following the same rules as in the Movement phase, with the exception that they may be moved within 1" of enemy models. This means that assaulting models may still not move through friendly or enemy models, may not pass through gaps narrower than their base, and may not move into base contact with enemy models from a unit they are not assaulting.

Page 34 wrote:As usual the closest attacking model must be moved to contact the closest model in the enemy unit against which the assault was declared. Then remaining models can assault models belonging to other enemy units, as long as they keep following the rules for moving assaulting models.

Bold added for the important bitz
Edits: Emperors Bowels I cannot spell.

I'll agree with Gwar on this one regarding not being able to assault two different units with a single model.
However, if you should happen to find your model in btb with two different units, then yes, you can split your attacks between the two units.

don_mondo wrote:I'll agree with Gwar on this one regarding not being able to assault two different units with a single model.
However, if you should happen to find your model in btb with two different units, then yes, you can split your attacks between the two units.

Aye, that is perfectly legal and possible. That situation can only occur though as a result of the enemy charging you , so you end up in BtB with an IC and Unit or 2 different units.