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I've got a question about movement, and nothing in the rules book agrees or disagrees with what I have to ask... so I'm asking it here.

Say I wish to move my squad of Eldar Guardians around some difficult terrain, but don't want to enter it. Can I move them 3' towards the terrain, and then pussyfoot around 3 inches?

On a similar note, for my Eldar Vehicles (Fast Skimmers...), if I want them to hold a position, yet get their coversave for Turboboost, am I allowed to have them move 24" "in a circle." Hence, effectively staying immobile, but still getting that coversave.

Basically my question is, does movement *have* to be straight?

Kouzuki wrote:Say I wish to move my squad of Eldar Guardians around some difficult terrain, but don't want to enter it. Can I move them 3' towards the terrain, and then pussyfoot around 3 inches?

You mean move arround the terrain? Sure. Or do you mean just move 3"? Cause that's also fine,

Kouzuki wrote:On a similar note, for my Eldar Vehicles (Fast Skimmers...), if I want them to hold a position, yet get their coversave for Turboboost, am I allowed to have them move 24" "in a circle." Hence, effectively staying immobile, but still getting that coversave.

Strangely enough, Yes, you can. Unlike Turboboosters, which states you must be 18" or more away to benefit, there is no requirement to be 18" or in fact any number of inches away from your starting point.

So yeah, you can Move 12", Pivot 180 degrees and move 11.9999" back. You will have moved Flat out, even though you ended up in a Similar Position (but not Identical [not that it matters, but it helps keep things less argumentative] as you moved 11.99999" on the second part)

Gwar! wrote:Strangely enough, Yes, you can. Unlike Turboboosters, which states you must be 18" or more away to benefit, there is no requirement to be 18" or in fact any number of inches away from your starting point.

So yeah, you can Move 12", Pivot 180 degrees and move 11.9999" back. You will have moved Flat out, even though you ended up in a Similar Position (but not Identical [not that it matters, but it helps keep things less argumentative] as you moved 11.99999" on the second part)

And i was pretty sure that wasn't allowed Have to check the rulebook again as soon as i get home

Thunder555 wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Strangely enough, Yes, you can. Unlike Turboboosters, which states you must be 18" or more away to benefit, there is no requirement to be 18" or in fact any number of inches away from your starting point.

So yeah, you can Move 12", Pivot 180 degrees and move 11.9999" back. You will have moved Flat out, even though you ended up in a Similar Position (but not Identical [not that it matters, but it helps keep things less argumentative] as you moved 11.99999" on the second part)

And i was pretty sure that wasn't allowed Have to check the rulebook again as soon as i get home

Yup, it is alowed. A lot of people I know remember the Turboboosters rule and apply it to skimmers, but they don't have any such rule

It also might be coming over from 4th where the Skimmers Moving Fast rules specifically said to count as moving over 6" you had to end up over 6" away from where you started, it seems that between the old rule and the similar turbo-boost rule it might be a mistake to leave out the distance requirement in this instance.

Either way it most certainly is legal.