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Okay, ran into this over a weekend tournament. I know that magic missiles are not able to be cast into close combat. However, does the spell actually have to say that it CAN be cast into combat for it to do so? i.e. Nurgle, Rot Glorious Rot says "this can even affect units that are engaged in combat". Some spells don't say whether they can or can't. The one that came up was Tzeentch Infernal Gateway. It just says "target an enemy unit up to 24' away". It doesn't say you can't target an engaged unit. Anyone know the exact ruling for this kind of thing? a place in the BRB im missing?

So the questions is:

Does the spell being cast have to actually say that it can target a unit in close combat in order to do so?

Thanks

Yes. Page 107 under casting spells

However while you cannot TARGET a unit in CC unless the spell specifically says so, you can affect units in CC just fine.

Area of Effect /= Target.

So Rot Glorious Rot never targets a unit, so the prohibition is irrelevant - it just affects all units in a radius. Winds of Undeath etc are the same.