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Hello everyone,

New to Warhammer, and was in my local GW store talking with the store manager, asking advice about charging/defending from being charged.

He mentioned that you had to see 50% of the unit you were charging in order to charge it. I was confused by this, and showed him Page 18 of the rule book where it says "Unit may only declare a charge if at least one model in the unit can see at least one enemy model in the opposing unit" then mentions line of sight.

He said "Yep, you need line of sight. It's in there somewhere, trust me."

Didn't have time to go into it further, but on Page 8 of the rulebook, it shows a unit of goblins that can only see the tail end of 2 models, and it says they have line of sight.

I've heard the "50%" rule from 2 people now, and can't figure out where it says that in the rules.

It doesn't. You just need to see any bit of it.

The 50% rule confusion may stem from the rules regarding which arc you're charging into (front/side/rear - charge which ever arc majority of your unit is in). That's my guess.

But yeah, no need for "at least 50% visible"

Edited to clarify my point a bit more.

Yeah....I don't know where they came up with that rule, but it doesn't exist.

Pure fiction. Guy needs to read the book he's selling. At least before answering rules questions, anyway.

It's in there somewhere, trust me."

bs alarms should be screaming at this!

Typical Redshirt crap. NEVER believe a GW sales staffperson about rules....ever.