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Was doing some reading and this seemed to be an issue. Can a single character of mc assualt more than one unit in a single assault?
I had always believed they cannot. However this seemed to come up and I wanted to be clear if I was correct on this ruling.

Here is what the rulebook says pg 34. "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."

Nope. You posted the applicable rule. "remaining models can assault models belonging to other enemy units". Ummmm, there are no remaining models if the assaulting unit consists of a single model.................

thanks. I wont mention the site i was reading on, but when they.... the experts get it wrong, I start questioning if I missed something somewhere.

Thanks again.

Hmmm, musta been BoLS..........

I suppose something like a trygon might be able to contact the nearest model and also be able to contact a model in another unit....

Very difficult to do since you can't move enemy models out of the way.

don_mondo wrote:Nope. You posted the applicable rule. "remaining models can assault models belonging to other enemy units". Ummmm, there are no remaining models if the assaulting unit consists of a single model.................

So what happens if "the shortest path" to an enemy model leaves you in base contact with another unit?

This happened to me during a game against Tyranids a while ago. My Deff Dread moved into base contact with a unit of Hormagaunts, following all the assault rules, and ended up also in base contact with a unit of Genestealers. We decided that he was locked with both of them.

I'm not looking at my rule book atm, but I believe if you're in base-to-base with any unit during the Assault move you are locked. I think you played it right.

Nope. There is a rule in there that seems meaningless. It basically says you can't get into base with any unit you are not assaulting. Normally this is a matter of definition, except for the *first* model.

So the first model assaults the 'target' unit, is not a remaining model, so can't assault a separate unit, and can't get into base with any unit it is not assaulting.

Which, kinda makes my hive tyrants grumpy....