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So my Warhammer friends are in a debate that isn't settled, the Dire Avengers have their skill defend and my friends say the effects last forever because it doesn't say that it stops. So does this mean I will loose that attack till end of game or till the squad I'm in combat with dies or leaves combat?

It effects THE unit/units in combat with the dire avengers as long as they are in combat with them. If they slaughter your avengers and segway into guardians the defend power is gone.

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:It effects THE unit/units in combat with the dire avengers as long as they are in combat with them. If they slaughter your avengers and segway into guardians the defend power is gone.

Segue (just for future reference, Shoggoth).

puma713 wrote:

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:It effects THE unit/units in combat with the dire avengers as long as they are in combat with them. If they slaughter your avengers and segway into guardians the defend power is gone.

Segue (just for future reference, Shoggoth).

No, he had it right the first time, it is Segway.

He models all of his infantry on small two wheeled chariots....

It lasts as long as the Exarch is alive and in combat.

I would claim that since the power states that "models directing their attacks towards the exarch's squad lose one attack in each assault phase," it only persists if those models continue to direct their attacks at the exarch's squad, despite the fact that he is alive and in combat.

Because it says "directing" and not "have directed," that leads me to believe that the penalty does not carry over from last round.

So if you are involved in a multiple combat, you can choose to attack a different unit and not suffer the penalty. Or, if you kill the dire avengers, and attack something else, again, you're no longer "directing" attacks at the exarch's squad.