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So, a situation came up in a game yesterday that we were quite surprised we hadn't encountered before. Can we have some clarification?



1. Perversely Pink Phil, vile Chaos Marine of Slaanesh, charges into a unit of grots.
2. The unit of grots reacts, surrounding Phil, since they must all attempt to get into base contact. All of them can fight, though, as they are within 2" of a model from their unit who IS in base contact.
3. Combat happens, nobody breaks, Phil is still surrounded.
4. The nearby Big Scary Meganobz want to charge Phil and end the combat, but they can't since none of the Meganobz can get into base contact. Their charges automatically fail.
5. There is no way the grots can make room for the Meganobz, as in all pile-in, consolidate moves or whatever, they have to get as many models in base contact as possible.
6. Phil happily continues killing Grots until there aren't enough left to surround him, at which point the Meganobz can finally attack.

Correct?

I believe so.

If you cannot move into base contact with any models, for any reason, you cannot assault.

So in this instance it could end up that Phil breaks the grots, they fall back and he is then free to assault or be assaulted. Or he could kill all but one or two, again allowing the meganobz that abiltiy to attack.

Until that happens the meganobz just get to cheer the grots on!

This is entirely correct,. It is one of those situations that just sounds dumb but I don't really see another way to resolve it other than the RaW?

Correct, the Grotz get in the way and the Meganobz cannot assault.

yeah,
That's what we thought.
In the end the grots couldn't manage to kill Phil and he contested the objective saving the day for slaanesh...
Git.

Panic...