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 BaconCatBug wrote:
You still finish the consolidation move even if you don't or can't move.

No you don't.

If cannot deploy a unit, you cannot finish deploying it either. If you cannot cast a psychic power, you cannot finish casting a psyking power either. If you cannot shoot with a unit, you cannot finish shooting with it (though you may do things instead of shooting, if the alternative has other pre-conditions, e.g. smoke).

You cannot skip the consolidate step. Even if a unit cannot move, it still goes through the consolidate step, even if it does not move.

You finish your consolidate move when the consolidate step ends, even if you don't move.

I do see where the argument that it doesn't count is coming from, however.

Consolidation is moving up to 3". Moving 0" is perfectly fine with the stipulation.

You consolidate even if you don't move.

Good old GW and their habit of imprecise rules language. If you really believe GW means the unit has to actually move to make a Consolidation Move, play it that way. I sincerely doubt that is GW’s intent. Everyone prepare for a Grinding Advance style Errata

 BaconCatBug wrote:
You cannot skip the consolidate step. Even if a unit cannot move, it still goes through the consolidate step, even if it does not move.

You finish your consolidate move when the consolidate step ends, even if you don't move.

I do see where the argument that it doesn't count is coming from, however.

Nobody ever argued to skip the consolidation step.

Not sure why you keep bringing up that straw argument.

Just because a step or phase is completed, doesn't mean all conceivable actions an army could take in a given step all happened.

If it did, it'd mean I could never complete a fight phase ever in the game wihout all my miniatures in the army fighting, irrespective of whether they are actually eligible to do so due to range or even being on the table.

topaxygouroun i wrote:
Consolidation is moving up to 3". Moving 0" is perfectly fine with the stipulation.

You consolidate even if you don't move.

Except the FAQ explicitly says, quote, "and so cannot move". If there's no way for you to end up closer due to being in base-to-base contact. No move means no move (not even a 0" move).

And it doesn't matter if you don't actually move, you still end your consolidation move at the end of the consolidation step.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
And it doesn't matter if you don't actually move, you still end your consolidation move at the end of the consolidation step.

No. You don't. If you cannot make a move (not even a 0" move), you end your consolidation step without having done a move. Not started one. Not finished one.

If you end the "resolve combat" step, with your army still being 24" away from all of the opponents armies, you simply end the step without having done any attacks. Not started them. Not finished them. You don't get to make attacks (and finish them) irrespective of any other pre-conditions, simply because it's the appropriate step where you would've done them, if other pre-conditions had been met (e.g. you'd had models in 1").

 BaconCatBug wrote:
And it doesn't matter if you don't actually move, you still end your consolidation move at the end of the consolidation step.

The unit has ended its consolidation moves at the end of the consolidation step. Whether individual models make a consolidation move is a different matter, however.