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Can't seem to find a rule for this in the BRB

When a unit is about to move a random distance f.e. run or Slow and purposeful can you roll to find out the distance it will cover and then move another unit before moving this?

Say I have 3 Meganobz that are 6 inches from a Trukk. They need a 4 on their SnP move to embark and then the trukk can zoom of to get them to where they are going. Could I make the SnP roll first, see how far they will be able to move that turn and then: if I get that 4 embark them on the trukk or else if I roll less move the trukk first so that it gets within 1" and then they can embark (without the trukk being able to move any further of course)

Similarly 2 units are about to run. I dont want these units to be more than 4 inches from each other. Can I declare they will both run, then roll to see how far each unit can run and after that move them? This way if I get a 6 and a 1 I refrain from running the first unit the full 6 in order to keep them close?

As the BRB says on page 11, you can't start to move a unit go on to another one, and then return to the original to finish the move.

Right you are! However I have not started to move any unit. I have only checked how far that unit can move in this turn..
or not?

You're going to have to prove that picking a unit and determining the distance it can move is not part of the move, then.

Yup, once you pick the unit to move, you have started that unit's movement. If you roll the dice and then move onto another unit, that first unit's movement is finished.

I have played against a few people that go across the table, pointing to their S&P models and rolling for them, then setting the dice next to them. This is a bit of fudging the rules too, imo. I wish they would simply roll then move. If you know your first unit can't make it and your second unit can, it will most certainly affect the way you play out those units and, therefore, the rest of your turn.

Roll as you go. What the OP is saying is almost the same thing as disembarking, moving the transport, then moving your troops. You can't start a movement and then come back to it later.

What the OP is saying is almost the same thing as disembarking, moving the transport, then moving your troops. You can't start a movement and then come back to it later.

Puma713 I get what you are saying but that is a really bad analogy. What I question is nothing like what you are comparing it too. I have only checked to see how far the unit can move in it's movement fase what you are suggesting is a definitely illegal double move (disembarkation=movement)

Except you have started to move the unit; as soon as you roll for difficult terrain EVEN IF you dont then physcially move you still "count as" moving.

Ass S&P requires you to roll for DT you cannot argue that you are not beginning the units move.

Great! Ty