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When a Chaos Spawn reaches a unit and counts as charging, the unit has to test for fear even though it had no chance to make a charge reaction. Right?

I played a game today and I was told that fear doesn't work on the first turn due to the unpredictable charge. Does it say this anywhere in the book? Can someone point it out to me or say let me know how to play this. It seems to me that the charge reaction has nothing to do with fear since fear is at the beginning of CC and not during the movement phase.

This is a big deal for spawn survivability. Thanks Rd.

Lol who told you that? All charging is now random anyway. But to answer your question you count it as if you declared a charge and made the distance. And fear tests are taken before the cc takes place. The person that told you that you don't get fear on your charge is wrong.

Fear tests are now taken in the assault phase. Inabilty to declare a charge reaction has NOTHING to do with testing for fear, so you still do it.

WHoever told you that was talking out of their rectum...

Maybe they were thinking terror. Terror doesn't work in conjunction with random charges, vis a vis the terror test upon charging.

POssibly - you dont run away from a random Terror causer such as the HPA

That's probably the mix up. We're not experts on the new rules by any means and my opponent is a stand up guy, so it was just a mistake, not a trick.

Thanks for pointing out the source of the confusion. I read the random movement and fear rules like 10 times, but didn't look at terror...