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I was called out on a thread in a different section of the forum, i thought to bring the arguement here even though i beleive i am in the right.

The Turn after it arrived from reserves Via Deapstrike, I declare an Assault against an Ig tank (i want to say lemon russ, but i really dont know that army) and move my Trygon in to base contact with the vehicle. Due to poor planning on part of my opponent, the base of the Tyrgon also comes into contact with two more tanks that where not in a squadron, nor where declared in the assault. Based on the Multiple Combat rules on page 41 of the BRB I Split my attacks to 3 on the main tank, and 2 on each of the others, (Trygon prime gets 7 attacks on the charge) roll each 'set' of attacks separately, and proceed to wreck havoc on three tanks.


Was this a Legal Assault?

I can't see why this wouldn't be legal, bit then again I've never multi assaulted 3 units with 1 model before!!

Because you can't!

Top left page 34
"as usual the closest attacking model must be moved to contact the closest model in the enemy unit against which the assault was declared. Then the remaining models may assault models belonging to other enemy units."

While declaring an assault you're still forbidden to move into btb with other model that you are not assaulting and one may only assault another unit once the first has assaulted theirs.

I wish I brought my rulebook to work...


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Are there no exceptions for monstrous creatures or walkers for this?

ChrisCP wrote:Because you can't!

Top left page 34
"as usual the closest attacking model must be moved to contact the closest model in the enemy unit against which the assault was declared. Then the remaining models may assault models belonging to other enemy units."

While declaring an assault you're still forbidden to move into btb with other model that you are not assaulting and one may only assault another unit once the first has assaulted theirs.

I moved to btb contact with the model i declared to assault, given the amount of room i had for my model, the player did not need to move any of his to accomidate the large size of my model, and that size also brought two "bystanders" if you will into the fray, as during the assault phase i am allowed to declare attacks to any model that is in contact with mine.

Are there no exceptions for monstrous creatures or walkers for this?

Only thing mentioned in the MC section is the 2D6 + STR pen roll

Nah see, when you brought them bystanders into the fray you broke the 'no moving in btb with models you're not assaulting' cavet.

In other words if the only way for you to assault vehicle A with a Trygon is to move into contact with Vehicles B, C or D then you CANNOT assault vehicle A, as you would be breaking the first rule of the assault section.

You may ONLY contact the initial unit with the first model you move.

However, if you had (for example) a brood of two carnifexes then the first could contact the first tank and the second could get into b2b with as many tanks as it likes providing it stays in coherency.

In fact it HAS to get in contact with a new un-based unit if possible, second bullet point from memory