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Scenario:

Eldar player moved behind a squad of my boyz and a Deff Dread. He disembarked and did the nasty with his Dire Avengers (Doom, Bladestorm Etc.) -- With the re-rolls all said and done he killed about 15 boyz.

I immobilised his wave serpent which landed behind his avengers, and then I moved my Boyz and Deff Dread towards him and killed off enough (Skorcha on the Dread) of his units to force a leadership, which he unfortunately managed to fail.

The VERY crudely drawn pic shows the jist of the terrain and positioning.

He rolled a 6 for his fallback move, which puts him right into my Boyz/Dread. -- There was enough room for him to run around my Boyz and squeeze between them and the board edge on the right, and since this was technically the shortest route to his own board edge, he had to go that way, but doing so and rolling a 6 for movement put him 1" or less from my models.

He thought he could move backward around the bunker, but I argued that would count as doubling back, which from the Trapped! wording makes it sound like he is not allowed to do so.

Was he Trapped! and subsequently, the unit died?

Hope this wasn't too confusing.

Can he squeeze in between the WS and the bunker? If so, then he is not Trapped!

"Doubling-back" doesn't care about actual distance moved closer to the board edge. What it actually cares about is how your movement takes you from the start position. If, in order to move the whole 6", he'd have to move one way, and then move the opposite direction (effectively going nowhere/less than 6") then he would be Trapped!

The picture in the rulebook actually demonstrates this, and the FAQ specifically addresses the point that moving away from the baord edge does not result in Trapped! on its own.

He can move around the bunker. By "doubling back" they mean that the unit is unable to move anywhere during the fallback move except back and forth in their own tracks.

They clarify this in the main rulebook FAQ, by stating that to be destroyed the unit has to be completely surrounded. Page 2:

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1620222a_40k_Rulebook_version_1_2.pdf

somerandomdude wrote:Can he squeeze in between the WS and the bunker? If so, then he is not Trapped!

"Doubling-back" doesn't care about actual distance moved closer to the board edge. What it actually cares about is how your movement takes you from the start position. If, in order to move the whole 6", he'd have to move one way, and then move the opposite direction (effectively going nowhere/less than 6") then he would be Trapped!

The picture in the rulebook actually demonstrates this, and the FAQ specifically addresses the point that moving away from the baord edge does not result in Trapped! on its own.

The wave serpent was pretty close to the bunker, that bases of his models scraped the edges of the bunker/WS (moving the serpent slightly) so that was another "iffy" move. If the WS was too close to the bunker and he couldn't squeeze through, then he would have been trapped for sure?

I also had another squad of boyz that I could move to block him from the other side so he would have been trapped either way, but getting clarification on doubling back and how he has to move during fallback was something that was confusing.

As the FAQ specifies, the unit has to be completely surrounded by enemy models and/or impassible terrain, to the extent that it has nowhere to go except back and forth or in circles in the same patch of ground.

If he has to move the waveserpent and can't get around the ork boys, while staying at least 1" away from them then he's trapped. But if there is enough room to get around the wavesepent then he can go that direction without being considered trapped.

As vox said, if there was room around the wave serpent, either between the bunker and the WS, or between the edge of the board and the WS then they are not trapped.

The unit that is falling back is only trapped if it it totally surrounded with nowhere to go.

Of course If the bunker was just difficult terrain and not a 'Building' then they could just run through the terrain.

The bunker was impassible terrain right? If not they could simply fall back through the bunker.

The bunker was treated like a vehicle and had a unit of lootas embarked in it.

As long as there is any possible route to move the rolled distance, the unit is not trapped.

Jidmah wrote:As long as there is any possible route to move the rolled distance, the unit is not trapped.

+1. This is the way I always explain it to people who are unsure about the rule.