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I was told rather matter of factly, that you must declare a muliti-assault. Where is this in the rule book?

My understanding was that you have to declare the primary unit you are assaulting. Then when moving the assaualting unit, you may attempt to multi-assault.

Can someone please verify?

you are correct, they are wrong. However if you're attempting a Multi Assault and one of the units is in Diff Terrain you must roll for it, and apply the max number towards both

The person is "mistaken" - you NEVER declare a multiassault, you can only declare assaults.

Best way to handle someone who says that you must declare a muliti-assault is to ask them to show you where in the rules that it says this.

They will not be able to find such a rule.

That is partially right.

You declare an assault, then move the first model, then you can choose to multi-assault with the rest of the squad if you choose to, you still have to declare this, although its only so your opponent knows that you've done it, he cant say no cos you didn't declare it

*DR is right, there is no rule, its more of a formality

Hukoseft wrote:That is partially right.

You declare an assault, then move the first model, then you can choose to multi-assault with the rest of the squad if you choose to, you still have to declare this, although its only so your opponent knows that you've done it, he cant say no cos you didn't declare it

*DR is right, there is no rule, its more of a formality

You don't have to declare that you're assaulting the 2nd unit. You just move your models into base-to-base with an enemy model from a different unit and then you're in a multi-assault! No declaration is required (unless your playgroup has you openly declare each and every time you move a model).

To muddy the waters a bit, I think that following the rules for moving models into assault closely. You have to multi assault in some situations as you are required to move models into base to base contact with as many enemy models as possible. - it doesn't specify that they must all be in the squad you declared assault against - just that you contact as many as possible.

So in a situation where all enemy models in the target squad in charge range are already in base to base - you would have to charge another squad if their models were in range

HAve I got this wrong?

Kapitan Montag wrote:So in a situation where all enemy models in the target squad in charge range are already in base to base - you would have to charge another squad if their models were in range

That is one (IMO technically correct) interpretation of the RAW... although from my experience most players tend to assume that multi-assaults are optional.