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That is about it. Have at it Dakka.

You are forced to move your models in the Movement phase so as to try to end your phase in Coherency.

You are also forced to Run! your models in the Shooting phase so as to end that phase in Coherency.

To my knowledge there are no such restrictions placed on the unit in the Assault phase. Nor do I believe you are prohibited from assaulting (though I could be wrong on that one). I think you're good to go on that one.

-Yad

Short answer, yes, you can use your assault move to regain coherency.

In fact it is required that you restore coherency if it is possible during this move, to the extent that it is better for the model to end up in coherency with it's unit than it is for it to end up fighting with the opposing unit.

If I understand the question... if you're still out of coherency even after running, then you may assault if it brings your unit into coherency as long as the squad has FLEET. Otherwise, in your next movement phase, you're required to move as much as possible into coherency.

However, I don't think I've ever had this case happen to me before... o.O

To expand on Jefffar's point, so long as you follow the assault rules, which have stricter coherency rules than normal movement, coherency does say that you must regain coherecy at your earliest opportunity.

Thus, I would argue that if assault would bring you back into coherency, you MUST assault, as said assault movement would be the earliest opportunity to restore coherency. Obviously, if you are unable to fulfil all the assault movement requirements then you cant assault.

Assaulting (to paraphrase the rules) require that each model in the unit charging:
1) Get into base to base with an enemy (we will ignore the closest to closest and so on for this)
2) If you cannot get into base contact, get within 2" of someone who is in base contact who has already moved
3) If you can't even make within 2" of someone who is in base contact you must end up within coherency of models which have already moved

This leaves me with the impression that even though the coherency rules don't expressly require you to move into coherency in the assault phase, the assault rules themselves require coherency.

They do, because each model moved must end it's move in coherency with one that has already moved. Obviously the first model to move doesn't have to end in coherency, but every subsequent model must be able to trace a chain of coherency back to the first model moved.

whembly wrote:However, I don't think I've ever had this case happen to me before... o.O

Well, with the new idea that you can deploy a squad split in half on either end of the table to give your entire army 4+ cover, you might see it more often.

Yes it is okay to use an assault to restore coherency, if the unit in question is fleet. Since you have to run to restore coherency, if you are still not in coherency you can restore via assault, but since you would have to run in the shooting phase, you need fleet to assault.

rigeld2 wrote:

whembly wrote:However, I don't think I've ever had this case happen to me before... o.O

Well, with the new idea that you can deploy a squad split in half on either end of the table to give your entire army 4+ cover, you might see it more often.

It's not exactly a new idea. And nobody in their right mind would try it on the table in a serious game.

Actually I don't think you can. You can't make any optional choices until you have restored coherency and launching an assault seems like an optional choice to me.

Granted I would have no problem with an opponent doing this in a friendly game as it just makes sense that they are trying to get back together at any cost and stumbled into an enemy squad.

Akroma06 wrote:Actually I don't think you can. You can't make any optional choices until you have restored coherency and launching an assault seems like an optional choice to me.

Why do you say that? The only things the rules say you must do is move to restore coherency, and Run! to restore coherency. There's no restrictions on voluntary actions.

Akroma - no such rule exists, actually.

Thanks, I realize this is a very specific question.