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The enemy is 1 inch from the tank, which is longer than it is wide, meaning for it to rotate behind the barricade it would touch the enemy. Can the tank rotate and move to tank shock or is it trapped?

This just happened to me in a game, where I wanted to tank shock a single enemy model away from the objective. We couldn't agree on a resolution so just rolled for it, but i'm curious to know what should have happened.

Here's a picture of the scenario.


(bottom of this picture is the table edge)

Considering you are supposed to pivot on the center point, I'm not entirely sure how you got the tank into that exact position to begin with.

The only way I can imagine is if the objective wasn't impassible and you rolled over it coming from the left of the image.

Regardless, assuming you somehow got there, I can't see how you could pivot the tank to face the enemy without coming into contact with both the building and barricade.

I'd say that what you wanted to do wasn't possible.

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Now, let's assume that the building and barricade weren't blocking you from performing an actual pivot. The unit 1" away *might* stop you. It depends on what happened before. If the unit had assaulted you in the previous turn, then you could pivot and push them out of the way. (assaulting vehicle rules).

However, if they didn't assault you and instead just stopped 1" away, then the pivot is blocked (normal vehicle movement rules) and the TS can't proceed.

I agree, looks like you're stuck there except to move straight forward. No tank shock for you.

However, pivoting does not count as movement, so that does throw a monkey wrench in there. I doubt that your drawing is to scale, but it looks like you could aim it diagonal to the building and barricade and still not touch the enemy model, and still be 1" away from the enemy modela also, at which point you could declare your tank shock and still be perfectly legal.

Also, just as a side note, unless you and your opponent had declared that vehicles couldn't drive through the barricade, then you would simply take a DT test if you did start your movement within it before the tank shock.