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This came up at the end of another thread but what happens to models that in their pile in move come into base contact with a model with whip coils. Are they then attacking or reduced to 1 at that point?

They would pile in at their normal initiative as they arent in base but would then strike at I1 in the assault for being in base contact.

Thats the way I see it as well.

Would the give them another consolidation then?

THe only way the could Pile In would be if, at I1, they are not in base any longer.

Which could only occur if the whip coil models are dead, meaning they are no longer I1. So they couldnt even attack!

Here's a more fun option. A multiple combat involving Wraiths with Whip Coils and Warriors on one side vs. a tactical squad with PW Sarge on the other. Sarge is in base contact with only the warriors after his pile in move, and he kills some. Wraiths make their pile in move, and now one is in base contact with Sarge, reducing his initiative to 1. Sarge survives the Wraiths attacks.

Initiative 1 is reached, Sarge is forced by the rules to attack again. Is there anything preventing a model from making attacks twice in a Fight sub-phase?

Userarm wrote:They would pile in at their normal initiative as they arent in base but would then strike at I1 in the assault for being in base contact.

This is the way we are playing it. We had a wraith die in I4 and the guy he was touching was I4 we just had him attack immediately. I called it Ipre-3 lol. There are going to be some bugs to work out this is one of them.