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A necron overlord in CCB assaults a group of marines. What options do the marines have? Can they only attack the Overlord? Can they attack the CCB, ignoring the Overlord? Does the Overlord/CCB stay locked in combat or is he free to hop over the unit sweeping again, shooting, and assaulting them again?

In assaults, you strike the rider and if it's a vehicle (as is a CCB), it's not locked in CC. So if it charged you and you didn't break, you could just move out of CC in your turn and shoot it. Alternatively, if you assulted it and didn't kill it, it could just sweep attack you by moving over you next turn. In short, the vehicle portion is ignored in CC in lieu of the much more dangerous rider (similar to how you don't kill the mounts of cavalry/bikes).

abbazabba1920 wrote:In assaults, you strike the rider and if it's a vehicle (as is a CCB), it's not locked in CC. So if it charged you and you didn't break, you could just move out of CC in your turn and shoot it. Alternatively, if you assulted it and didn't kill it, it could just sweep attack you by moving over you next turn. In short, the vehicle portion is ignored in CC in lieu of the much more dangerous rider (similar to how you don't kill the mounts of cavalry/bikes).

There does not appear to be anything in the rules about a chariot or assaulting vehicles that removes the ability of the engaged unit to strike at the CCB instead of the rider.

Read the rules for chariots. it explains the chariot gives +1 to the riders save and I believe it might state it counts as one model. I need to look st it again to see the specifics.

It does not count as one model. Chariot rules just state that the rider is considered to be in b2b with any model that is b2b with chariot.

This means that marines can split their attacks between Lord and CBC as they wish.