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So here is a tactic i accidentally stumbled on in a game yesterday, using my tyranids:

I had a unit of Termagants in close combat with Grey Knight Terminators, as well as a tervigon. On my turn he caused some wounds that I took on termagants, and due to fearless we stayed locked in CC. On his turn, the tervigon killed the terminator in Base to base with it at initiative 1. Combat was again locked, so it came time to pile-in.

I piled in the termagants not in base contact FIRST, which kept all his models in base to base with little termagants, and also prevented the tervigon from making base contact with a 3" move. We checked the rulebook and it appeared as if the tervigon was now free to make a consolidate roll. I moved out of CC, leaving my little guys to handle the lone terminator that was left, and went to assault a sisters of battle unit that was contesting another objective.

so the question is, does that really work in 6th? Can you in an assault with multiple units, pile in to block off your other models from making base contact, and get them out of CC as long as they have no models in base to base?

Yes, same as it worked in 5th - just harder to pull off then as you got 6" of consolidation

Yes. If no member of the unit is engaged in the combat at the end of the final pile-in cobat ends (for that unit).

Gloomfang wrote:Yes. If no member of the unit is engaged in the combat at the end of the final pile-in cobat ends (for that unit).

Engaged? Or touching? Because unless you have enough gants to keep the tervigon 2" away from a touching model, he is still engaged? Does it specify?

culsandar wrote:

Gloomfang wrote:Yes. If no member of the unit is engaged in the combat at the end of the final pile-in cobat ends (for that unit).

Engaged? Or touching? Because unless you have enough gants to keep the tervigon 2" away from a touching model, he is still engaged? Does it specify?

Rulebook specifies a unit must have 1 model in base contact to be considered locked in combat. Since the tervigon was a different unit than the gants, and unable to b2b, I was able to consolidate out of cc.