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Ok, so this came up in a game recently.

Overlord and 2 immortals charge a MC.
MC challenges and OL refuses.
MC kills both immortals and puts a wound on OL.
OL initiative comes up and is in B2B with MC.
OL "cannot strike any blows" because of refused challenge, so decides to use his Tesseract "in lieu of" striking blows.

Is that allowed?

Pg 64 says that when a challenge is refused the model nominated cannot strike any blows that turn.

Tesseract rule says, the bearer uses the tesseract in lieu of making any close combat attacks.

I dunno I can see both side to this. What say you?

If he can't strike any blows, he has no blows to exchange 'in lieu of'.

it would be a huge stretch to allow that IMO as its just trying to manipulate the wording to try and make something fit. The spirit of the game is that refusing a challenge means your doing nothing.

'in lieu' means in place of. If you can't strike any blows, you can't do anything in place of them. So I would say no, if you refuse a challenge you can't use the Tesseract.

RaptorsTallon wrote:'in lieu' means in place of. If you can't strike any blows, you can't do anything in place of them. So I would say no, if you refuse a challenge you can't use the Tesseract.

that was the argument for it actually. The rule says that the model "cannot strike any blows" not that the model lost his attacks. So the player said since, I can not swing at you then I will use the tesseract which is not striking any blows at the MC.


Thinking about it I can see his point, but i also think that GW intended the model to not be able to do anything that turn.

Lets look at the entire sentence: "The chosen model cannot strike blows at all this turn, as he is thereafter putting all of his effort into staying clear of the vengeful enemy character." Since the OL in this case would be steering clear of the Nid, he cannot use the Tesseract.