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Greetings to all the folks out there! I having a small problem with working a ruling, today we had a three player game and an ordie was shot into two enemy units locked in close combat. Is it a fair assessment to assume I can target an enemy unit if its locked in close combat with an additional enemy unit??

Thanks guys!

There are no real rules for your situation.

The BRB assumes only 2 opposing factions.

You will need to house rule this situation for future games.

That being said if we were to play a game, I would have no issue with you firing into a close combat that did not include any friendly troops. But ask your opponent before the game because YMMV.

No. You can't target units in close combat. though the rules were not designed for 1v1v1 games so that would have to be a rule you guys worked out between yourselves.

You can however scatter onto an assault and all units under the blast would be hit.

So in short, you would need to establish a house rule reguarding firing onto two opponents locked in close combat together.

See I'm pretty lenient to rules on the fly, especially with almost everything being changed in 6th edition. We took it to a roll off and played that it was ok, I just wanted to make sure their wasn't a definitive answer one way or another, I'm still finding it hard to navigate this tome of a rulebook. haha. Thanks again.

The last place I saw rules for a 1v1v1 game was in the 5th ed Big rule book (not small). In that scenario is was legal to shoot at units locked in cc as long as you did not have any units involved. Although written for 5th ed, it could easily be played using the 6th edition rules.

As others have said, there is no official rule.

We often play 1v1v1 and even 1v1v1v1 games where it's just a giant free for all. Those games add a completely new strategic dimension to them that raises the bar quite a bit.

Anyway, our rules are that you can intentionally launch ordnance and even shoot into close combat, as long as your models are not involved. For template and blast weapons, you look at what is underneath.

For shooting, you work out the wound allocation as if it was a giant blob run by one person (instead of having 2 or 3 players involved). In other words, you follow the normal rules about wounding the closest models first.

Happyjew wrote:The last place I saw rules for a 1v1v1 game was in the 5th ed Big rule book (not small). In that scenario is was legal to shoot at units locked in cc as long as you did not have any units involved. Although written for 5th ed, it could easily be played using the 6th edition rules.

This is the way I would play it. When there is no rule for a situation, I always try to determine the ruling based on what I think the rule is trying to convey. If your friendly troops were locked in CC, then you cannot drop the template on them because you would be afraid to kill your own troops in the process (this reasoning is emphasized by Karamazov's special rule). However, if the two units locked in CC both belong to your opponents, then most military comanders would be inclined to fire away, and then call for high-fives.