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Situation: one big unit (a squad of Ork boyz) is locked in combat with two separate units (two separate squads of Assault Marines). The Nob is currently fighting squad 1.

Now, when the Assault Marines roll their attacks, squad 2's sergeant rolls a 6 to hit, thus making it a precision strike. Is he allowed to then allocate that wound against the Ork Nob, who is ONLY engaged with squad 1?

Logic says that no, he can't, but unless I'm missing something (or misreading it, that might be the case), so long as a model is engaged, period, anything with precision can strike against him. Could someone point me in the right direction here?

Pg 63, under precision strikes, must be engaged.

I think the relevant rules are p63, Precision Strike, and p23 that defines who is engaged. The PS can only be against an engaged opponent, so you need to work out if the nob is engaged with the sgt's unit (within 2" of a model in b2b contact with a model from the sgt's unit). From what you've described, it sounds like it wasn't.

With precision strikes he can allocate to any legal target. To be a legal target, the enemy must be Engaged with the unit the Character is attacking from.

So, by your example, the Nob is engaged with Squad 1. Is the Nob also Engaged with the Squad 2?(that has the sergeant that was attacking). From your example, that would be no.

The Multi assault muddies the waters a bit regarding actual RAW, because the Nob is "engaged", but he is not "engaged" with the attacking unit, so I would say its not legal.