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Hey Gus quick question:

I had a hive tyrant and trigon prime on the table neither one has shot (or used a psychic power) that turn. My trigon prime charges my opponents land raider pens it and Causes it to exploed. Here the debate I tryed to charge his tremantiors with my hive tryant he had in side the land raider, the player said I couldn't when I asked why he 1st told me all charges have to be declared before I could reslove any and 2 I couldn't charge the. Because they where not on the table at the start of the phase. Any help you guys could offer would be great.

You declare all charge moves, and make them, during the start of the assault phase and then actually go into the combat step of the assault phase. So the only thing your Hive Tyrant would have been able to charge is the transport since it was the only valid target on the board during the begining of the assault phase.

Yup, page 20 in the main rulebook lays it out squarely. You don't get to the Fight step of the assault phase until all charges have been declared and hopefully all charging units have been moved into base contact with their targets.

Related question: If I had fired on a transport and destroyed it in the shooting phase, would I then be able to assault the now disembarked occupants in the ensuing assault phase?

Cheesedoodler wrote:
Related question: If I had fired on a transport and destroyed it in the shooting phase, would I then be able to assault the now disembarked occupants in the ensuing assault phase?

Page 80 in the BRB answers your question.