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So I play BA and jump packs are a huge deal for me, and they just look so cool.

Anyways.

Can I assult using my jump packs "jumping" over a building/vehicles/any object?

This is provided I didnt use my packs to move in the movement phase and I have made the charge range.

My friends said I couldn't. I can't find a rule stating I can or can't. I hope this is a clear enough question.

Thanks. -E.

Read pg 47 BGB Skyborne.

If you make the range you can ignore anything between the model and the unit it is charging. So long as you don't land in difficult terrain there is also no initiative penalty.
(There may or may not be an initiative penalty if you land in difficult terrain using a jump pack).

I thought you had to have LOS in the first place in order to charge.


Wait...maybe that was 5th ed.

No - you need LOS in 6th, you didn't in 5th.

So, to sum up, if you can draw LoS somehow, there's nothing preventing you from using your jump pack to assault over intervening models or terrain, but if there's solid intervening terrain you may not be able to draw LoS, and no LoS prevents the charge from being declared.

Thats clear. what about hit and run with jump packs. Can I use hit and run to jump over terrain, models, etc to get away after i've mopped up in an assualt?

I suppose that depends. You can only use your Jump pack once i thought (either for the 12" movement OR re-roll charges and Hammer of Wrath).

Can you then use it for falling back moves too?

A Hit & Run is a Hit & Run.

Without special rules dealing specifically with a Hit & Run a unit's type has no bearing on how they perform a Hit & Run.

Honestly Jump Infantry are better for it because you ignore difficult terrain when performing a Hit & Run, meaning even if they end up in it they don't take a dangerous terrain test, and while moving through dangerous terrain will potentially injure them, how much dangerous terrain do you really have on your boards?