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If I charge a unit with my lone chaos lord and he makes base to base contact with an enemy character in a squad. I have to challenge and the opponent refuses. Since I strike first (before opponents squad piles in) the character is the closest target so does it mean all his attacks still get resolved against the character? This came up last night but I couldn't see anything about moving him or anything just because he turned the challenge down.

Does the closest target wound allocation mean that if you have a character in terminator armour you can just take all close combat attacks on the 2+ save even if you have turned down a challenge? and look out sir on anything that's AP 1 or 2.

The wounds always go to the closest model, in this case it's an IC who still follows the IC rules, only that he cannot attack as he denied the challenge.

Damn, guess it just seemed counter intuitive after playing fantasy where people that deny challenges run away to the back of the unit.

You do not "resolve" attacks against the IC. You are attacking the squad as a whole using the majority Toughness etc.

The opponent gets to allocate wounds to the closest model until it dies or LOS to the next closest model.

Yeah, 40k refusers arn't safe from retribution. They can still get whacked on for being a panzy.

Beware, GKs can use this trick with a Justicar thats armed with a Warding Stave. He can get him into BtB with your tooled out lord, refuse the challange, and take all those AP2 hits on that 2+ invuln. So what he doesn't get to attack. He's there to take hits.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Yeah, 40k refusers arn't safe from retribution. They can still get whacked on for being a panzy.

Beware, GKs can use this trick with a Justicar thats armed with a Warding Stave. He can get him into BtB with your tooled out lord, refuse the challange, and take all those AP2 hits on that 2+ invuln. So what he doesn't get to attack. He's there to take hits.

How about the Justicar hits the dude in challenge, manages to wound and instakills him with the staff?