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I was playing in a tournament last weekend and my IG blob containing 3 sergeants was assaulted by Typhus. Typhus has to challenge so I fed him a sergeant which he quickly chewed up. My thought was that I could feed Typhus a sergeant during each additional round of combat however my opponent whipped out the rule book and pointed out page 64 which says only one challenge can be issued per close combat. I couldn't argue the point gracefully (as I am not a rule lawyer) so I gave it to him at which point he killed off everyone giving him 3 KP. My interpretation of that line is that you can't have multiple challenges going on at the same time and that a "close combat" only exists during the player turn and a new "close combat" is initiated in the following player turn. My opponent's interpretation kind of nullified my whole theory about assaulting the blob.

Page 65, halfway down on the left -

"Even though further challenges cannot be issued in a combat
until the existing challenge has been resolved, there is the
possibility that another character in the fight might intercede
in a Glorious Intervention."

And page 67, a little bit past the rule he quoted -

"Once one challenge has been made, no further challenges
can be issued in that combat whilst the previous challenge is
ongoing."

You can challenge again once the first challenge is finished. You can't have two challenges going on but once the first has ended you may start a new challenge in the next assault phase.

I'm gonna go ahead and be on your side here.
I would read it as only one challenge can be issued per clos combat phase.

Further down the same page you find:

Once one challenge has been made, no further challenges can be issued in that combat whilst the previous challenge is ongoing.

This would obviously leave it open to challenges again once that is no longer true.

Excellent - thanx! I'll definitely be better prepared next go around

Red sands: In any given turn Angron may call and fight as many
Challenges as there are enemy Independent duracters and units
in combat with him, up to his current number of attacks. Pull out
the challengers and fight them in a sequence as desired by Angron's
player during the challenge pan of the Fight sub-phase. Angron must
divide his artacks between them and must devote at least one attack to
each Challenge he fights in.

 Darog wrote:
Red sands: In any given turn Angron may call and fight as many
Challenges as there are enemy Independent duracters and units
in combat with him, up to his current number of attacks. Pull out
the challengers and fight them in a sequence as desired by Angron's
player during the challenge pan of the Fight sub-phase. Angron must
divide his artacks between them and must devote at least one attack to
each Challenge he fights in.

Angron is a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

 Purifier wrote:

 Darog wrote:
Red sands: In any given turn Angron may call and fight as many
Challenges as there are enemy Independent duracters and units
in combat with him, up to his current number of attacks. Pull out
the challengers and fight them in a sequence as desired by Angron's
player during the challenge pan of the Fight sub-phase. Angron must
divide his artacks between them and must devote at least one attack to
each Challenge he fights in.

Angron is a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

He would probably afraid of necrons.