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Just had a game where my daemon prince was locked in combat with a unit of guardsmen with Yarrick leading them. A separate chaos lord then assaulted the same unit of guardsmen.The prince and Yarrick were in a challenge, with the prince winning and killing yarrick before he could hit back.

Which of the guardsmen can then attack the chaos lord [who was hitting at initiative 1 because of his power fist] ? We played it that all of the guardsmen could all assault the lord [even if they were in base combat with the prince] as because of the challenge the prince was separate to the combat and therefore the guardsmen were all unengaged. At the end of the assault phase I piled the prince back in. Did we play it right or should the guardsmen who were in base with the prince have stayed engaged with the prince?

Thanks in advance for the response.

Sounds right. The guradsmen would have to pile in toward the lord as the prince is considered to be in it's own combat (challenge). They would still have to be within 2" or in base contact with the lord to do so.

There were no guardsmen in base to base contact with the prince, it was an optical illusion, the prince can only be in base to base with Yarrick until the end of the turn because of the Challenge rules, and the inverse is also true, nothing but Yarrick can achieve base to base contact with him.

So yes, you handled it correctly.

The guardsmen ARE in base contact with the Prince, but per the challenge rules the two participants only COUNT as being in base contact with one another. So yes, the IG which were physically in base contact with the Prince (aside from Yarrick, of course), would still attack the Lord if they were close enough (in base contact with the Lord or within 2" of the member of their unit which was in base contact with the Lord).