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So this issue has come up in a mini-tournament my friends and I are running. In the same player turn of melee, a squad of bloodletters charged and killed a combat squad of marines, and a squad of plaguebearers charged another squad and were killed in a sweeping advance. One of these two combats would reward First Blood.

Here's the trick:

Marines were wiped out at Initiative step 1 because the bloodletters were charging through cover.

Plaguebearers were swept at the end of combat, but their combat was over after Initiative step 2.

The rulebook says to skip initiative steps with no models present in the combat. Combat Resolution is not a separate sub-phase, it just happens when the combat is over. Would the plaguebearers be swept immediately after I2, or is Combat Resolution considered to occur at the same time across the board? So in theory a bloodthirster sweeping a unit of marines would happen at the same time as marines sweeping plaguebearers?

You resolve each combat separately, so whichever event happened first awarded first blood.

I believe whoever's turn it is gets to choose which combat to resolve first.

Oh, so the bit in First Blood about awarding it simultaneously based on Initiative Step in melee just refers to one combat, not any combat across the board?

That's correct.

rigeld2 wrote:
That's correct.

Annnnd Boom goes the dynamite....

Sorry CPH

[obnoxious friend who won by one point]

How did the plaguebearers get swept? If they can never run from combat?

 Lord Yayula wrote:
How did the plaguebearers get swept? If they can never run from combat?

Yea,the plaguebearers are fearless yes?

Not fearless but They have Demonic Instability which is similar (basically they take Fearless wounds like last edition)

rigeld2 wrote:
Not fearless but They have Demonic Instability which is similar (basically they take Fearless wounds like last edition)

Ok so they can not be swept is still true and the OP's post must have been off as he said:

 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:
Plaguebearers were swept at the end of combat

And they can not get swept.