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Hey folks,

We were playing last night and I think we had a bit of a rules flashback to 5th Edition. I apologize I'm sure this has been asked before. I did some searching and wasn't able to find a direct answer.

Is the whole idea from 5th Edition of "models can only attack a model they were in B2B with at the start of combat" gone now?

I.E. There is an on-going combat between two units. Player A charges a third unit into the combat. On Player B's initiative, most of his models are in B2B with their original target, as well as the new unit that just charged in. Player B can elect to have his units split their attacks however they would like, as long as they are in B2B with one of the models they are attacking.

In 5th edition you had that old rule that would have dictated that Player B was forced to allocate all his attacks against the original target, not the new unit that joined the combat. From what we could tell, this rule was removed from 6th edition. Just checking to make sure we didn't miss something.

Thanks!

That rule didnt exist in 5th edition, either.

There was a ver, very common misconception that the rules said that, however they didnt.

Though I disagree with nos on 5th edition, there is no such restriction in 6th edition in any case.

Murrdox wrote:
I.E. There is an on-going combat between two units. Player A charges a third unit into the combat. On Player B's initiative, most of his models are in B2B with their original target, as well as the new unit that just charged in. Player B can elect to have his units split their attacks however they would like, as long as they are in B2B with one of the models they are attacking.

This sounds correct.

In 5th edition you had that old rule that would have dictated that Player B was forced to allocate all his attacks against the original target, not the new unit that joined the combat.

This was never the rule.

In 5th, you could only allocate against a unit that you were engaged with at the start of the round of combat. This was commonly misconstrued to mean the start of the close combat phase. The latter would indeed have meant you could not hit a new unit that had assaulted you, but was simply not how the rules actually worked.

hmmm, perhaps I had that wrong. I'll have to find my 5th Ed. book now

Abandon - your intepretation would lead to furious charge, and other charge bonus, being useless.