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Many people keep telling me that double ones is auto fail for charge even if you are two inches from the unit you want to charge. I looked through the book and can not find any information about this rule. So kinda asking Dakka to put it to rest I am totally convinced you can still charge but hey I could be wrong.

Ask them to point out the exact rule. They won't be able to (because it's not there). The only way to fail a 2" charge is if you are going through Difficult Terrain or some other effect (Grav-wave objective, etc.)

There is no universal rules that the roll of a one (or 'snake eyes' in the case of two dice) is an automatic failure.

Unless you are charging through diffucult terrain, then it would be an auto fail.

 pizzaguardian wrote:
Unless you are charging through diffucult terrain, then it would be an auto fail.

Unless you have Move Through Cover, which negates the -2" of Difficult Terrain.... So many exceptions!

Zimko wrote:

 pizzaguardian wrote:
Unless you are charging through diffucult terrain, then it would be an auto fail.

Unless you have Move Through Cover, which negates the -2" of Difficult Terrain.... So many exceptions!

Where I come from, a double one is an automatic win.

Thanks for your time gentlemen I figured as much but still i have run into two or three people totally convinced you could not charge with double ones.

A couple of my buddies who have been playing 40k forever have said that in an older edition double ones used to be an auto-fail for the charge. Maybe that's where your buddy got it?

Was the charge through difficult terrain? Then yes, it automatically fails.

DT subtracts your charge distance by 2, therefore failing the charge on a double 1.

In open terrain, you still charge 2 inches though.

 Homeskillet wrote:
A couple of my buddies who have been playing 40k forever have said that in an older edition double ones used to be an auto-fail for the charge. Maybe that's where your buddy got it?

Your buddies were incorrect. This has never been a rule.

It's only from 6th edition that charging has been a random distance.

 zombiekila707 wrote:
Thanks for your time gentlemen I figured as much but still i have run into two or three people totally convinced you could not charge with double ones.

Tell them to show you in the rule book where it says that.

 insaniak wrote:

 Homeskillet wrote:
A couple of my buddies who have been playing 40k forever have said that in an older edition double ones used to be an auto-fail for the charge. Maybe that's where your buddy got it?

Your buddies were incorrect. This has never been a rule.

It's only from 6th edition that charging has been a random distance.

Crazy old neckbeards.

 insaniak wrote:

 Homeskillet wrote:
A couple of my buddies who have been playing 40k forever have said that in an older edition double ones used to be an auto-fail for the charge. Maybe that's where your buddy got it?

Your buddies were incorrect. This has never been a rule.

It's only from 6th edition that charging has been a random distance.

Technically older editions had random charge distances in the form of charging through terrain.

Which still didn't have a 'double 1 automatically fails' rule.

I had this discussion too some time ago.
For some reason a lot of people seem to believe that a 1 always fails.

But there are a lot of abilities that don't mention such a thing at all, technically it'd be possible to gain a 1+ FNP.

The only place I could find that talks about dice rolls as automatic pass or fail is on pg. 13 MWB (Medium White Book). It specifies Characteristic and Leadership tests. Nothing else.

Indeed,
Even those two do not support the '1's always fail' theory.