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Hi Guys

Ive been through my Rulebook and still battle to understand how Air to air combat works with say a flying daemon prince vs a flyrant? I always mess this up and feel like im missing something simple. could you help me with a quick rundown of how it all works.

Many thanks.

Swooping MCs can choose to have skyfire for the shooting phase.

Thats it

Exaclty.

Flyers and swooping monsters can't charge one another in the assault phase.

You can vector strike someone as you overfly them if you have the rule, and when you shoot you can choose to have skyfire.

So assuming both are in the air and start close-ish to one another, daemon prince might overfly the tyrant and vector strike it. Assume he doesn't wound it, so no 'grounded' test needed.

Hive tyrant then moves - turning and overflying the daemon prince in turn. His vector strike does cause a wound but doesn't ground it either. Shooting - his vector strike counts as an attack, so he can only fire one weapon. He can grant it skyfire (assuming it can be skyfired) so most likely he puts a spread of devourer shots into the daemon prince, who will most likely respond to being targeted by jinking.

...and so on. There's no charging and no being locked in combat unless one of them gets knocked out of the sky by failing a grounded test.

Last bit there: even then there is no charging and no being locked in combat for these 2 units; the one swooping cannot charge.

The one that has been grounded can get charged by another unit though.

Thanks for your help guys, see I was hoping they could get into an aerial sword fight would be pretty badass haha.

Represent it by 'fly by attacks' against each other using Vector Strikes, quick darts in and out of melee range that take advantage of the mobility granted by flight.