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Fight rules indicate that you can only allocate hits to a unit you charged if you charged this turn. So this means a character that joins in a fight cannot be targeted by any model he gets into contact with if they charged that turn. Doesn't this seem a little odd? You could potentially have a model in a 3rd rank not able to attack the charged unit, but a defending character within 3" of him walks up and can smack him with impunity.

Seems fine to me

 bullyboy wrote:
Fight rules indicate that you can only allocate hits to a unit you charged if you charged this turn. So this means a character that joins in a fight cannot be targeted by any model he gets into contact with if they charged that turn. Doesn't this seem a little odd? You could potentially have a model in a 3rd rank not able to attack the charged unit, but a defending character within 3" of him walks up and can smack him with impunity.

where are you seeing that? All I see is that an enemy model has to be 1" away or 1" away from your own guy who is 1" away from an enemy.

The pile in move works the same way. Once all interventions and pile-ins are done, then measure and pick targets.

 JimOnMars wrote:

 bullyboy wrote:
Fight rules indicate that you can only allocate hits to a unit you charged if you charged this turn. So this means a character that joins in a fight cannot be targeted by any model he gets into contact with if they charged that turn. Doesn't this seem a little odd? You could potentially have a model in a 3rd rank not able to attack the charged unit, but a defending character within 3" of him walks up and can smack him with impunity.

where are you seeing that? All I see is that an enemy model has to be 1" away or 1" away from your own guy who is 1" away from an enemy.

The pile in move works the same way. Once all interventions and pile-ins are done, then measure and pick targets.

Right under "Choose Targets" in Fight Phase.

"Models that charged this turn can only target enemy units that they charged in the previous phase". Unless you charged the character, looks like you can't target him in assault, even if he heroically intervenes and joins the fight. Seems a bit off.

Huh, missed that. Seems like you are right. Needs FAQ.

If the character is within the 12" range, you can declare him as one of your charge targets, along with the unit it is near. You only have to worry about that character getting it's overwatch and can allocate hits to it, if it joins the fight.

It seems this effects the pile in also, which makes it basically pointless. The piled in unit gets to fight but we can't allocate wounds to it. Why bother piling in at all?

ETA: Just chatted with Reece on frontline's FAQ thread. He confirmed it. No fighting for charging units against heroic intervention and new units engaged through pile-in.