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OK, so I have a bunch of boyz in a trukk. I charge the trukk at a shadowsword (or some other nasty thing.) The trukk is destroyed in overwatch and the boyz spill out.

Can these boyz then charge something, either the shadowsword of another unit?

The reason I ask is that there is no way currently to disembark after a vehicle has moved. Except for these lucky boyz...they get to ride the trukk, take their dismbark lumps (while adding 3 inches) then charge!

Could this be a tactic: Move the unit within 3 inches of a trukk, embark, move the transport, get it blown up in overwatch, disembark, then charge?

If so, Ork boyz could have a charge range of 5 + 3 (embark) + 12 + (length of vehicle) + 3 (disembark) + 2d6 with this tactic.

With a Warboss or near the boyz, it would be 5 + d6 (advance) + 3 (embark) + 12 + d6 (vehicle advance) + 7-ish (length of vehicle) + 3 (disembark) + 2d6 charge, for a maximum of...wait for it...54 inches!

Legal?

Just checked the rules.

Short answer, Yes. If the vehicle dies to overwatch you follow the rules for disembarking. Then you move on to selecting the next unit you wish to charge with. Which could be the recently disembarked unit.

The ofc would all take deaths on a 1
And then you have to take overwatch again with that unit charging
Then factor trus are not cheap....

its quite an orky tactic but probably situational and a bit desperate

Very Orky!! You could see them rolling a trukk down the hill towards the enemy and leaping off it into the fray at the end of its journey. Waaaaaagh

And as stated above - yes this can be done

I had a vehicle destroyed by an enemy Ynnari unit in my assault phase as their extra shooting move, the troops inside then disembarked the destroyed vehicle and charged the offending Ynnari unit

Also, it would make zero sense to do so.

Since you disembark freely 3" at the beginning of your Movement phase (before it technically) you'd be depriving your Ork boys of 3" of additional charge range --- making it much more likely that they'd reach.

Could you? I believe so, yes.

Don't trucks move 12"?
Isn't 12" farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?
Isn't 12" Truck Move + 3" Disembark way farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?

 alextroy wrote:
Don't trucks move 12"?
Isn't 12" farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?
Isn't 12" Truck Move + 3" Disembark way farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?

You can't disembark after moving.

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 alextroy wrote:
Don't trucks move 12"?
Isn't 12" farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?
Isn't 12" Truck Move + 3" Disembark way farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?

You can't disembark after moving.

He knows that. He means the Emergency Disembark after the Trukk is destroyed, as per example in OP.

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 alextroy wrote:
Don't trucks move 12"?
Isn't 12" farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?
Isn't 12" Truck Move + 3" Disembark way farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?

You can't disembark after moving.

He knows that. He means the Emergency Disembark after the Trukk is destroyed, as per example in OP.

yeah but doesn't Overwatch occur before units roll for charge and move? So if the Trukk is 9" out and is destroyed in Overwatch wouldn't the Boys now be, at least, 6" away?

Also super Orky

BomBomHotdog wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 alextroy wrote:
Don't trucks move 12"?
Isn't 12" farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?
Isn't 12" Truck Move + 3" Disembark way farther than 3" Disembark + 6" Move?

You can't disembark after moving.

He knows that. He means the Emergency Disembark after the Trukk is destroyed, as per example in OP.

yeah but doesn't Overwatch occur before units roll for charge and move? So if the Trukk is 9" out and is destroyed in Overwatch wouldn't the Boys now be, at least, 6" away?

Also super Orky

You still get the trukk's 12 inch move in the movement phase, plus the 3 inch disembark of the models.

I guess what I'm saying is that if a Trukk is 12" from an enemy unit...there's zero difference in whether you disembark before, or emergency disembark...so why risk charging the Trukk? If it takes Overwatch and blows up you could potentially lose models. There's zero reason to not disembark prior to the Trukk charging (to take Overwatch) and then safely charge your boys in.

Overwatch occurs before a charging unit moves (or attempts to move). You're not getting your boys into the fight any faster or safer...at all?

 Elbows wrote:
I guess what I'm saying is that if a Trukk is 12" from an enemy unit...there's zero difference in whether you disembark before, or emergency disembark...so why risk charging the Trukk? If it takes Overwatch and blows up you could potentially lose models. There's zero reason to not disembark prior to the Trukk charging (to take Overwatch) and then safely charge your boys in.

Overwatch occurs before a charging unit moves (or attempts to move). You're not getting your boys into the fight any faster or safer...at all?

Yeah, but the situation in question is already after the movement phase. And at the start of that movement phase, both the boys and the trukk were more than 12" away.

So say the truck is 18" away from the charge target at the start of the movement phase. The boys embark, the trukk moves 12" (or whatever), putting it 6" away. The trukk charges the target, dies in overwatch. Boys disembark, 3" closer to target, 2" charge needed for boys that started 18" or more away that turn.

If you're specifically trying to do this, it's not incredibly likely to succeed, but emergency disembarked units can charge in this situation, so it's a possibility. Opponent would probably just not fire overwatch in subsequent tries after it succeeds the first time though.

 Elbows wrote:
I guess what I'm saying is that if a Trukk is 12" from an enemy unit...there's zero difference in whether you disembark before, or emergency disembark...so why risk charging the Trukk? If it takes Overwatch and blows up you could potentially lose models. There's zero reason to not disembark prior to the Trukk charging (to take Overwatch) and then safely charge your boys in.

Overwatch occurs before a charging unit moves (or attempts to move). You're not getting your boys into the fight any faster or safer...at all?

The 12" quoted is the Trukk's regular move, not a Charge move. That isn't considered in the numbers posted by that chap. No Trukk Charge range is counted because, as you say, if it dies it doesn't move. But the unit inside still deploys 3" forward then could charge. Make sense?