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If a unit charges another unit that has no LOS (around a corner), can the target unit fire overwatch event if it doesn't have LOS?

No. If you charge around LOS blocking terrain, the charged unit does not get to fire overwatch.

Thanks!!!

Situational, but a good unexpected trick to pull is to block LOS of a unit you intend to charge with a transport (i.e Rhino)

if they can't draw LOS then no overwatch, the unit can then attempt to charge unscathed. - of course having to go around the tank can add distance to the roll needed so like I said, situational, but very surprising if you can pull it off.

 NurglesR0T wrote:
Situational, but a good unexpected trick to pull is to block LOS of a unit you intend to charge with a transport (i.e Rhino)

if they can't draw LOS then no overwatch, the unit can then attempt to charge unscathed. - of course having to go around the tank can add distance to the roll needed so like I said, situational, but very surprising if you can pull it off.

That actually sounds like a tactic I'd be interested in trying with my WE.

You don't need to worry about the extra distance if your model has fly, however.

 NurglesR0T wrote:
Situational, but a good unexpected trick to pull is to block LOS of a unit you intend to charge with a transport (i.e Rhino)

if they can't draw LOS then no overwatch, the unit can then attempt to charge unscathed. - of course having to go around the tank can add distance to the roll needed so like I said, situational, but very surprising if you can pull it off.

Much more frequently I will just pop an IC behind a ruin wall (since infantry can just move through Ruins) and charge with them first. A single IC is usually trivial to hide from the perspective of a single target enemy unit, and the distance added is less than with a transport. It does definitely work as you describe though (trouble is, most of my armies don't feature transports that block LOS, as DE vehicles are up on pegs and ork trukks are very porous.)

 NurglesR0T wrote:
Situational, but a good unexpected trick to pull is to block LOS of a unit you intend to charge with a transport (i.e Rhino)

if they can't draw LOS then no overwatch, the unit can then attempt to charge unscathed. - of course having to go around the tank can add distance to the roll needed so like I said, situational, but very surprising if you can pull it off.

It almost always better to just eat the overwatch with the rhino. Normally when you disembark, then you get 3" of disembarkation move, 6" of movement and then 2D6 of charge (the specifics vary). This allows you to end the rhinos movement in the preceding movement phase at a healthy distance of the unit you want to charge. And this pre-disembarkation distance is crucial. Park too close and you risk getting the entire disembarkation zone of the rhino swamped. But if you park too distantly, then the defending unit might simply be able to kite out of charge range.

A disembarkation blocking counter-move is a very real danger, and can reach out quite far, if you manage to use both pile-in and consolidation moves to wrap around the rhino. You need about twenty models on 25 mm bases to fully block the disembarkation zone, and when the rhino pops all passengers are slain.

A counter-counter strategy is to use two rhinos, and park them nose-to-nose at around 12.1" away from the enemy lines. Then it will be extremely difficult for the other player to block the disembarkation zone in the wedge between the two rhinos.