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Confused on how Battle Focus works. Does it allow you to advance and shot pistols and rapid fire weapons? If you advance and fire an assault weapon do you still suffer the -1 to hit since you advanced or does counting as remaining stationary override this?

purpleboxbluebox wrote:
Confused on how Battle Focus works. Does it allow you to advance and shot pistols and rapid fire weapons? If you advance and fire an assault weapon do you still suffer the -1 to hit since you advanced or does counting as remaining stationary override this?

It allow you to advance and shoot Pistols, Rapid Fire and Grenade weapons, as well as Assault weapons, all without penalty. You treat the unit "as if the unit had remained stationary." A unit that remained stationary (as opposed to moving 0", which is not the same. Stationary implies they were never selected to move at all. See also the Grinding Advance et. al. errata for proof of that.), by definition, did not advance.

Simple.

The unit counts as not moving (with the exception of heavy weapons), even when advancing.

-A model which did not move can fire its pistol(s) or all of its other weapons normally.

-A model which did not move can fire its Rapid Fire weapon normally, including doubling shots at half-range.

-A model which did not move can fire its Assault Weapon normally with no penalty.

This essentially means if your Eldar unit is not armed with a heavy weapon, you could/should run all the time unless you're intending to charge.