Question about Cloud of Flies strategem.

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**Grimtuff**

How do. A while back I posted this in another thread on 40k general-

Grimtuff wrote:

One that currently irritates me ATM, as I can't really explain it in any adequate way to a semi regular opponent of mine to show him he's wrong is the DG Strategem "Could of Flies" where he believes you can target characters behind the unit (so long as there are not any other units closer etc. etc.) as the unit is now "like a character" because it cannot be targeted unless it's the closest visible target. No, it just means that. It does not make the unit a character so therefore same rules apply.

Now, I've had no one correcting me and I just want to make sure that I am right and he is wrong on this, as it's been bugging me for some time as I'm 99% sure I'm correct but (as I say above) cannot explain why.

Here's the rules for Cloud of Flies

Use this strategem during your movement phase. Select a Death Guard Infantry unit. Until the start of your next movement phase, enemy models can only shoot this unit if it is the closest visible target

Thanks in advance.

**Stux**

You are correct.

It doesn't label the unit a CHARACTER, therefore they do not count as one for the purposes of the Character rule.

That's all there is to it!

**BaconCatBug**

Stux wrote:
You are correct.

It doesn't label the unit a CHARACTER, therefore they do not count as one for the purposes of the Character rule.

That's all there is to it!

This is it in a nutshell. Just because something is similar to X doesn't make it X. The same way that a "Intercessor" is not the same as an "Intercessor Sergeant".