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So when you issue an assault order it doubles the movement characteristic for units in the detachment. Hormagaunts are 9" so 18".

When you use adrenal glands (a nid card) 3 units in a detachment can make a free move action. Is that move action also doubled?

I.e. hormagaunts who are assaulting move

A) (9x2) + 9 = 27"

Or

B) (9x2) + (9×2) = 36"


Thoughts?

It is not, because free actions are independent things that just might get activated at the time you do something else (like choose a detachment to activate).

Basically:
1) Choose to activate a thing.
2) Play a card that triggers on activating the thing.
3) Get free actions, that do what they say and nothing else.
4) Carry on with the actual activation, irrespective of the previous things. Now you double your Movement as that is part of the Order, whereas the free actions were not.

I'm reasonably confident, though I don't have the rulebook at hand now.

I am less than confident in either direction. Im realy interested to hear others thoughts and happy just to reach a consensus

SherryPie has it right. You only get the benefits of an order while performing that order. No +1 to hit on Aimed Firing and firing twice (you get the +1 to hit for only 1 shooting attack).

Cool. So they move a total of m x 3.

Still great and im good with that ruling in general.

Yeah I agree that the free action is just that, a free action and is not affected by the Order for that turn. The double movement only applies when doing the move action granted by the order.

"When a Detachment carries out this order, each unit in that Detachment can make one Move action - double each unit's Move characteristic whilst doing so."

Getting to make a 27" charge with 90 Hormagants seems good enough.