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Hi.

I'm a newer player, just started playing WH40K when 6th edition came out, and I'm still somewhat foggy about certain rules.

I play as Necrons and I was fighting a Space Marine army earlier this week. I had a line of Necron Warriors spread out, and one end of the line got assaulted by the marines. It was at the extreme edge of his dice roll to get to my unit, so even with his 3 inch pile-in move, he wasn't able to get within fighting distance of my whole battle line. Out of the 15 models in my unit, only 5 were within 2 inches of the combat.

He went first (Due to Necrons 2 init) and inflicted a bunch of wounds, I saved all but 6. However, only 5 of my guys were within 2 inches of any of his models.Should the extra wound have been discarded? Or does that extra wound get placed on my model that is closest to the combat, even though he's not within normal assault combat?

Thee is no limit to who can be wounded in close combat.

nosferatu1001 wrote:
Thee is no limit to who can be wounded in close combat.

So even if a model is 4 inches away from combat, it can still be wounded? Just to clarify.

Agreed. p25, last para, makes it clear that any model in the unit can be wounded.

Iron Dragon wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:
Thee is no limit to who can be wounded in close combat.

So even if a model is 4 inches away from combat, it can still be wounded? Just to clarify.

Exactly the same as in shooting, when a unit 11" away with a model 36" away at their furthest can all be killed by a bolt pistol wearing unit. Page 16 and page 25 make this clear for both shooting and close combat

Iron Dragon wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:
Thee is no limit to who can be wounded in close combat.

So even if a model is 4 inches away from combat, it can still be wounded? Just to clarify.

If a model is in the unit that is taking the casualties, then it can be wounded even if it is 30 inches away and out of Line of Sight.

Alright, thanks so much for the quick replies. It turns out we did the allocation properly then. Later, he assaulted another of my units and killed so many of them that I couldn't even reach him with my 3 inch pile-in when it was my init step and the assault ended.

 DeathReaper wrote:

Iron Dragon wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:
Thee is no limit to who can be wounded in close combat.

So even if a model is 4 inches away from combat, it can still be wounded? Just to clarify.

If a model is in the unit that is taking the casualties, then it can be wounded even if it is 30 inches away and out of Line of Sight.

Not exactly. If the only models left are those out of LOS, then the wounds are lost. You can't kill what you can't see. Pg 16: Out of Sight

clively wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

Iron Dragon wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:
Thee is no limit to who can be wounded in close combat.

So even if a model is 4 inches away from combat, it can still be wounded? Just to clarify.

If a model is in the unit that is taking the casualties, then it can be wounded even if it is 30 inches away and out of Line of Sight.

Not exactly. If the only models left are those out of LOS, then the wounds are lost. You can't kill what you can't see. Pg 16: Out of Sight

actually no, DR was referring to CC.

The rule you specified is to shooting.
So that makes you incorrect.