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Hello I have a question. Since your charging models need to stay in unit coherency during the charge, and not just after the charge. As long as you try to fill the requierments can you end up with situvations where you wait with moving certain models resulting in gaining advantages of it?

Say you move the first model and then you start to move the left charging flank to (your) right flank of the charged models unit. Now your right flank does not have the posibilaty to reach the left flank of your oponent ebcause of movement, but you could have done so if your left flank moved to his left flank. However, since you do not know where your models moved and this becomes aparrent during the movement of the models (of coursed planed the whole way (is it then legal?)) you can multicharge.

I am sorry if I explained it badly.

You must get in base contact if possible. If not possible you must engage. If you cannot you must move into coherency.

There is nothing wrong with doing what you describe.

The only model in a charging unit that has a mandatory path and end point is the first model to be moved. The rest of the (non-IC) models may move in any order and in any direction as long as they follow the mandates laid down by Happyjew.

I think you missunderstood the nature of my question:

Does the game asume you have ann allknowing knowledge of how to maxemise move your charges, or is it room to mess it up, and if so, since the game is blind in these sort of things, can you mess it up volenteraly.

In senario 1 (green arrows) The 2. dark eldar charges the closest one, the 1. moves to the left one, the 3. one takes the back one and the 4.

In senario 2 I move the 2. to the closest one, I move 1. to the right korn figure and 3. to the back one. Now number 4. cannot reach the korn figure on the left. Asuming I would have had enough models to "block" number 4. from reaching the only kohrn figure in his reach would I be abel to charge the blue chaos figures? Or would when it becomes apparent that I could theoreticaly have moved them diferently to get more into base to base contact I would have to move them back and start over again. I would like to point out that moving them back would be imposible and cheating as we do not know where they stood.

Th excample I drawed was flaves as the 4. dark eldar model could have reached a model from the khorn unit, but once you start doing this with tyranids or large bodies of models this could be possible. (Se picture 2.)

You can move your figures in any way you like as long as you keep to the charge rules. This can result in your guys being able or forced to go a certain way. In your Scenario 2 with the Dark eldar, that is a legit way to move your guys, assuming you did not roll high enough to let #4 move all the way around the pile to get to the enemy on the left.

You have to declare you are multi charging from the onset, do you not? So that your opponent my overwatch you with both units.

Crazyterran wrote:
You have to declare you are multi charging from the onset, do you not? So that your opponent my overwatch you with both units.

No, you never have to declare a Multi-Assault.

 DeathReaper wrote:

Crazyterran wrote:
You have to declare you are multi charging from the onset, do you not? So that your opponent my overwatch you with both units.

No, you never have to declare a Multi-Assault.

p27, "...all targets being charged by the unit must be declared at the same time.". Am I misunderstaning something, or aren't you required to declare the charge against both opponents, and both then have the option to Overwatch you?

Snapshot wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

Crazyterran wrote:
You have to declare you are multi charging from the onset, do you not? So that your opponent my overwatch you with both units.

No, you never have to declare a Multi-Assault.

p27, "...all targets being charged by the unit must be declared at the same time.". Am I misunderstaning something, or aren't you required to declare the charge against both opponents, and both then have the option to Overwatch you?

Okay, they changed that. I must have missed that bit.

Yeah, major change from 5e. Multi-charge must be explicitly declared and you're not allowed to contact any models from units you haven't declared charge on.

But my question is still: Is this movement legal?

Yeah that movement is fine.