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"If a Transport is destroyed by a shooting attack, any unit that shot it that turn can, if
allowed, charge the now disembarked passengers."

In a friendly pleasant game today I wasn't allowed to charge disembarked passengers with the same unit that blew up the transport. Am I missing something? Seems fairly clear cut to me.

No, they're playing 4th ed rules.

Just for clarity - the "it" most definitely refers to the transport right?

Yes, it is the transport. You were absolutely right. They're just 3 editions out of date.

So you can pop a transport with a dread and then charge the guys inside with the dread?

Grief wrote:
So you can pop a transport with a dread and then charge the guys inside with the dread?

Yes, that is correct. However, it has to "pop the transport" (or at least have shot at it) during the shooting phase for this to be true. It can't pop the transport during the assault phase and then also charge the guys inside.

Was there another reason they could not have Charged? Weapons fired, Range, etc.

relentless crisis suits so i think they were ok.

Slightly off topic, but worth mentioning: Take, for instance, a group of tac marines with a meltagun and bolters shoot at a battlewagon. Meltagun goes first, blows up the battlewagon, ork boyz get out.

The remaining marines cannot fire bolters at the disembarking passengers, as they have to fire at the same target, and their target (the BW) is now destroyed.

They may charge the ork boyz that turn, unless something else prevents it.

You are correct. The bolters aren't even just not fired; you haven't even made it to the selecting them as a weapon to fire step yet(you repeat the shooting steps for selecting a weapon through removing casualties in sequence, never selecting all the weapons first).

So if the only weapon fired at the transport was an assault weapon, or any weapon by a relentless/slow and purposeful model; you have no charge restrictions on the now disembarked unit based on weapons shot(any other restrictions may still apply)

Charistoph wrote:Was there another reason they could not have Charged? Weapons fired, Range, etc.

peirceg wrote:relentless crisis suits so i think they were ok.

You didn’t deep strike that turn I assume?

The permission to charge passengers won’t override other restrictions preventing you from charging.