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If a character is locked in combat can it HI into another unit and if yes dioes that count as a fresh charge?

 Primark G wrote:
If a character is locked in combat can it HI into another unit and if yes dioes that count as a fresh charge?

Depends what you mean by locked. If you mean in Base to Base contact, then no because HI has to end up closer to the nearest enemy model and you can't do that because you're already as close as you can be to the enemy.

HI never counts as a charge.

One scenario that could happen is your character is 0.9" away from the enemy at the start of the turn. After all charges a unit that has charged now somehow has a model 0.5" from the character. The Character may now Heroically intervene towards the model 0.5" away, which could theoretically move him further than 1" away from the original enemy. In any case, the Character will never count as charging due to an Intervention

Locked = already engaged

Thanks!

Fun fact. You actually dont need to move closer for a HI

Heroic Intervention

After the enemy has completed all of their charge moves, any of your CHARACTERS that are within 3" of an enemy unit may perform a Heroic Intervention. Any that do so can move up to 3", so long as they end the move closer to the nearest enemy model.

note in the bold it says you CAN move up to, not MUST

just note that some thing work on a HI (Khorne daemons, Blood angels, apparently new necrons trait, Tau Warlord trait (Farsight says infinte re roll hits))

mchammadad wrote:
Fun fact. You actually dont need to move closer for a HI

Heroic Intervention

After the enemy has completed all of their charge moves, any of your CHARACTERS that are within 3" of an enemy unit may perform a Heroic Intervention. Any that do so can move up to 3", so long as they end the move closer to the nearest enemy model.

note in the bold it says you CAN move up to, not MUST

just note that some thing work on a HI (Khorne daemons, Blood angels, apparently new necrons trait, Tau Warlord trait (Farsight says infinte re roll hits))

I don't see your point here. If you Character is >1" away it cannot fight. If you HI but don't move closer you don't get to fight. What advantage are you outlining above? I can't see it. Are you claiming Characters already within 1" can HI? They're already involve in Fighting, so not much Intervening going on... can you explain?

Some abilities trigger on heroic intervention aswell as charging I think is his point so it's worth doing to trigger the ability even if you never move the model. Its just a way to trigger the ability.

Ice_can wrote:
Some abilities trigger on heroic intervention aswell as charging I think is his point so it's worth doing to trigger the ability even if you never move the model. Its just a way to trigger the ability.

Gotcha, thanks.