Tank Shock Inanity

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**Quixote**

Before I go play this weekend, I need to know if I can legally play the Tank Shock Statagem with:

1. Cyclops Demolition Vehicle
2. A Valkyrie in Hover mode
3. An Avenger Strike Fighter
4. A Sentinel

Thanks!

**BorderCountess**

You use Tank Shock when a VEHICLE unit ends a Charge Move. So long as it fits those two criteria, you're golden.

AIRCRAFT cannot declare a charge, and so cannot make a Charge Move. However, a unit that deploys in HOVER mode loses the AIRCRAFT keyword, and can therefore charge.

**Quixote**

I will need to look and see if a vehicle without a weapon skill can charge.

The Cyclops Demolition Vehicle lacks a WS.

Well crap, I was really hoping to Kamikaze my planes into other targets.

Thanks for the help!

**BorderCountess**

Looking at the Cyclops, it can technically make the Charge Move*, but it then immediately explodes before you can use a stratagem. Plus, with only T4, it's not a great choice for Tank Shock.

*Nothing stops it from charging; it lacks a weapon skill because it lacks a weapon. It lacks a weapon because it will never get a chance to use it.

**LaurentLamar**

BorderCountess wrote:
Looking at the Cyclops, it can technically make the Charge Move*, but it then immediately explodes before you can use a stratagem.

Tank Shock is a "just after" rule.

WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a VEHICLE unit from your army ends a Charge move.

Tank shock would be resolved before the cyclops explodes.

Just After: If a rule is triggered ‘just after’ something has happened, it is resolved before anything else happens. For example, if a rule is triggered ‘just after’ a unit selects targets for its attacks, that rule is resolved before those attacks are resolved. The triggering of such rules can therefore interrupt normal sequences such as the attack sequence or the charge sequence. See Eligible Target (no longer eligible).

**Andykp**

For the hover vehicles tank shocking imagine them landing on troops and splatting them rather than running them over.