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Call me stupid, but a guy i gamed against tried to pull off that maneuver  so I called "foul".
After that I couldn't found a passage in the rulebook that forbids that movement.

Unit A consisting of a bunch of Chaos Marines were spread out (so the space between them wasn't narrower than a base, as in the rule book), and Unit  B, a gang of Berserkers wanted to move through the unit. This was ok, but the majority of Unit B hadn't had (grammar?) enough movement to get to the other side of the unit, therefore they would have been standing between the models of unit A.

Was I right to call that a foul? I've never seen such a move before and it stroke me highly unusual.

Thanks for help!

Greets
Schepp himself

As long as there is room for the bases units have no restrictions with their organization with friendly units.

Thanks, but this supposed to be in the "you make the call" forum. Sorry!

But to the point, that would mean you could position units in a way that they are impossible to assault, isn't that a bit...fishy?


Greets
Schepp himself

Posted By Schepp himself on 08/19/2007 1:03 PM
Thanks, but this supposed to be in the "you make the call" forum. Sorry!

But to the point, that would mean you could position units in a way that they are impossible to assault, isn't that a bit...fishy?


Greets
Schepp himself

That is a possible outcome if assaulted by a single model or if the front line does not have a base width to pass through. A fair opponent will flub the one inch rule when it would invalidate an otherwise legal charge if the second unit is not assaultable..

I imagine crazy thing like:

Unit A and Unit B:

AAAAAAA
AA BB AA
AA BB AA
AAAAAAA

That seems like a crazy formation not very mobile, but still pretty crazy.

Greets
Schepp himself

Yeah, that formation you drew is perfectly legal. I played around with something like that with tau - a group of gun drones that made a circle around a command suit. They all moved as normal, and nothing could charge or shoot at the leader. It wasn't necessarily efficient, but it was legal. Works well with JSJ, since they can just jump over each other to reposition.

sure there used to be the uber evil guard blocks that an opponent of mine used to field



ABCDE
DEABC
BCDEA
EABCD

and so forth
it basically amounted to no matter how many shots you fired at unit A, you could only kill 1 or 2 of them
apparently this doesn't work anymore due to changes in LOS rules and such- but it was highly entertaining to hit that kinda thing with an ordance or flamer template

Does it work...yes...will you make any friends? No.

Pull this one in a Tournament and I can guarantee you may be the first person to ever get a 0 on sportsmanship. Also it's not really that effective because once the unit takes a few casualties you can no longer hold the formation and can be assaulted.