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I confused myself at the latest local tournament. I thought you could not consolidate into a unit unless you had declared a charge against that unit. I cannot remember why I thought this or where whatever rules I found were...Can you? The rule guy at the tournament said you can but you cannot be chosen to fight, while the unit you consolidated into can be chosen to fight. I know there is a thread here that discussed this, my searches are not finding it. BCB...where are you!?

You can consolidate or even pile in to units other than the one that was charged, but a unit that charged may only direct it’s attacks at a unit it charged. You can still choose the charging unit to attack (in fact you must). Any unit that is within 1” during the Fight phase may be chosen to attack, so if you charge unit A, kill it and consolidate into unit B, you cannot attack unit B (with a second attack like Khorne Beserkers etc), but unit B can attack you.

edwardmyst wrote:
I confused myself at the latest local tournament. I thought you could not consolidate into a unit unless you had declared a charge against that unit. I cannot remember why I thought this or where whatever rules I found were...Can you? The rule guy at the tournament said you can but you cannot be chosen to fight, while the unit you consolidated into can be chosen to fight. I know there is a thread here that discussed this, my searches are not finding it. BCB...where are you!?

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As you seem to have figured out, you can indeed consolidate into (or even pile into) any unit, even one you did not declare a charge at. However, if the unit doing the consolidating (or piling in) did declare a charge that turn, they may not make any attacks into units they did not declare a charge at. This is important because the units you'll be doing this trick with usually have some method of attacking a 2nd or even 3rd time in a fight phase. However it's also a neat trick to force a unit to have to fall back and deny them their shooting (unless they are the Un-Fun Eldar, or T'au, or the Too-Fun Eldar, or the Extra-Clown Eldar).

Thanks guys. No clue why that was in my head.

Skarbrand loves this strategy cause of the "roll 3d6 and get under your leadership" or you stay there and take your whuppin like a man