Charging, Overwatch, and Hazardous Weapons

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**Lathe Biosas**

Here's the issue I can't solve.

Unit A is going to charge the enemy Unit B, which is made up of a single model with a hazardous weapon.

Unit B plays the overwatch stratagem, fires and obliterates themselves.

What happens to Unit A? Do they finish the charge? Consolidate? Or just stand around?

Thank you for your assistance.

**JNAProductions**

I think they would count as having failed the charge.

They must get within an inch of the enemy unit-if the unit isn’t on the table, they cannot.

Edit: this is wrong, see next post.

**alextroy**

You make the Charge Move before the Mortal Wounds from Hazardous are applied.

CORE RULES UPDATES VERSION 1.3 (WITH RULES COMMENTARY 1.5) wrote:Page 28 – Hazardous
Change to:
‘Weapons with [HAZARDOUS] in their profile are known as Hazardous weapons. Each time a unit is selected to shoot or fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, for each Hazardous weapon that targets were selected for when resolving those attacks, that unit must take one Hazardous test. To do so, roll one D6: on a 1, that test is failed. For each failed test you must resolve the following sequence (resolve each failed test one at a time):
■ If possible, select one model in that unit that has lost one or more wounds and is equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
■ Otherwise, if possible, select one model in that unit (excluding Character models) equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
■ Otherwise, select one Character model in that unit equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.

If a model was selected, that unit suffers 3 mortal wounds and when allocating those mortal wounds, they must be allocated to the selected model.

If a unit from a player’s army is selected as the target of the Fire Overwatch Stratagem in their opponent’s Charge phase, any mortal wounds inflicted by Hazardous tests are allocated after the charging unit has ended its Charge move.’