Movement Phase E41K

The movement phase has 1 sub phase per side in the battle. This normally means 2 sub phases, but in some cases there could be three or more sub phases. The player that won initiative for movement decides who is the first moving player and who is the second moving player.

Each sub phase has the following parts:

Non-moving player fires prep fire, from any detachment that has artillery units that was placed on "Special" orders during the orders placement phase. He does not have to fire all detachments, that were placed on orders at this time, but if a detachment fires, all artillery units in that detachment, and only artillery units may fire at this time. Heavy Weapons, A/T and Death Ray units may later fire Op Fire

After prep fire is complete, the moving player begins moving detachments or doing flyer missions that were declared during the orders phase (see flyer rules).

Moving a Detachment:

Moving player selects a detachment, makes a leadership check if it has any blast markers on it, then moves it according to it current orders. Moving units may be subject to Op Fire and Snap Fire from enemy detachments. These are covered below.

• No Orders: All units may move up listed distance.
• Special: No Movement for Artillery or flak units, up to 5 cm for all other units. War Engines acting as flak units may not move
• Over watch: up to 5cm all units, except War Engines, who move as normal
• Assault: All units may move up to their listed speed. In the movement phase they may move as desired. They do not have to move towards an enemy detachment in this phase.
• March: All units move at up to triple their listed speed.

Turns:

Non War engine units may make as many turns while moving as they wish. War engine units on may make 1 turn for "free" of up to 45 degrees at any point in their movement, and may make more turns at a cost of 5cm per turn, with a maximum of 45 degrees per turn. War Engines on move orders may only take their 'free' turn, they may not take additional moves by paying 5 cm. War Engines following a road may follow the road at no cost in movement, however turning at a cross road does count as a turn.

Terrain effects on movement:

Terrain effects differing classes of units in differing ways. There are reflected in the table following

Movement Class Notes:

• Jump Pack infantry may act as Infantry or Skimmers, as desired by the moving player
• Flight Pack infantry may act as Infantry or Flyer, as desired.

Dangerous Terrain Check:

Roll 1D6. On a roll of 1 the unit is halted for the phase. Roll again. On a roll of 1 on the second die, the unit takes a hit. War Engines can not take critical hits from Dangerous Terrain Checks. Units with Save Ability do not get a save for Dangerous Terrain Checks. The hit is not effected by any type of protection field.

Op Fire:

During movement, if a detachment moves with in normal range of an enemy detachment that is on special orders, the enemy detachment may fire some of it's units at the moving detachment. This is called Op Fire, and only Heavy weapons special ability troops or units that are armed with either Anti/Tank weapons or Death Ray super heavy weapons may fire. The Heavy weapons units fire as per normal [i.e. total fire power of units with in range and with Line of Sight of one or more units of the moving detachment (at any time during the move), find number of dice to roll on the fire power chart, roll to hit, assign hits]. Anti Tank units fire by stating if you are firing at infantry or vehicles, then rolling to hit (4+ or better) assigning hits from front to back of the target detachment, with front being defined as "towards the firing detachment". Death Ray units target a single unit and roll to hit (2+). Blast markers are placed on the target detachment as normal. The target detachment does not have to halt movement because of Op Fire. The firing detachment is NOT, at this time, on over watch orders and does NOT get to re roll misses. At least one unit in the moving detachment must, in fact, move to trigger Op Fire. Non-moving units may be fired on once the detachment triggers Op Fire. A Detachment may be the target of more than one detachment firing Op Fire, but a given detachment may only fire "Op Fire" once per turn, and only at one detachment. It may not "split fire" while firing Op Fire. It does not have to fire "Op Fire" at the first detachment that moves with in range, but may wait to fire at another detachment. The decision to fire Op Fire must be made before the moving player moves on to his next detachment. Once the next detachment begins to move, or a flyer mission begins, you may not op fire at a previously moved detachment.

Snap Fire:

Any time any unit moves with in 10cm of any hostile unit it may be snapped fired at.

To Snap fire: Roll 1 dice. If greater than the armor value of the target, the target takes one hit. A given unit may be snapped fired at more than once, and a given unit can snap fire more than once, but a given unit can snap fire at another unit only once per turn. Snap fire at non War Engine, Non Flyer units halts the moving unit at the point of fire. War Engines units are only halted by other War Engines or by fire from units with Death Ray SHW snap firing at them (Note that the special rules for firing A/T and Death Ray units are not used in Snap fire, regardless of target type) Flyers (to include Flight Pack infantry and "Slow Flyers", but not Jump Pack infantry or skimmers) are not halted by snap fire. Only Flak or MANPADS units may snap fire at "Fast flyers". All other flyer types (Flight Pack Infantry, "Slow Flyers") may be snapped fired at by any unit type.

Transport Rules:

Units with the "Transport" special ability may carry units inside them. The number of units that can be carried depends on both the transport rating of the caring unit and what types of units it is attempting to transport.

The following units cost 4 transport slots, and, as such are not normally transported:

• Greater Demons
• The Eldar Avatar
• Hive Tyrants
• Carnifexes

Vehicles and War Engines can be transported at a cost of 4 transport slots per damage starting point

Any unit with Transport or Tunneller special power is rated to the number of Basic infantry stands it can carry.

Several types of infantry stands are bigger than your run of the mill grunt but are still mounted 5 per stand, which means that fewer units can be carried per transport vehicle. The following infantry types use 2 (two) transport slots.

• Space Marines Terminator Armor
• Chaos Terminators
• Ork Mega Armor
• Ogryns

Several types of infantry are smaller than your run of the mill grunt but are mounted 5 per stand The following infantry types use 1/2 of a transport slot (i.e. a transport with a rating of 2 can carry 4 of these units)

• Imperial Ratlings
• Gretchen
• Super Grots
• Snotlings
• Termagants

Any non-flyer vehicle with Transport (not Tunneller) may tow 1 "Towed Artillery" piece. The artillery piece does not use one of the transport slots, so a Rhino towing a "Support Weapon" my carry 2 units of Space Marines. Flyers and Tunnellers carry all units internally so each artillery piece uses 1 transport slot.

Towed Artillery:

• Imperial Support Weapons
• Eldar Support Platform
• Ork "Big Gunz"

Note: Pulsa Rocket, Squigg Katapults and Traktor Kannon are Self Propelled and as such may not be towed or carried as a transport load.
Shokk Attack Gunz count as infantry, and must be carried either by the "Tank Rider" rules or the normal transport rules, depending on the type of transport.
Ork Big Gunz may be towed by Buggies (to include War Tracks).

Units that are classed as infantry but are not mounted 5 per stand each use 1 transport slot per stand. (i.e. 2 Lictors fit in an Assault Spawn.)

The following non-infantry types may be transported using 2 slots per unit transported

• Dreadnoughts (all races)
• Bikes (Imperial and Chaos) (Per Stand)
• Attack Bikes (Imperial)

Transported units may not fire or engage in close combat (see however, open topped vehicles). Transported units take a hit if their transporting unit takes a hit. The transported unit is allowed a save of 4+ to avoid this hit, regardless of type, and a unit that has the save ability is allowed to take that save as well to avoid the hit (i.e. a Space Marine Captain is allowed 2 saves at 4+ to avoid the hit, and must fail both of them to be killed). If the transported units are not within 1 cm of the transporting unit, the transporting unit loses a similar % of it's movement as the transported unit must move to mount the transport. Likewise a transported unit looses a % of it's movement based on the movement of the transporting unit. (i.e. if a Space Marine unit moves 3 cm to board a Rhino, the Rhino looses 30% of it's movement that phase. If it moved 15 cm (50% of it's movement) the marines could move 2 cm (20%) after getting off the Rhino if they disembarked that phase). If there are units that move differing amounts to embark, the movement penalty is equal to the one that move the farthest. Optionally you may simply charge 5 cm for embarking and 5 cm for disembarking for all units involved. If this is used, the transporting unit is charged 5 cm regardless of the number of units embarking or debarking. You may not have units embarking and debarking at the same time, from the same transport unit.

Tank Riders.

Some armies (Ork, Imperial Guard) tend to not have as many transport units as they have infantry. In these armies they use tank riding instead. Any vehicle or War Engine may carry up to it's number of original Damage points in infantry stands unless it has one of the following abilities, Close Support, Skimmer, Open Top or Walker. (Short version. No tank riding on things with flame throwers, with legs or flying things). The transporting detachment may not be on March orders. The infantry being transported this way must start the phase within 1 cm of the transporting tank. It may move up to 2 cm from the tank after the tank has moved that phase. If not part of the same detachment as the transporting units, the infantry must be placed on either "No Orders" or "Assault". Only units that have a transport slot rating of 1 or less may be tank riders. Tank riders take a hit with out a chance at a save if their transporting vehicle is hit. Tank riders that have the save ability are allowed a save to avoid this hit.