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Post by Kierons on Sept 26, 2010 18:32:05 GMT
Hi all,
Just checking.. but am i correct in saying that units no longer have a minimum frontage?
It use to be five models across, but can no longer see that rule in the new 8th edition.
Kieron
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Post by wstevens on Sept 26, 2010 19:06:35 GMT
Its five infantry models across although you could run in a conga line but you wouldn't get ranks. I think beastmen are exempt from this and can still run on 4 across.
Monstrous infantry is 3 across for ranks.
Page 5 forming units may help
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Post by Kierons on Sept 26, 2010 21:05:58 GMT
Yep, I've read page 5, but it doesnt mention minimum amount of models. Just says ' A unit consists of 1 or more models that are arranged in orthogonal base contact with each other...'
In most Army books you have to buy units in numbers of 5+ anyway, so it would make sense for a frontage of 5 for a basic unit.. but there's always a couple of points left in most armies, and a unit of 12 greatswords (3 ranks of 4) does well...
Kieron
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Post by Stephen Mawson on Sept 26, 2010 22:01:12 GMT
The frontage of a unit can be anything. But that's always been the case. If you want to form your Chaos Warriors up 2 models wide and 10 deep that's up to you. But you only get the ranks bonus in close combat if you have ranks that are 5 or more models wide.
I think you are both mixing up ranks and the "rank bonus" you get in close combat. A rank of a unit is simply the term for a row of models in a unit, whether that row is 1 model wide or 20 models wide.
Incidentally Beastmen get rank bonuses like everyone else now, the whole I rank up 4 wide was a bit of an aberration from how the section in the old Beastman army book on herds and how they ranked up was written.
Anyway the whole I'm a skirmish units and a formed unit thing that beastmen had going on has gone now anyway for most of their units as far as I'm aware.
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Post by Kierons on Sept 27, 2010 14:50:16 GMT
Thank you Stephen, 5 wide it is then for the 'rank bonus'.
Kieron
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