Eldar seer council on jetbikes and assaulting

[Foredrifter]

Hey everyone,

I have a quick question, my Seer council shoots with its signing spears at a landraider, destroying it, forcing a squad of marines out the hatches, now.. as the seer council can move 6" anywhere in the assault phase... can I assault if the unit is within assault range!?

Thanks for any replies.

/Rob

[Nabterayl]

A unit can assault the occupants of a transport if it destroyed that transport in the shooting phase, yes, but it has nothing to do with being on an eldar jetbike. Page 67 of the rulebook:

Note: remember that all models in a single unit fire simultaneously, so a squad cannot take out a transport with its lascannon and then mow down the occupants with their bolters. However, if a transport is destroyed (either result) by a ranged attack, the unit that shot it may assault the now disembarked passengers, if it is allowed to assault according to the assault rules.

[DarkLink]

Yes you could assault that unit, but that is the only unit you could assault. The rules that prevent you from assaulting a different unit than the one you shot only prevent you from assaulting them, not from moving. You can move all you want (or at least you can move 6" all you want), but that does not let you assault a different squad than the one you shot, with the exception mentioned above.

[avatar8481]

Remember though, that since you have an eligible assault target, if you can make it work you can multi-assault. You only have to stay in coherency and get each model in the initial squad in base-to-base before you hit another squad.

The best thing to do with the Seer Council is to multi-assault to control your otherwise impressive ability to wipe out your target and get shot up in the following turn (tanks, if you can hit them in multi assault are a great way of allocating attacks to accomplish this). You want to end your assault phase with only 1 or 2 enemies left alive so you're immune to shooting but will get free on the enemies turn and ready for a fresh assault on yours.

[Duke]

Hence the importance of Fortune.... Just in case!

[Inquisitor Malaclypse]

cool, that changes a lot of things.

question to add on this, if i shoot an opposing unit and wipe it out during the shooting phase can my shooters now assault a different opposing unit?

can't seem to get a straight answer from any one locally on the previous question and on this one.