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If I group a chaplain in power armour with a squad of assault terminators. and i win combat can the chaplain perform a sweeping advance or does the terminator armour stop this from happening still. If said chaplain fought solo and won he would get the sweeping advance so not sure why the terminators would stop this. opponent did not see it my way and said termies do not get a sweeping advance... i told him my chaplain does and he simply replied but not in that squad so i left it at that and killed him the following turn. Thanks for any clarification.

Unfortunately that is not better described in the rules, but as with other "manouvers" like Fleet of Foot, Infiltrate, Scout or Hit & Run, all members of the unit have to be able to perform that manouver. Also remember that units move and assault at the speed of the slowest member. If any model of the unit does not have the ability to perform a manouver, the whole unit is unable to do so. If one model fires a rapid fire weapon and is then unable to assault, the whole unit is unable to assault.

So if the unit contains any model in terminator armour, it cannot perform sweeping advances. That is true for a power armoured character in a terminator squad just as it is for a terminator character in a power armoured squad.

The rules aren't explicit on the matter, but I think the following suggest that your opponent was correct:

 

An independent character may not join or leave a unit during the Shooting and Assault phases...

 

An independent character may not join or leave a unit while either he or the unit is locked in combat...

 

When the attacks are resolved [in the Assault phase], independent characters are always treated as a separate single-model unit... Once all attacks have been resolved, these characters are once again treated as normal members of the unit they have joined (from determining assault results onwards).

 

Given that the Chaplain cannot leave the unit, and the unit cannot sweeping advance, the Chaplain cannot sweeping advance either.

If I group a chaplain in power armour with a squad of assault terminators. and i win combat can the chaplain perform a sweeping advance or does the terminator armour stop this from happening still. If said chaplain fought solo and won he would get the sweeping advance so not sure why the terminators would stop this. opponent did not see it my way and said termies do not get a sweeping advance... i told him my chaplain does and he simply replied but not in that squad so i left it at that and killed him the following turn. Thanks for any clarification.

 

Hmmm I can see where the confusion has come from...it's not overly explicit;

 

From Sweeping advances;

- 'Both the unit falling back and the winning unit roll a d6 and add their initiative value...'

- '...some units are not allowed to make sweeping advances' - e.g terminators

 

From Characters;

- 'Once all attacks have been resolved, these characters are treated as normal members of the unit they have joined...'

 

This being the case as sweeping advances are performed by the unit and the chaplain is not considered a different unit he cannot sweeping advance as the rest of the unit cannot sweeping advance.

 

Hope this helps :P

 

~O

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