unit with hq falling back

[harrybo]

Hiya all,

This came up in a game yesterday against my long time Ork nemesis. I had an amazing first round of shooting blowing up a battlewagon and a trukk amoungst other carnage. He had a big mek with KFF in a trukk with about ten burna boyz. He failed his 4+ cover save, ramshackle meant it moved forwardish about 6" and they had to disembark. At this point the thunderfire picked them out and killed all but 2 burnas and the big mek also took a wound. At this point he took a leadership and promptly failed it, and they fell back a lucky 2". My question is can this unit ever rally and get back in the game? The reason he said yes was that the big mek is a independant character so can. I couldn't find anything besides a unit which is below half strength can never rally, and an independant character cannot join or leave a unit falling back. So were they doomed to fall back for the rest of the game, or can an IC rally them? Thanks in advance for your help everyone!

[Grey Mage]

Nope... ICs who are attached to the unit share its fate. Pg. 48 details how they stay in units... and since he has to fall back *since hes in a unit thats falling back* and has to stay in coherency... theres no way to rally the squad.

[Valerian]

Nope... ICs who are attached to the unit share its fate. Pg. 48 details how they stay in units... and since he has to fall back *since hes in a unit thats falling back* and has to stay in coherency... theres no way to rally the squad.

 

Exactly, the only way that they could Regroup is if you were a knucklehead and chose to Assault the unit, in which case they would then automatically Regroup.

 

V