Removing Casualties From Units

Stepping Forward & Closing In

Rulebook

Although models are removed from the back of their unit, very often the casualties will have fallen elsewhere, usually in the front or fighting rank. Removing models from the back of a unit represents warriors behind the front rank 'stepping forward' to fill gaps in the front rank. However, a model cannot make any form of attack (shooting or combat) during a phase in which it stepped forward. It is too busy clambering over the fallen bodies of its comrades.

In combat, casualties are removed from the back rank of their unit as normal, even though it is models within the fighting rank(s) that are being slain. Slain models are considered to have been removed from the end(s) of the fighting rank. This represents members of the rear ranks 'stepping forward' to fill gaps, whilst models remaining in the fighting rank 'close in' upon the enemy. Note that a model cannot attack during a phase in which it stepped forward into the fighting rank. However, any models that remain in the fighting rank after casualties have been removed are more likely to be in base contact with the enemy, having closed in upon them.

Stepping Forward

Throughout the course of a game, models will suffer 'wounds' from enemy attacks (in combat, from shooting, from magic spells and so on). Some of these wounds will be saved by a model’s armour, but others will not. For each unsaved wound a model suffers, it loses one Wound from its profile. When a model is reduced to zero Wounds, it becomes a casualty and is removed from play.

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