Melee range and blocking mechanics

[Voldrak]

Hi,

I am trying to clarify how does Melee range and blocking (preventing someone from walking out of melee range) actually works.

Can you basically safely move inside a character's melee range without being blocked? Does the block only occur if you try to walk out of their melee range?

Example:

Taelor walks up to Bishop and attacks him at a 3 inch range.

Bishop activates and is presented with 2 options.

1- Walk away from Taelor causing her to try and block him so he cannot move away.

2- Close in on Taelor to get within 1 inch of her and attack her.

In case number 2, if Bishop walks towards Taelor, can she try to block him so as to keep him still and unable to get to her?

[Ratty]

nope you can dance around them singing "Hey ho the witches dead" and they don't get to block you. A model only gets a blocking action if the enemy tries to leave their melee range. For models with two different melee weapons, they can only block when the enemy leaves their longest melee range. EG Teddys have Bite 1":melee and Claw 2":melee. You can't make a blocking attack when the enemy leaves the Bite's range, only when they leave the Claw's range.

[Voldrak]

thank you for clearing this up

[Young John]

Now this has been resolved, if a model want to charge a enemy model ( beyond another enemy model (A) and in doing so passes in and out of A's melee range, can A make a blocking strike?

If so, what happens? Activation ends? My rulebook's on order and I don't have the pdf to hand.

[Ratty]

You can make a charge against any model your not engaged with, even if you are in combat, however your opponent would get a disengaging strike everytime you left one of his models max melee ranges. If he hit you your movement would be stopped and your action would immediately end.

Edited August 21, 2011 by Ratty

[Young John]

Thank you good sir.

[Headcase2]

I thought disengaging strikes ended the model's action. In this case the action is (2) Charge,so wouldn't the strike be stopped as well?

[Ratty]

Yeah you are totally right. Serves me right for doing it from memory. I'm not on my main computer so searching is a bit of a pain.