Section 1.12.5 of the rules says:



Does it mean that, should the defender destroy all attacking units directly engaged, there is no assault resolution (step 1.12.7)? I.e., no hacked down units, even if there are surviving attacking units outside the 15 cm range?

Yep, no support fire either.

Yep, the rule is intended to stop "token" assaults, whereby one or two units engage an enemy formation to activate massive supporting fire.

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I understand, but in this case why is the attacker exempt from "hack down" casualties? As far as I know, this is the only situation when a losing formation does not suffer extra casualties, no matter how badly they lost the assault.

Shouldn't the rule say "go straight to 1.12.7" instead of 1.12.8?

There's no assault roll-off because the attacker using the risky token assault must be broken. And if there's no roll-off, then there can't be any hackdowns.

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I don't want to be nitpicky (even though I'm just being that ), but losing formations are usually broken after resolution. When you initiate an assault, you risk more than just being broken, you risk being entirely destroyed by hack down hits.

In this situation, the attacker initiating a token assault with say, only 1 stand directly engaged, does so with little risk other than being broken (not a good thing, but preferable to being completely wiped out).

Compare this to, say, a formation engaging a squadron of 4 spread out Sentinels, destroying only 1 but destroying the other 3 in resolution.

I guess auto-breaking was thought to be harsh enough, without adding hackdowns as well.

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Yes, and I just understood why : no resolution means that there's no possibility for the attacker to win the assault, even with lucky dice rolls.

Guess I should have thought this through before posting. Thanks for your patient replies.

No probs. :-)

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Just remember that all those support formations of the attacker who would have been able to support still get a Blast marker when their side loses...