Morale tests

[shelldrake]

I have a question on morale tests: Is a figure fails its morale test and is moved the required distance but is still on the table, is another morale test needed to halt this movement, or can the figure act normally in its next turn?

Example: a human fails a morale test by one result, and is moved a short distance. As the figure has yet to reach the table each, can it act normally when next activated?

[The Beer Ogre]

No... once the model's forced movement is finished, it is free to act.

In general, if the model can make the forced movement, while staying more than a short distance from all enemy models, and without leaving the table... it survives to act again!

The problem arises when a model with Short Move, runs away from enemies they are in hand-to-hand combat with it.

If they roll 1 move, the fleeing model will probably end up within a short distance of an enemy model (hence auto-death).

So in order to make things fair, I ruled that in my games, any model that makes a Free Hack against a fleeing model, doesn't count for the purposes of the short distance morale rule... therefore Dwarves have a slight chance of getting away unscathed, but have a hard time avoiding enemies they were not engaged with when they started running...

Of course, you then have the rules for fallen & transfixed models... but that is a story for another day...

Hope that helps.

Andy

[shelldrake]

Thanks Andy,
this is more or less what I figured, or more to the point, was hoping ;D

I was playing a solo game last night and this got me to wondering after my Ranger went down in a horribly messy death and a near by thief saw this and panicked.

I had some really really really bad dice rolls last night... unless you were one of the goblins that is...

[andrea sfiligoi]

That's an official clarification: the model/models you are disengaging from do not count for purposes of the auto death rule in morale failures.