Coherency in multiple groups allowed?

[T10]

From what I can tell, the coherency rules do not force units to form a single contiguous group. I may be mistaken, but this appears to be legal: Each model is within 1" of two other models in the unit.

"But no-one would do that! It's unit suicide!" Well, not necessarily. This setup is less fragile than it might seem. If you lose one model, the unit size drops to 5 and it is coherent if each model is with 1" of one other model. If you lose two models, take one from each group. If you lose three or more models, remove one group and the excess from the remaining group. Also, splitting up into triplet-groups can let you grab multiple objectives, and virtually risk-free in the last turn of the game.

So, is this actually legal or did I miss something?

-T10

[Gorsnik]

9 minutes ago, T10 said:

From what I can tell, the coherency rules do not force units to form a single contiguous group. I may be mistaken, but this appears to be legal: Each model is within 1" of two other models in the unit.

"But no-one would do that! It's unit suicide!" Well, not necessarily. This setup is less fragile than it might seem. If you lose one model, the unit size drops to 5 and it is coherent if each model is with 1" of one other model. If you lose two models, take one from each group. If you lose three or more models, remove one group and the excess from the remaining group. Also, splitting up into triplet-groups can let you grab multiple objectives, and virtually risk-free in the last turn of the game.

So, is this actually legal or did I miss something?

-T10

It explicitly says "single coherent group".

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by Gorsnik

[T10]

Hah! Thanks!

I guess I got coddled into confusion by the new focus-highlighting.

Seriously, it seems like "single" is a lot more important in the context than the "2-5 models" and "more than 5 models" bits, but I can only really blame myself for not reading properly.

-T10