great video Darrel, thanks! I have a couple of questions about something that happened to me the last saturday. I had one half of a tactical squad (I was proxying ultramarines and throwing the dice as Warren suggest XD) that had a heavy weapon in the top of a ruin like the one of your video, but the attackers were an assault terminator squad with 3 lightning claws and 2 hammer/shield. The questions are, my marines had to go first in that case anyway? and since the terminators had furious charge (I was playing against black templars) the lightning claws… Read more »

Good video, cleared up some stuff for me. Though for me it usually involves walkers/monstrous creatures assaulting up ruins… talk about wobbly models!
Just remember cavalry, beasts, and bikes cannot climb ruins if I remember it right… can be helpful in some situations

One of the few things newcomers need to learn carefully, and need to enforce in my group. We have many ruins on our tables.

Good job Darrell, informative as usual, this will help a lot of us in the future I guess, quick query tho, does this rule work with Walkers such as Dreadnoughts? I once assaulted a group of Nid warriors in a ruin from the ground with my dreadnought, another player told me I didn’t need to take the assault test due to the dreadnought being as high as the platform that the Nids were on. Is this true?

Wow, darrell and I both have the same Scout. Spooky.

Da Orks be choppin’ da floor boardz and get dem Oultree Mareen Boyz down to da louwa’ leva’ so dey kan get to da choppin’! An’ da Orks kan stand on each owas shouldaz to get to da uppa’ leva’, eh? Well if ya say no den itz NO. Bu’ I say if ya get to da fightin’ wif dem boiz on louwa’ leva’ I’d say dem boiz on uppa’ leva’ would “drop” to da louwa’ leva’ wif dem Orky boiz

We had some discussions about what happens if the unit that is charged is not completely in area terrain. What happens then? Do you need to roll for difficult terrain or not? Does it depend on how much of the enemy unit’s models are in terrain?

Hey nice video Darrel but what if you cant fit your assaulting unit on the floor directly below either due to no room for them can they still assault from 2 floors down cause that would seem cheezy or do you have to wait for models to die to make room for them ?

i wock your videos every day and i need some help deling with grey knight terminators/ paladins with halberds with my dark eldar army. when i shoot (kabalite mostly) when i asolt (wyches or incubi mosly). the incubi can kill with power wepons but bo invulnerable save but wyches live with dodge but cant kill so what unit in the codex can deel with then. so do you asolt or shoot?

“Distances between models are on different levels are measured between the heads of the models on the lower level to the bases of the models on the upper levels”

So, as long you already have at least 1 model on the same level(or otherwise counting as being in b2b contact) all models directly underneath it will be able to assault regardless of your difficult terrain roll, as they count as being within 2 inches of a model in b2b (unless, of course, your model is under an inch tall)