Topic: Flechette question

[Tarrin the Space Marine]

Ok, this weekend my glorious tau won 2 games against chaos and marines. In the list i was trying out some stuff i wouldn't normally use.

During the marine game i used a devilfish (landed) as hard cover for some stealth. It was towards the end of the game which i had sewn up. i was pushing for max points. He had stunned it previously with shooting, so it couldn't move.

My opponent then moved out to assault the fish with a squad carrying a powerfist. He elected not to shoot his melta gun, and charge the landed fish hoping to total it and sweep into the stealth that were using it as 1" protection.

He charged in, and i used my flechette discharges to attack the incoming squad. He in return informed me that only the sergeant was attacking (as he was the only one who could hurt it), therefore the flechette attack could only be directed at him.

As it was running late, i said "fine".

Was i correct?

Should the flechette attacks be:

a: The whole unit as the sarge can hurt it, but the rest of the squad beat ineffectively on the AV12?

or:

b: Just the sarge as the rest watch the powerfist go to work?

I know you can hold back shooting attacks, but i was unsure if you can hold back CC attacks. I don't think you could.

[Frgsinwntr]

The whole Unit attacks.  I have the small rulebook from Macaragge, but it says on page 38 under "who can fight,"  "all models that are engaged fight with their full number of attacks" 

Therefore... all models are affected by the discharger. 

It doesn't mean they don't attack... Its just that they can't do anything.  In fact if they were going after a dread, they would be "distracting it," or against a vehicle they would be picking the commander up and tossing him on top of the skimmer.   

[Noble]

The guy was wrong. If you want to charge a unit, but only one guy can affect it, that doesn't mean that you can elect to have the rest of the unit as not part of the combat. The whole unit must assault your tank in order for the sergeant to attack it, so they are all really part of it.

Damn I was ninja'd by the last guy. But anyway, his explanation was funnier.

[chardison1980]

yeah the whole squad attacks, and when attacking a vehicle or a tank of some sort you CAN NOT sweep or consilidate after wards, so if he did destroy your tank then they are left in the open to be wasted by your army.

[Tarrin the Space Marine]

i thought so. i guess i didn't argue it as i was all over him like a cheap suit.