So to summarize: Melee UNITS got more important, but they also got less effective at removing units while gaining a better ability to shut down shooting. making sure you aren't allows a shooty unit to shoot the next turn without having to withdraw and lose their shooting phase. You are within 1".or you aren't.at the end of combat. TECHNICALLY there is no such thing as being "engaged" anymore. One interesting tactic now is to remove the closest models in close combat in an effort not to end within 1" at the end of combat. Melee capable units don't have to be good at their jobs, just hearty enough to protect the line. No it simply appears to be a naked necessity of 8th. Not because of some fanciful wishful thinking by people who want you to play with them and want to sell you on 8th Edition, though there are plenty of shills who refuse to say a single negative thing for fear their player base will dry up. The Result? I have seen pretty convincing evidence that more balanced forces are going to rule the day. This possibility in turn has enhanced the importance of having some melee dedicated units, even in forces that might not traditionally carry them. This is a key thing to remember to do when a combat has ended is to take advantage of both of those things to shut down yet more enemy shooting. Consolidation moves and pile in moves all serve to make this good because you can now lock up units you DIDNT charge with them. The biggest is being able to multicharge into units to stop all their shooting the next turn. Assault has lost some of its effectiveness because taking someone off an objective is a lot harder to do strictly with an assault as well.Īssault got STRONGER in some ways. it is really hard to finish a game in the proscribed amount of time unless both of you brought super elite small armies. Games are much longer in my experience so far.
The second impact that has is game length. So Assault got worse in some ways because there is just so much less chance of killing a unit outright with it. Think about it: There is no more sweeping Advance (one way to kill an entire unit and shorten the game) and when they pull out there is no subsequent assault phase (another way we could eliminate units with yet another sweeping advance roll).
Second, people can just pull out of the combat and THATS the real huge issue. There are so few things that flat "turn off your save". First thing is, it's a lot tougher to outright kill things. It actually has a lot of layers to it in its impact. Assault is strong from a certain point of view.
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