Assaulting a dead enemy

If you kill a unit in shooting phase, can you then assault another? The book says that I can ONLY assault the unit I shot at...But if the unit dies by shooting then what?

afaik, you are boned. At least thats how its played around here.

if the unit dies to shooting, then you dont assault. Its that simple, and its in the book. You cant assault a unite that isnt there - like you can declare you want to assault the drop pod that isnt in play, but in reserve and will come on.
Q: is it on the field?
a)Yes. - Shoot it
b)No. - do nothing
a)Q: did you kill the unite?
a)Yes. - tough luck
b)No. - assault!
b)Q? are you kiddin' me?!

you can only assault the unit you shot, so if you think you will whipe them out, dont shoot.

There was a big argument about this on Bolter & Chainsword forums a year or so ago because someone decided that the way the 5e rules were formatted (not even written - formatted) meant that the restriction on only assaulting the unit that you shot didn't apply. He was in a minority of one though.

Short answer, if you shoot at a unit in the shooting phase and kill it you cannot assault anything. Only exception is that if you destroy a transport by shooting you can asault the unit that was embarked in it.

Where can you find said exception?

Don't have rulebook with me I'm afraid but it will probably be in the assault section, or possibly in the transport section.

you can indeed charge a unit that has had its transport destroyed - page 80, right hand column, 3rd paragraph

Massaen wrote:

you can indeed charge a unit that has had its transport destroyed - page 80, right hand column, 3rd paragraph

How had I not noticed this before?! Useful, useful stuff, though I tend to try to blow up transports from a distance. Awesome.

Evil Space Elves wrote:

Massaen wrote:

you can indeed charge a unit that has had its transport destroyed - page 80, right hand column, 3rd paragraph

How had I not noticed this before?! Useful, useful stuff, though I tend to try to blow up transports from a distance. Awesome.

This was also the case in 5th edition by the way. Not to rub salt in the wounds or anything.

Wow, I didn't actually know that... I'm glad I know now, though!

Yes, that rule is brilliant; especially combined with the ability to throw grenades at vehicles. I threw HWG at a rhino, knocked the last hull point off then charged the marines as they fell out.

Every time I throw a bloody grenade it scatters on my own head! Stupid scatter...

@tlronin: "what is love?" well what your scatter feals for you isnt ^^

Exactly. No love from my scatter dice man.

thank you, and yes i knew it was that way in 5th, but for some reason I was under the impression it wasn't that way in 6th