advancing

[march10k]

When you declare that a unit is advancing, do you have to actually go farther from your starting point than your normal move allows?  If your move value is 8", for example, can you declare an advance, and then move 5", or do you have to end your move at least 8.000001" from your starting point?  There aren't many units that would find it useful to declare an advance and then not move a long distance (since you generally give up shooting to do so, and not mane units gain anything but extra movement from it), but they do exist...

[bozo69pd]

You can move up to as far as your movement +d6" allows.

[Medicinal Carrots]

Advancing increases your move for the phase, but doesn't force you to move a certain distance. You can advance and stay still if you want.

[Khornate individual]

What's the point of declaring an advance if your movement is 8" and you only want to move 5"?

[Medicinal Carrots]

Dark Angels Ravenwing that want to get the jink save but don't want to move all the way. Harlequiens that want to do something similar with Prismatic Blur. Anything else that gains something other than distance from advancing but may want to stay on an objective or in range of a particular enemy.

[bozo69pd]

Or if you want to handicap yourself when firing assault weapons!

[Medicinal Carrots]

True, you could potentially want to kill off your unit with overheating plasma to deny your opponent a point in some rare circumstance.

[Zamtro]

Or if you Advance hoping to move 12inches, don't make the roll, and 5 inches will put you in cover.

[Eddie Orlock]

That's more than enough Tactica for one OR thread. We will have no more of this here.

[march10k]

Or if you Advance hoping to move 12inches, don't make the roll, and 5 inches will put you in cover.

I hadn't thought of this.  Seems like Harlies and RW would have good cause to do this routinely, but everyone might benefit every now and then...

[Dam13n]

As just stated by Eddie - No more Tactica discussion.

This thread is hereby Terminated!