War Wagon usefullness

[Goris]

I believe this to be incorrect, you only fail a charge if you do not end your movement in melee range with your charge target. If you blat something with your impact attack, feel free to continue shooting away.

Impacts are part of your movement and you must end your charge in melee range, so if you kill your charge target during your movement with an impact, you fail the charge because you then end your movement and the model is dead.

[Beckman]

Impacts are part of your movement and you must end your charge in melee range, so if you kill your charge target during your movement with an impact, you fail the charge because you then end your movement and the model is dead.

Mostly correct, if you kill your charge target with an impact attack, you continue your SPD+3 inches, then fail charge. (your movement does not end)

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[PG_Celedor]

That seems like an odd rule. I mean, I get the part about if you don't get to your charge target your activation should end. But if your intent is to charge and kill a model, and you kill them with an attack linked to your movement (say, assault or impact attacks), I don't see why your activation should end. I understand the rule, but not the reason (in this case).

Can you choose to not make an impact attack role against your target? I assume by stopping your charge movement before getting base to base with anything and after getting into melee range of your charge target. But if you do get base to base with something, can you choose to not make impact attacks?

[PG_petegrrrr]

Impact attacks are not mandatory, you may choose to trigger it or not.

[Beckman]

But if you do choose to trigger your impact attacks, you make impact attacks against ALL models currently in your .5" melee range. Including your own. It comes up on Long Riders sometimes.

[Greggle]

Can the war wagon charge a single model, make impact attacks against all the models after it moves into b2b, then make the charge attack, then make the two ranged attacks?

[PG_Goldstep]

Kinda...

If a charging model ends its charge movement without its charge target in its melee range, then it has made a failed charge. If a model makes a failed charge during its activation, its activation immediately ends.

and

If the charge target is the first model contacted by the charging cavalry model, the charging model can still make an impact attack against it.

So in your example, you get to the charge target, you make an impact attack on it and everthing else within .5 of the wagon. And since you made it into contact with the charge target, you still get to shoot. Of course if you kill the target with the impact, you can't attack it... duh.. cause it's dead. But you made it to the target before you stopped, so you are ok.
And you will get to shoot.

Now change it to impact attacks before you reach the charge target... you MIGHT not get into .5 inches with the target and in THAT case, you don't get the charge attack or the guns.