 Hello, and in this video for firefight second edition, we're going to tell you how you can fight in hand-to-hand combat So I've got my rats here. Yep. Matt has been shooting me a bit. I'm a bit weak So I think it's time that I got stuck in and started fighting with teeth and claw so Matt I'm worried about these enforcers here. I want to charge in with these How does it work when I want to actually fight you in hand-to-hand? Well, you can you need to move into base contact with me Yep Now you can do that with an advance, but it's not a charge and you won't get the benefits of that Really ideally you want to charge into combat now. That's a sprint move into base-to-base contact Okay, that's your second of your your values on your speed stat. I mean your case 15 So I think that's well within range What you do is you go From your leader model, you measure the range to the closest enemy model in unit And as long as it's in a direction in a straight line, so you don't have to run around anything It's a valid charge. You won't be hindered. Yeah, and you can get into combat So you move your guy your guys your leader straight into the closest one and imagine Yep, and then he goes in yep, and then the rest of your unit needs to get back into coherency Just like a normal move. Yeah, but as much as possible in base contact with other mod enemy models Okay, so they can that one go there There and they can they go behind you? Yeah, as long as I stay in coherency from the leader. Okay Big terror you're you're less than 10 models at this point. Yeah, you're oh, yeah, must be this side within three Okay, okay now because you you weren't hindered and you charged Your bonuses are you get to fight first fantastic before I get to roll if any if I've got any survivors I'll then fight back. Yeah, you also get plus one to hit. Okay, so it's quite quite beneficial So exactly the same way as shooting You have a look to see how many dice each of your guys get in assault. Yeah, so these are stalkers So they have got assault weaponry, which is two dice each. Okay, so you've got one two three four five So that's ten dice. Yeah, and he does he had any attacks or anything special to your squad Yeah, so that is a night terror with cives and assault 4d with AP to okay So you probably want to you want to roll for his four dice as a different color. Yeah So to identify that any hits he gets will have Effect the armor. Okay, we're rolling to damage. And so on the profile, I guess because he's a drone They will use the same stats as everyone else. So I'm still rolling Four plus correct. Okay, so he's in effect. He's an upgrade to the squad He'll add attacks. Yeah, but any any Anything that's specific to his attacks such as armor penetrating or only for him doesn't benefit the whole squad Okay, but he adds to the squad for shooting or come out or whatever whatever that drones abilities Okay, right. So I will be so you saying actually I'm plus one. So I'm yeah, actually three plus on my wow It's over for these enforcers. Okay. So here we go And all those ones and twos. Yeah So that's pretty good hits. Okay. And now you're rolling is just with shooting. You're now rolling against my armor, right? So my enforcer opportunities have armor six. So all those white dice are gonna need six or more Yeah, but those green ones you said had AP two. Yeah, it's gonna be down to four. So any four or more, okay? so So I've got four Five and I have five guys each with health points or hit points one. Yeah, so you've wiped the squad out Wow five have gone So I will remove those fives now obviously I don't get to fight back Yeah, now if you'd have advanced into me would have fought simultaneously Okay, so it's only if you get an unhindered charge off that you fight first So what do I so I've won the fight what do I do now? You because you're the fights winner you're not marked as Activated unless that is actually the end of your activation So actually if you had advanced you'd have a short action left at this point But you you you used a long action to sprint in so you don't but you can make a consolidation move Okay, so again, it's from your leader. So your leader can move in Any direction and then the rest will go back into here to coherency with him So how far can I move is it three inches? Yes, okay So if I move their backwards because obviously now I'm a boring And then back into coherency and they can move again behind that they would normally yeah in any way you want So that was obviously pretty powerful. Is there anything you could have done to stop me? Yes, so If as I was unactivated, yeah Not every unit can do this some units will have keywords that allow them to have an assault reaction Okay, so they can respond immediately to the threat coming in and there's there's four things they can do So if they've got the suppressive fire keyword, they can try and pin you on your way in. Yeah, which means you'll be at minus one Controlled fire means they can actually shoot you it's harder to hit you But if they do hit you any casualties that are caused count towards would count towards my assault resolution, okay? I can try and evade which means I can actually run away, which means you'd fail Yeah, then potentially left out in the open. Yeah And then the fourth and final one is a counter charge So if you if you've got an assault unit just very good at obviously attacking itself It may want to obviously immediately fight fight back. Okay, so I tell you what well Let's let's see what would happen if I You'd kind of attacked me first with only your assault reactions Yeah, and we'll also place myself behind this hedge to see how cover makes a difference as well Yes, okay, so if we set up again, and then we'll have a look see what happens. Okay, so this time I'm gonna charge in again Yeah, but unfortunately my rats have stupidly decided to hide behind this hedge So what it affects is that gonna have when I charge in so you'll declare your intention to assault me. Yeah This will hinder you so if if your lead if the the line from your leader to the closest model goes Through difficult terrain or over an obstacle or you have to go round something. Yeah Then it becomes a hindered charge right still get into into combat But you'll still get to go first as well, but you'll lose the plus one to hit. Okay So that's the first thing also because my squad here is Is not yet activated and they're also not pinned They can make an assault reaction because they've got the control fire keyword. Okay, they can do a controlled fire Reaction, okay, so if I announce I'm gonna charge of these and assault you Do you then say now say no I now do immediately do my Assault reaction. So this point say I could evade I might be able to fall back at this point Yeah, and then you might then you might find yourself out in the open. Okay, so at this point I'm gonna fire back now that will activate me. Yeah for future rounds. So it's I'm kind of Borrowing a future activation of mine, so I would activate them But I would do a control fire now because you're running at me and um It's and it's something I'm reacting to and not not set up. Yeah, I'm at minus one So my guys normally hitting on fours. I'm gonna hit out on fives. Yeah, but I can ignore that That hedge for this. Okay, because I guess they are it's like they're charging towards me. Yes So I need ten dice five ten. Okay, and I need fives now Any that any damage I caused you at this point will add to my combat resolution Okay, so if I've got any left and we'd seen who's one. Yeah based on the most damage cause Anything I do here with my shot will actually count. Okay So The ones that failed that was pretty good Yeah, much better than your previous role if you watch one of the other videos And your armor five fives So one two three four five five models. Oh, no Actually at that point I have before you've even got to me. Yeah, I've actually wiped you out Did you move all of those including your leader and then the drone's gone as well because that's not a part of the unit Oh, no, so that was a big difference. Yeah, absolutely big difference now I had to borrow an activation to do it. Yeah, and then it might be back to my turn So I'd have another activation so I couldn't do anything more with them. But yes, that's a some reactions like that can be you know, you've got from a from a Planning point of view you have to look at the other unit. Say how are they can they react to me? Yeah Have I got enough to get past them? Okay. Yeah, it's obviously You know previously I wiped you out this time. You totally want me Yeah, so your your guys are very good at combat once they're in it Yeah, I've got a lot of attacks and forces are very good. There's smaller squads, but they're very good at shooting. Okay so maybe actually will Set up slightly differently and we'll have a look see what happened if we both were rolling for fights and then see what happens as well there Yeah, okay. Okay So in this situation, we've set up another one of the kind of potential situations you may find yourself with assault in this case I've actually advanced into combat rather than charging in and the different areas that will end up fighting at the same time Rather than me going first Wiping out your squad and then you having to go if you've got anything left That's right. So normally you always get to go first if you have a successful if you charge it Yeah, if it is an advance in it's a simultaneous combat. Okay So I guess you could potentially Because of the way the short action along actions works You could shoot the short action to weaken the unit and then advance into combat and potentially then an assault as well Yeah, absolutely. And we'll see a bit later with command orders You know the enforcers can be quite good at that because one of theirs allows them to advance shoot advance So actually they can wade through Okay, well number of units, right? Okay, so so I'm gonna roll for so I still stand up for sort of roll first I guess but then we're gonna resolve the casualties at the same time Yeah, I mean, obviously if we had enough dice, we could do it together. Yes, you go first But you I will get to fight back with all of my guys and then we'll work out the difference Okay, so so I'm gonna roll my 10 dice I've got the green ones again for because you're advanced and you're not on plus one So it's just your normal assault value. So that is five plus. Oh, so four plus Take out there. Oh, so that's two threes. Yeah Yeah, okay, you alter damage. So my armor is sixes Fours for that green one because yeah, you're a P2 so Two Okay, so that would be So for successes, okay Now normally that would kill them for my guys and it will do yeah, they all because we're fighting simultaneously I'll get to fight back with everyone first. Okay As I said, I'm much better at shooting my guys have only got one dice each in combat But okay, they're still alive at this point. So I roll five dice My assault is five plus. So this is like a melee. We're all sort of scrapping I'm trying to bite you in things in your house. They're gonna stab me and punch me Smash around ahead with my with my rifles So those two go out. So I fit you three times your armor was five. I've got no AP or anything like that To Okay, so you caused five I You caused four. Yeah, I'll take four guys away leaving leaving my leader. Who's this guy here? And you take two of yours away So in this instance, you've won the combat Okay, you've done four damage to me and and I've only done two to you. Okay. So this point I as a loser I have to Move directly away from you and directly away is based on the position of the leaders Yeah, so you draw a line from the winning leader My leader is here the one pointing the one that's pointing yeah winning leader through my leader And I fall back advanced move So three in that direction and he's going to move back here now it is possible now I have to end my unit The unit has to move in all its models stay one inch away from enemy units Just like you normally would do in movement if I can't do that Then I might become trapped and in which case instantly destroyed okay, so you can surround someone and destroy them like that You know gets I will become activated even if I wasn't already And you can make it a consolidation move because you're the winning the winning side Okay, so like before I can just move them around. I'll move my leader back there Killing like that Okay, so as you can see there's plenty of different options for how you can kind of react to an assault action What you can do obviously if you charge in and also what you can do if you advance So I hope you enjoyed that video and we're back shortly with another one