8th Ed. Unit/Character Charging

[Eladimir]

Can a unit declare a charge and leave a character behind?

Ie to have the saurus block charge ahead but leave the skink priest so he doesn't die in melee combat.

 

[erians]

No. Chars can charge out, but not the other way around. A character can only leave a unit by A: charging or B: in the Remaining moves sub-phase.

 

[Moniker]

After which the unit may move as normal, but not march.

 

[Lord Tsunami]

on page 101 it says that a unit can move in the remaining movement phase after a character has charged out of it. it says nothing about it being unable to march. do you have another source for the "no marching" assumption?

 

[BEEGfrog]

I can't find anything in the marching rules or the character leaving a unit rules to prevent the abandoned unit marching. Was this a limit in a previous edition?

 

[Lord Tsunami]

sounds familiar... may have been in an earlier edition...