The reason I'd love to see that being changed is to make bunching up for a group activation be vulnerable for CC and not just blasts of melee attacks. Do you risk it or do you split up? Also it'd promote doing something other than always coup-de-grace after winning combat.
I'd playtest it at least to see if it is weird. A fair number of times it won't be needed because most people I've played against do not bother spacing their fighters exactly 3" apart. However I could definitely imagine a tryhard player doing exactly that.
Thanks; I'm trying to keep these pictures work as examples both for my reworked ruleset and original GW; the consolidation pic is an exclusion though.
Is it really that convoluted? Check if there are enemy fighters within 3" of the injured/OOA'd target. If there are, you can engage them via Consolidation. Otherwise whether consolidation is good or not depends on sizes of fighters' bases which makes it awkward to use.
Convoluted is probably the wrong word to use.
Fighters are not necessarily standing in one spot when they fight; measuring consolidation from enemy essentially means that your fighter lunged, injured opponent and took his spot, then rushed to the closest enemy afterwards. Mechanically speaking it fits in line with 3" of rapid fire spreading or nerve checks, so should be easy to remember. Its a quality of life change and I'd like to at least give it a try. That is, not a hill I'd be willing to die on.
If it’s always directly back, you could have weird interractions; on example picture there is no space behind the Goliath to be pushed back. I’d just leave the direction up to defender - as long as they allow attacker with sufficient movement to engage all is cool.
Yeah, probably best to keep it simple. It does annoy me that engaging a nearby enemy with consolidation will be impossible at times, but probably does not affect the game too much, so it is a non-mandatory suggestion (aka won't be used)
I thought about this one, probably this one should not cause too much rolling. A model probably will vault over barricade once, maybe twice per activation. If a model vaults more than 3 times, chances are you battlefield is too cluttered or you could have selected a better route to go around. I'd leave it at multiple rolls, but if it proves to be to result in too much rollling, gut it to a single roll for all barricades during activation.
Additional actions for reloading and such would only be needed if we increase the chance for ammo check trigger, but since that runs along bringing something that generally confuses players (a natural 6 to hit resulting in a partially bad thing), then we better not have it. Again, a non-mandatory suggestion.
