Large Figure Movement: Which spaces do they Enter and Exit?

By jorgau, in Star Wars: Imperial Assault

When a large figure moves in a manner where some of its spaces overlap spaces of its previous position (such as an E-Web Engineer moving length-ways), does it exit all the spaces it was in and then enter all the new spaces it is moving to, or are spaces where it was and still is neither exited nor entered, but are just considered occupied for that movement step?

This mostly affects movement of large figures without Massive or Mobile (so just the E-Web Engineer for now). To demonstrate the issue, consider an E-Web Engineer moving length-ways through a single square of Difficult Terrain, from one side to the other. How much movement will it cost?

If you exit all the spaces and enter all the new spaces, the movement costs 5 points:

  • 2 points when the front of the EWE overlaps the Difficult Terrain.
  • 2 more points when it moves again, as the back overlaps the Difficult Terrain.
  • 1 final point to move to the other side.

If the overlap does not count as being entered nor exited, the movement cost is only 4 points:

  • 2 points when the front of the EWE overlaps the Difficult Terrain.
  • 1 point for the next movement as the Difficult Terrain space is simply occupied (by a different part of the figure).
  • 1 final point to move to the other side.

This will also affect when a large figure rotates while one of its spaces contains Difficult Terrain or a hostile figure. It clearly would pay additiional Movement if it enters new spaces while doing this, but does it pay for the space it continues to occupy if all the new spaces are clear?

I believe it is like Descent. IE, When you are moving it, you pick it up and just tap a corner to each square you are moving through, starting with a corner that is adjacent to onr of the spaces you occupied. Then when you get to your final space, you set it down, with at least one square of your new body in the space that you ended your movement in.

This allows large figures to move extra far.

Now if you are placing the figure into a hazard area, then I believe that IS going to count as moving INTO that hazard, so subtract one movement point.

Edited by Crabbok

That is certainly not the case, Crabbok. The rules for large figure movement have changed dramatically. You now move the whole figure either vertically or horizontally (not diagonally) and it takes a movement point to change the rotation of the figure too.