34 minutes ago, kaffis said:

The 1 movement is specifically designed to be the length of a tray, and the close-in rules use that fact, along with the rules for legally squared-up engagements (where trays have to be lined up in a grid) to implicitly guarantee that you will collide with a perfect edge-to-edge anywhere along that movement, necessitating you squaring up again to perfectly occupy the vacated tray's spot if you choose to close-in in that direction. They've written the close-in rules the way they have to specifically avoid having to very carefully measure and then get disappointed because you weren't precise enough earlier when squaring up. Stop making it more complicated than it is by trying to ask where along the movement the parallel edges collide. a) It doesn't matter because you'll just have to square up and align to the grid anyways, and b) the entire point of the close-in rule is to guarantee that you will at some point without bogging the game down in a five-minute argument over whether you nudged things to get them to collide.

A secondary effect of the close-in move is that, unsurprisingly, units that are dealing significant damage to their enemy can press the advantage by continuing (or moving in) to flank.

That's all great, but then, do you think you rotate your tray after closing in or not? That's the question we're currently stuck on.

4 hours ago, Budgernaut said:

That's all great, but then, do you think you rotate your tray after closing in or not? That's the question we're currently stuck on.

I think we need an FAQ on this. I think that, since it implicitly triggers squaring up, you rotate so your front edge is engaged.

What's not clear to me, is what happens in the edge case (whether triggered by closing in or just charging a depleted unit) of your front edge contacting the side edge of a partial rank -- do you have the option (or, hell, the obligation, depending on that other question about how far you go when ignoring partial ranks when calculating flanking) to turn to face the back edge of the complete rank you're adjacent to?