Tight Space Squaring up?

By Foxcola00, in Runewars Rules Questions

Was playing with a friend yesterday and we had weird squaring up an issue. He was coming out from a forest terrain charging so he was avoiding touching the swamp and his own unit in back, and found a space in very corner his unit would still touch the forest and nothing else and thus it would lead to him charging into my hero unit at a very close call (connector tray bits) and we were at complete lost how to square the units up. Would just sit put with the connection or would square up to the hero's tray?

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The Rune Golems are the unit that was charging? They collided with Ardus? Assuming that the Rune Golems fit squared up with their front edge on Ardus's side, that seems like how they should end up.

If they can't fit in that way they don't square up and just stay touching where ever they ended up colliding.


You either square up completely or you stay in the position where the collision occurred. You never partially square up.

can't charge out of terrain:

81.4 (last line) "When a unit exits a piece of terrain, that unit cannot be overlapping or touching any other obstacle."

as a reminder:

59.1 "Obstacles include: • Other units, both enemy and allied"

9 hours ago, WWHSD said:

The Rune Golems are the unit that was charging? They collided with Ardus? Assuming that the Rune Golems fit squared up with their front edge on Ardus's side, that seems like how they should end up.

If they can't fit in that way they don't square up and just stay touching where ever they ended up colliding.


You either square up completely or you stay in the position where the collision occurred. You never partially square up.

Front edge meaning the forward facing of the unit?

11 minutes ago, skotothalamos said:

can't charge out of terrain:

81.4 (last line) "When a unit exits a piece of terrain, that unit cannot be overlapping or touching any other obstacle."

as a reminder:

59.1 "Obstacles include: • Other units, both enemy and allied"

I had read the OP as the unit leaving the terrain into a tight spot then the following round charged but if it was happening all in one action than it definitely wouldn't happen that way.

A march out of terrain will leave you with your back edge touching the terrain regardless of the march. A shift will leave you with one of your side edges touching the terrain regardless of the speed of the shift.

3 minutes ago, WWHSD said:

I had read the OP as the unit leaving the terrain into a tight spot then the following round charged but if it was happening all in one action than it definitely wouldn't happen that way.

A march out of terrain will leave you with your back edge touching the terrain regardless of the march. A shift will leave you with one of your side edges touching the terrain regardless of the speed of the shift.

Something like that, I forget how it happened, more worried about squaring up bit would work in this instance.