Some clarification appreciated, not sure I'm understanding all the melee rules: Say Luke moves into melee with 1 of the 2 speeder bikes, but not the other. The second speeder bike does not have a melee weapon, so is not required to 'pile in'. Luke does 4 wounds after all defense rolls. Can those wounds only affect the Speeder bike in contact with Luke, and the extra damage is wasted, or does the extra 1 damage get applied to the second bike, even though it's out of contact?

35 minutes ago, Grim6 said:

Come clarification appreciated, not sure I'm understanding all the melee rules: Say Luke moves into melee with 1 of the 2 speeder bikes, but not the other. The second speeder bike does not have a melee weapon, so is not required to 'pile in'. Luke does 4 wounds after all defense rolls. Can those wounds only affect the Speeder bike in contact with Luke, and the extra damage is wasted, or does the extra 1 damage get applied to the second bike, even though it's out of contact?

It effects them both.

The email response we got on the issue basically and essentially says that melee is unit, not model, based...

so so even if he only did enough to kill the one he was in base contact with, he’d end up in contact with the other at the end of it.

2 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

It effects them both.

The email response we got on the issue basically and essentially says that melee is unit, not model, based...

so so even if he only did enough to kill the one he was in base contact with, he’d end up in contact with the other at the end of it.

Thanks, good to know - so even if, for whatever reason, any mini is not 'engaged', it's still considered in the melee, and all minis in a unit are eligible to be wounded - correct?

1 hour ago, Grim6 said:

Thanks, good to know - so even if, for whatever reason, any mini is not 'engaged', it's still considered in the melee, and all minis in a unit are eligible to be wounded - correct?

Yes. What would happen here is kind of weird.

Say the close bike is the leader of the unit. The far bike gets assigned the wounds first and dies, then the leader ends up with 1 wound and luke is still where he is.

Say the far bike is the leader of the unit. The closest bike gets destroyed, the one extra wound gets assigned to the far bike and then luke is moved over to be engaged with the far bike

This post has the email clarification, I don't think its made it into the official one yet -

I was wondering about this too a bit ago, the email answers it but we had a bit of a discussion here too.

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/274587-second-attacks-son-of-skywalker/