I think that is quite clear in the manual, but someone in my play grup disagrees.

Question is: May I move to engage in melee without attacking?

For example:

- use 2 actions to move + move to engage

- shoot them, then move to engage

or any other situation where I engage without having a remaining action to attack.

Thank you.

One colleage just posted this on reddit:

Do you agree?

Thank you!

There is nothing in the rule book that says you must attack if you enter melee. Your colleague is going to have a hard time finding a citation in the RRG to support their position.

You can totally do this.

Think about it this way. If you're suppressed you need to move in one turn and then attack the next. The first turn, you have moved and engaged the enemy unit, you just can't attack. Nothing prevents you from doing this voluntarily if you have additional actions.

It's an expensive but legit way to hamper things like Jedi and Flametroopers.

Makes much sense. Thank you very much.

This adds to the game, thank you this is major imo

I have seen Rebel Fleet Troopers engage Imperial Snow Troopers and the go on Standby. So much safer than waiting to get flamed. The Snow Troopers either withdraw and get shot, or they strike in combat and get struck back by whats left in the Fleet Trooper unit.

Wow, that is an incredible idea. Thank you.

3 hours ago, Dwane Diblie said:

I have seen Rebel Fleet Troopers engage Imperial Snow Troopers and the go on Standby. So much safer than waiting to get flamed. The Snow Troopers either withdraw and get shot, or they strike in combat and get struck back by whats left in the Fleet Trooper unit.

And they get an Aim Token too, what a great counter move. ?

Yeah, I did this once with Leia in a game to keep a unit of Storms out of my zone on the last turn.

Totally legit.