Tank shocking to split a unit

[Pylon]

The only downside is if it would take several turns for a unit to get back into coherency.

It's true that it's possible, but your opponent would have to use several tanks for several turns to accomplish that, with gaps small enough that the unit couldn't assault to regain coherency, right? IIRC a unit out of coherency only has to try to move back into coherency during it's movement phase but other than that it's still free to act, though I could be wrong and thinking about a different miniatures game or something.

[Sallieman]

A note to mention, make sure when an opponent is declaring a tank shock he tells you the distance he will be moving before he measures, as per BBB.

[Twinlinked]

A note to mention, make sure when an opponent is declaring a tank shock he tells you the distance he will be moving before he measures, as per BBB.

yeah,

in my experience allot of tankshocks are messy to begin with,

if can have such a lasting effect, then its important to make sure it is done right,

A.

[Crablezworth]

It makes it all the more important to define terrain. Ideally some terrain is impassable to vehicles but not necessarily to infantry so that way there's some forms of cover in which infantry squads are susceptible to tank shock and other in which they're safe. At the end of the day, if you’ve got a huge line of infantry, all one squad walking through open ground you should be very susceptible to tank shock and it should be a real inconvenience.

[An00bis]

im going to go out on a limb here and say that I wouldnt mind if tank shock rules where drastically changed, or removed, from the next edition of 40k...

[crisaron]

that would make me one sad potato! I love tank shocking.

[Orbital]

im going to go out on a limb here and say that I wouldnt mind if tank shock rules where drastically changed, or removed, from the next edition of 40k...

That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the two 40k armies you played get ska-REWED by Tank Shocks, would it?