Movemant Question?

[Azrael0626]

I have a character in base contact with an opposing fig. My fig is on the top step of a roof and the opposing fig is right in front of him. Can another one of my figs step over my first fig to become adjacent to the opposing figure on the roof? I'm allowed pass through a square of a friendly figure and since I can't stop in the same square as my other figure is it legal to place him in an adjacent square?

[TheEnigma]

The only things I could find from the FAQ:
"All walls are assumed to stop exactly at the edges of squares. So, even if it looks like a wall "sticks out" into a doorway, it isn't, and thus diagonal attacks can pass through without being blocked."

and

"Only the top space of stairs (the one with the thick black line along it's edge) is considered elevated."

However, it says nothing about movement through those squares, so the normal rules for moving apply:

If your guy is on the roof and the enemy fig is on the top of the stairs, then no. You cannot move through the opposing figure to the next step down because that's not a legal move.

If your guy is on the top stair and the enemy is on the roof, I think it's still no, because even though all three squares directly in front of the stairs are accessible from the stairs, you can't move diagonally off of the stairs and onto the roof due to the opposing figure forcing you to stop your movement in the same square as your teammate. Since this is not legal either, you can't make the move at all.

Hopefully Tsannik can back me up on this.....

[Azrael0626]

No offense, but I need am official ruling on this one. This actually came up twice in my last tourney. Once was a regular movement and once was a charge. Technically, the figure moving can't stop in the space adjacent to the opposing figure because a friendly figure already occupies it. I've had another judge tell me awile ago that it was legal for the moving character to step over the friendly figure to become adjacent to the opposing figure. It hasn't come up since this past weekend and I have always been a little curious about it because I haven't seen anything in the rules saying that you could or couldn't. An official ruling would help so that I know for future tournaments.

[HeroComplex]

MOVEMENT

Your character’s current speed value is shown on its combat dial. This is the maximum number of squares you may move your character when you give it a move action.
A character can move on a diagonal.
A character can move through a square occupied by a friendly figure, but cannot move through a square occupied by an opposing figure. Characters must end their move if they enter a square adjacent to an opposing figure.
Characters cannot end their movement in a square occupied byanother figure. If a character moves or is moved in such a way that it will end its movement in the same square as another figure, the character must end its move before entering the occupied square.From the original rulebook, the first section under the movement heading, the place with the rules allowing you to move through friendly figures and forbidding you to move through opposing figures. And the last bullet point/paragraph deals with exactly this situation---if you are going to have to stop illegally then you cannot make that move.