OK, we know that Idirans can do nice things with Intercept, including running to engage the rest of the unit that triggered the Intercept, causing the enemy to take freestrikes to regain formation.
Now someone has done a nice counter to that technique.
Situation: Enemy unit actives and receives charge order. First trooper charges my Idrians and triggers Intercept. My Idrians run up to the enemy and engage them all, keeping unit formation with my Idrian that cannot Intercept because he is engaged. The enemy trooper that charged me is not in formation with the rest of his unit and my opponent somehow has to maintain formation.
So far so good, this is the normal Intercept shenanigans.
Now my opponent does the following. He activates the other troopers one by one and does not move them, instead "charging" the Idrian in front of him. The last two troopers then try to recreate formation by running. They die to freestrikes. No more troopers to move so he commences with attacking. The out of formation trooper has to make a command check, the other beat the crap out of my Idrians. So basically his "trick" is to try to regain formation at the END of his troopers' activations.
So, this a legal counter to the "Idrians make you take freestrikes" trick.
Use it.
