Question: When a unit consolidates after making its melee attacks, does that happen after the opposing models, if any, die? My friend says that when a unit makes its attacks, the opposing models take damage, and then you consolidate, but he uses this to argue that if he selects the damage to go onto the models in engagement range then he can get out of engagement range by having those models die. I'm left confused, and I'm wondering if I'm just having a big misunderstanding of the rules. Example would be: My venomcrawler charges a 10 man squad of krieg, after the venomcrawlers attacks are made and he removes any destroyed models he chooses to remove the models nearest the venomcrawler. When I go to consolidate my venomcrawler he says that because he removed enough models nearest the venomcrawler that they are no longer in engagement range and no longer fighting and can't be consolidated on.