Banzai vs. Defensive Fire

[elindo]

Yea! Official answers without the arguing!

A soldier banzaii charges my infantry, I roll a sucessful defensive fire that immediately disrupts the unit in his starting hex. Can the banzaiied unit still attack?

[Y2UAsk]

No -- if by "still attack," you mean "still make a banzai charge." Like any unit (except the Panther) hit by defensive fire, that unit is disrupted and stopped in its tracks, one hex away from its target. If you were foolish enough to wait until the banzai-ing unit got into your own hex before using defensive fire, then it could still attack with its close assault dice, with -1 on each die for being disrupted and +1 on each die for using banzai charge.
That was my earlier answer, but it has been thrown into question by another thread. I honestly don't know whether the disrupted-by-defensive-fire unit can complete its banzai charge. It seems at first glance that it shouldn't, but there's a plausible case for why it should. We'll have to throw this one over to R&D/OP and see what those cats have to say.

Steve

[Mons]

Yea! Official answers without the arguing!

A soldier banzaii charges my infantry, I roll a sucessful defensive fire that immediately disrupts the unit in his starting hex. Can the banzaiied unit still attack?

No.

Banzai Charge — In your assault phase, friendly Soldiers adjacent to this unit can move into an enemy unit's hex and then attack that unit. They get +1 on each attack die for that attack.

Banzai Charge allows units to both move and attack, it doesn't give the unit special resistance to disruption. If the unit cannot make it into the enemy unit's hex, it doesn't get to make the Banzai Charge attack.