Ordering a Paradox

[Crydon Games]

This thread is one of the more annoying attempts to make a problem where there is not one. If you read

"Quote Originally Posted by Turner
Astra Militarum's Voice of Command specifically states:
Voice Of Command
A model with this special rule is known as an officer. An officer can issue one order each turn. Orders are issued and their effects resolved at the start of your Shooting phase. If you have more than one officer, or if you have an officer that has a special rule allowing it to issue more than one order a turn, issue and resolve each order one at a time."

It is very clear that orders are issued and carried out one at a time. It says issued and resolved at the start of the shooting phase...and it says that you issue and resolve each one at a time.

"Astra Miltarum Orders
'Take Aim!' The ordered unit must make a shooting attack.
'Smite at Will!' The ordered unit must make a shooting attack.
'First Rank, Fire! Second Rank, Fire!' The ordered unit must make a shooting attack.
'Forwards, for the Emperor!' The ordered unit must make a shooting attack.
'Move Move Move!' The ordered unit must Run.
'Suppressive Fire!' The ordered unit must make a shooting attack.
'Bring it Down!' The ordered unit must make a shooting attack.
'Fire on My Target!' The ordered unit must make a shooting attack.
'Get Back in The Fight!' The ordered unit immediately regroups if falling back but it does not make a 3" move."

All you have summed up here is the order and its effect...ie "suppressive fire" is the order, "the ordered unit must make a shooting attack" is the effect... and again, reading Voice of Command, it clearly states that orders and their effects are carried out at the beginning of the shooting phase...the shooting phase does not progress beyond orders until all orders and their effects are carried out...then on to normal shoot/run.

There is no more to read into this, and again I say that the original question is irrelevant as there is no advantage to issuing a "shoot" order to a unit which has no enemy in sight.

And for the record, "get back in the fight" only says immediately because, as orders are issued and carried out at the start of the shooting phase, a unit given this order can make a normal shooting attack once the "beginning of the shooting phase" progresses beyond orders to the portion where normal shooting/run happens.