Invocation of Nehek Question

Hey all, could I get a vampire counts/Undead player to help me out?

Last night my buddies were fighting. The situation involved dire wolves charging some longbeards. 2 Dire wolves make the charge but due to terrain constraints we put them in base contact with the bottom corner of the longbeard block.

End movement phase.

During the magic phase he gets off the Invocation of Nehek and brings 2 dire wolves back to life. I believe the spell dictates you must fill your first rank up to 5 models.  So his unit of 2x1 dire wolves becomes a unit of 4x1 dire wolves. Now we have 2 dire wolves hanging behind the longbeard block.

So my question is how does this get resolved? Do the new dire wolves get to participate in combat even though there were not there when the charged occured? My guess was that they probably do. And if that's the case, since the dire wolves were constrained by terrain, it falls upon the dwarf player to shift his longbeard block down 2 ranks to bring the new dire wolves into combat. Obviously the dwarf player protested to this.

It was a weird situation so I thought I'd ask.

Regards,
Pensivepanther

Longbeards don't move until the end of the combat (and only if they so choose).  You maximise as part of the Charge, not the magic phase.  The 2 dire wolves get to fight, but only if they're in base contact.  After the first round of combat Undead player probably won't have any dire wolves to bring into the fight, but can test if there's any left

Okay, so to clarify. You are saying that if those two summoned dire wolves happen to pop up and are not in base contact with the longbeards then tough luck - they dont get to fight?

Correct - you can't place models raised with Nehek in illegal places (i.e. in terrain) so they'd get forced out to the side - you also have to raise them 5 wide in the front rank before you can place them anywhere else (which does kinda suck for dire wolves)

Curious what he expected the result to be of charging dire wolves at a block of longbeards anyway :-P

Alrighty, thanks guys.

@Emergency Rations - I wouldn't call him a brilliant strategist