Here's something that came up in our *very first* game of EPIC40K which we
still haven't resolved. Check it out!
SitRep:
Marine player has purchased an infantry detachment without vehicles so he can
drop pod deploy them. This detachment has scout in it.
The Game:
Marine drops his troops. The scouts jump out of their pods, move 30cm then
take a regular move.
The Rules:
1) Infiltrators get 30cm bonus move if they don't deploy on the table.
2) Drop Pods enter as reserves
How we did it:
* Drop Pod troops are not deployed as they entered by reserves
* Since they are not deployed, they should get their bonus move
* The only "reality" argument is something like: "Cool! Decoy drop pods."
The story:
Scouts drop with decoy pods to confuse the enemy of their drop location. The
real pods are highly shielded and employ chameleon fields to make them hard to
spot especially since the enemy eye is drawn toward to decoy pod.
What really happened:
We were all stunned. Scrambling through the rules could neither comfirm nor
deny anything. I thought it was such a cool idea that I let the marine player
do it. It turns out that the scouts didn't add very much to the drop force and
nobody has done it again ever since so we quietly forgot about it.
Sean U
"Give me a can of worms, I'll open it."
Received on Thu Sep 04 1997 - 18:25:33 UTC
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