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I recently went down to GW and was discussing with my friend the merits of using a Drop Pod and how to best utilise it.

One of the other players came up with a goofy grin and anounced that he used them as drop in cover!

According to the rules he said -> you can deploy the Drop Pod without its men in it (legitemat because troops dont have to start in the dedicated vehicle!)

He then said that because the have not disembarked the Drop Pod that he was allowed to enter the Drop Pod once it had landed because it was not actually
re-embarking (something you cannot do with a Drop Pod).

This he claimed provided excellent cover for his devastator squads and other units as he could place it wherever he wanted.

Now according to RAW this is viable and he noted that accoring to RAI you cant rule either way -> now normally I would be inclined to call it cheating but I am unsure.
I cannot think that GW was actually thinking you may use it as cover, but then again they may just have though of that.

Because it would be more than cover though, until destroyed they would be inside a vehicle and unable to be hit normally until it was destroyed.

Seems like one of the instances where GW have created an unseen bonus/ detraction.

Go for it.

He's cheating. You can drop empty drop pods, but you cannot enter them once their on the ground. You are enering a vehicle, so its embarking.



Shouldn't this be in YMDC?

The rules say you can't reembark on a drop pod, EVER.

Now RAW you can, but the instant you do the hatches pop and now you get out just like you podded down.

then the pod can't be embarked on ever again.


Now dropping down as cover is great a line of pods across the board with say 5" gaps is great cover

Deathwinds would be better *evilgrin*

I liek the idea in so far as blockign line of sight to cover an advance. But having a Dev squad then hide in it woudl probably make me call foul.

You know there was once a guy playing in a magic tourniment who ripped up a lotus card to destroy the opponents army (lotus: throw in air, if card lands face up on another card, remove touched card from play) so he threw the confetty card at his opponents deck and cards.

he won because it was RAW, and people admired him for it, i say nay to ripping cards and cover pods.