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Does it say anywhere in the rules that when you Drop Pod, Deep Strike or Summon Demons that it occurs at the start of the round?

I played against a guy who made his reserves rolls, moved units around and then drop podded in. It didn't matter to me because he was making mistakes about where he was deploying ( dropping stuff in front of tactical squads...), and you never interupt your opponent when he makes a mistake.

But this got me thinking, and I've never seen a rule that says when you bring the units on.

Yup.

Reserves specifies that you make the rolls at the start of the turn, and deploy each unit as soon as it becomes available.

Summoning specifies that it happens at the start of the turn.

Summoning is very clear that it happens at the beginning of the turn. No moving your icons forward first!

Podding and Deep Striking are less clear.

Most people seem to agree that the passage in the rulebook which says units have to come on as soon as they are available means they move on before units already on the table move, but that’s not a universal interpretation.

As the topic linked below shows, some people read even more into that line, seeing the intent of “as soon as they become available” to mean that you roll for each unit and immediately place it, even before rolling for the next unit. That interpretation has now been debunked by the FAQ ruling about combining units which come in on the same turn, but whether “as soon as they become available” means you’re supposed to put those units down immediately after making reserve rolls, before moving on to regular unit movement, is not really specified.

Some people just read it as meaning that you’re not allowed to wait until the next turn, but that reserve units still move onto the table in the movement phase like normal units, and you can intermix the order however you like.

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