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my buddies and i were playing in a appoc. game the other day and my foes;chaos; used some kind of formation, not sure what it was called; that allowed them to deepstrike all of their reserves onto a warp rift on the board. i had the disruptor beacon which they said wouldnt work because of the wording of their special formation. they then assaulted on the turn that they deepstriked. my questions are three.
1 what is the name of the stupid formation that they used.
2 does the disruptor beacon work against the warp rift/formation stupidity.
3 can you really assault after stepping through the warp rift or were they just pulling my leg. that seems like its awful powerful.

1: Its called warp rift
2: not sure
3: Yes they can assault on that same turn

Warp Rift only applies for daemons right? Don't have the book with me but I'm pretty sure they can't drop everything in reserve out of a rift.

But if I used Daemons Warp Rift could be great fun.

if you use this power just know that your opponent can choose null feild as one of his strat. assets. if they do choose null feild then they will get to see where you put the warp rift and be able to counter it by placing their warp feild directly on top of your rift. in this case the figures you were going to summon through the rift will not be able to enter play at all and they will essentially be lost as far as the battle is concerned. i did this to my foes in the last game of apoc. that we played. now THEY call me the evil one, and i play Ultramarines where they play chaos. funny huh. alas i doubt that they will ever use that warp rift against me in a game of apoc.

Sorry man I had a gander at the Apoc today and I don't think you can use the Null Field like that OR Use the warp rift for anything but the Daemons in the formation itself.

See the Null Field asset must be placed during deployment with the rest of your army so you can only protect 12" of your deployment zone. The Warp Rift is placed right after objectives (Can it count as an object maybe? Not sure) so you can't use it to completely cancel out their formation and hundreds of points of daemons.

But again if your opponent was using it to deploy his Strategic Reserves even the non-daemons then thats completely out of order. Only the daemons in the formation and only on the second turn or after can they deploy out of the rift.

With the Assets its always best to make sure ya have the "When this asset is revealed" right as otherwise stuff like you said can happen.