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Can a vehicle declare a tank shock or ram from reserve, after making a reserve roll?

I don't see why not.

Yes.
You come on in the movement phase, so you're good to go.

Of course, you still have to CALL it and all that...

Eric

Hypothetical situation:

A unit is set up at a board edge in such a way that the vehicle doesn't fit on the board, or can't enter the board. Vehicle declares a tank shock. Unit declares DOG and immobilizes the vehicle.

1) Vehicle is destroyed as there is no place to place it?
2) Don't allow the vehicle to tank shock in the first place?
3) Move aside the DOG unit to make room for the vehicle?

This would get even more complicated if the vehicle in question was a transport with troops inside.

Thoughts?

That's a good point mikhaila. Following the tank shock rules I would expect the vehicle and occupants to be destroyed. Obviously a desperate move for the tank shocking player.

I was thinking more along the lines of keeping my army in reserve. In practice games, if my opponent goes first, he can fairly easily cross the board to objectives on my side, and bring up tanks in support. If it's legal to tank shock or ram from reserve my opponent might have to think twice about what he's willing to risk. Most of the time I'll have room to place the tank...

When you come in from reserves, you move in from a position just off the board. Since that's the only limiting factor, I don't see anything that would prevent you from tank shocking from such a position.

Death or glory gets to be something of a sticky situation. In general, you are not allowed to move off the board. If you are forced to move off the board, your units are considered destroyed (as with the situation of falling back or deep striking off the table). With that precident in mind, if a death or glory would stop the tank off the board and prevent a unit inside form disembarking, then I figure that they would be counted as destroyed.

With that however, I must say that there are no specific rules that really cover this situation (as far I can tell) so it's more of a judgement call than anything that's specificaly supported by the rules.

Phoenix wrote:When you come in from reserves, you move in from a position just off the board. Since that's the only limiting factor, I don't see anything that would prevent you from tank shocking from such a position.

Death or glory gets to be something of a sticky situation. In general, you are not allowed to move off the board. If you are forced to move off the board, your units are considered destroyed (as with the situation of falling back or deep striking off the table). With that precident in mind, if a death or glory would stop the tank off the board and prevent a unit inside form disembarking, then I figure that they would be counted as destroyed.

With that however, I must say that there are no specific rules that really cover this situation (as far I can tell) so it's more of a judgement call than anything that's specificaly supported by the rules.

There is one additional rule to possibly consider (pg 94):

"If a unit has a special rule forcing it to move in a specific direction (such as 'rage', for example) or that could stop it from moving, the rule is ignored in the phase when it arrives from reserve."


However I don't think a DoG attack falls under a the heading of a 'unit. . .special rule' now that I read it carefully.

I agree this is a situation not really covered in the rules and should be FAQ'd.