drop pods and assault

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**youbedead**

today in a game with my orks vs. sm i assaulted his drop pod right after it landed and this came up.

do you auto hit it or hit it on 6's

A. it is a immobile vehicle meaning you auto hit

B. it counts as moving at cruising speed so you need 6s

**MinMax**

It doesn't matter how fast a vehicle was moving - as soon as it is Immobile, it is automatically hit.

**Ghaz**

I'm not so sure. The rule says a vehicle that is 'immobilised', not one that is immobile. From page 63 of the Warhammer 40,000 5th edition rulebook:

Attacking a vehicle that is immobilised or was stationary in its previous turn.

'Immobilised' could be referencing the roll of a four on the Vehicle Damage Table and not a vehicle which is immobile to begin with. After all, it's hard to immobilise a vehicle that's already immobile.

**MinMax**

The Space Marine Codex wrote:Immobile: A Drop Pod [...] counts in all respects as a vehicle that has suffered an immobilized damage result

I think it's pretty clear-cut. Drop Pods are always hit automatically in close-combat.

**insaniak**

Ghaz wrote:The rule says a vehicle that is 'immobilised', not one that is immobile.

So far as the Drop Pod is concerned (or at least the new Marine version) they're the same thing.

The Pod is treated as a vehicle that has suffered an Immobilised result on the Damage table.

**Drunkspleen**

assuming insaniak and minmax have it right, I would say you automatically hit, besides, it logically makes sense anyway, it's not like you are trying to melee the thing while it's flying through the air, nobody is going to take a swing till it hits the ground and is immobilised.