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I thought that I had seen somewhere that pinned/gone to ground units can't claim or contest objectives. But now I can't seem to find the ruling. If someone could point me to the rule I would greatly appreciate it, or did I just make this up in my head?

Under the scoring units discription it says something to the effect of the only things that make a troop unit not scoring are being a vehicle, being broken, or having a special rule that says they can't score. So you may just be confusing being pinned with being broken.

Seems to be a common misconception. There is no rule preventing units which have gone to ground (voluntarily or through pinning) from scoring/contesting.

The going to ground rules state that a unit that has gone to ground can do nothing of its own volition until the following turn.

Some places/tournaments I've played in construe "controlling an objective" as doing something volitional, even though there's a good argument that just "being"--which a unit does without volition--within 3" is sufficient. This is one where I can see both sides of the argument semantically.

Incidentally, if controlling an objective is a volitional action, then turbo-boosting units can't do it either according to the way the turbo-boosting rule is written.

Also there's a tyranid rule that can be construed as saying a lurking unit can't be a scoring unit? I don't have my nid codex handy, but the rule just adds to the whole going-to-ground/pinning/lurking confusion.

Flavius Infernus wrote:Also there's a tyranid rule that can be construed as saying a lurking unit can't be a scoring unit? I don't have my nid codex handy, but the rule just adds to the whole going-to-ground/pinning/lurking confusion.

Just thought I would clarify this, it's pretty clear in this case as the Tyranid Codex states "Lurking Tyranids may not claim objectives or hold table quarters."