Emergency Disembarkation and the "turn."

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**willydstyle**

So in the rulebook, it says that passengers of a vehicle which are forced to perform an emergency disembark may not do anything "for the rest of the turn."

So for example, if the unit's transport is destroyed in the shooting phase at the "top" of the turn may not move or fire in their own shooting phase at the "bottom" of the turn.

But by RAW, if the unit's transport is destroyed in the "bottom" of the turn they're just fine and dandy at the "top" of the next turn.

Am I missing something, or is this just really silly?

**Centurian99**

Nope. As far as I can tell, the rule is there to prevent players from doing things like zooming forward 24" and ramming, then deploying troops and assaulting in the same turn.

**willydstyle**

The way I read it, it seemed like a penalty for letting your opponent block your transports disembarcation points.

**Webbe**

My guess is they forgot how the rules worked when they wrote the rules...

**Lordhat**

willydstyle wrote:So in the rulebook, it says that passengers of a vehicle which are forced to perform an emergency disembark may not do anything "for the rest of the turn."

So for example, if the unit's transport is destroyed in the shooting phase at the "top" of the turn may not move or fire in their own shooting phase at the "bottom" of the turn.

But by RAW, if the unit's transport is destroyed in the "bottom" of the turn they're just fine and dandy at the "top" of the next turn.

Am I missing something, or is this just really silly?

You're missing the explanation of the term "turn".

BGB pg.9 wrote:
Hence one game turn will comprise two player turns. Whenever a rule uses the word 'turn' both in this rule book and in the Codexes, it means 'player turn', otherwise it will clearly state 'game turn'.

Therefore if the unit's transport is destroyed in the shooting phase at the "top" of the turn it may move and fire in their own shooting phase at the "bottom" of the turn.

**yakface**

Webbe wrote:My guess is they forgot how the rules worked when they wrote the rules...

I don't think so. That rule has a very important purpose and that is to prevent players from purposely utilizing the emergency disembarkation rule for their benefit.

Without that rule in place players could move their transport in a way to *ensure* that their access points were blocked by the enemy so they could disembark their models from any point on the model. That way they could ensure their vehicle stays facing the way they want and the disembarking models get to be placed wherever the player wants in order to shoot and/or assault (in the case of something like a Land Raider).

**Webbe**

Maybe you are right.

I still think a unit should be penalized from having opponents block the exits when the transport is blown up though, instead of getting more places to go.

Maybe I'm overly critical towards the author but I feel that the rules is meant to say that but doesn't.

So in short, I think that the rules are meant to say game turn and not (player) turn.

**willydstyle**

Thanks lordhat, that quotation of the definition of "turn" clears things up. For some reason I thought that the opposite was true: that "turn" meant "game turn" rather than "player turn."