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Just a crazy idea, if some kunnin yet brutal, player say...... put Snikrot and his unit in a Battlewagon, hold it in reserves, then come on from any table edge per Snikrot's Ambush rule, what page of the rulebook would you wave in his face to make him stop? It sounds way to good to be true and I must be missing something obvious, or someone smarter than me would have thought of it long ago.

I'm SCARED

Mr. Konrad wrote:Just a crazy idea, if some kunnin yet brutal, player say...... put Snikrot and his unit in a Battlewagon, hold it in reserves, then come on from any table edge per Snikrot's Ambush rule, what page of the rulebook would you wave in his face to make him stop? It sounds way to good to be true and I must be missing something obvious, or someone smarter than me would have thought of it long ago.

The vehicle that Snikrot is riding in would not have his 'Ambush' special rule and therefore could not arrive using it. This is different from the 'Scouts' USR which specifies that it is passed on to transport vehicles the unit is riding in.

And even then, Scouts only works with *dedicated* transports.

Mr. Konrad wrote:Just a crazy idea, if some kunnin yet brutal, player say...... put Snikrot and his unit in a Battlewagon, hold it in reserves, then come on from any table edge per Snikrot's Ambush rule, what page of the rulebook would you wave in his face to make him stop? It sounds way to good to be true and I must be missing something obvious, or someone smarter than me would have thought of it long ago.

Remember a vehicle is still a separate unit even if it's a transport. Therefore:

Page 48: Independentent characters joining and leaving units; subsection special rules: "When an IC Joins a unit, it might have different special rules from those of the unit. Unless specified in the rule itself (as in the 'stubborn' special rule), the unit's special rules are not conferred upon the character, and the character's special rules are not conferred upon the unit.... "

Kc7sbp wrote:Remember a vehicle is still a separate unit even if it's a transport. Therefore:

Page 48: Independentent characters joining and leaving units; subsection special rules: "When an IC Joins a unit, it might have different special rules from those of the unit. Unless specified in the rule itself (as in the 'stubborn' special rule), the unit's special rules are not conferred upon the character, and the character's special rules are not conferred upon the unit.... "

The rule you cited has no bearing on this situation at all, snikrot hasn't Joined the vehicles unit, he is simply mounted in it, there's no way it can gain the ambush rule because it's neither snikrot, nor "his unit" being the one he is a member of. It is simply a vehicle they chose to ride in.

Drunkspleen's got it 100%.

Not to mention that Snikrot isn't an IC.

Good points all. The transport is not his unit, therfore he's hoofing it. I wanted to sound that crazy idea out and hear the "nay"s just so I can put it out of my head.