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Yeh OK I see now, I have to say I can't really see anything wrong with that, it could be an intentional grab for extra or it could simply be a function of a normal move.

Magpie wrote:Yeh OK I see now, I have to say I can't really see anything wrong with that, it could be an intentional grab for extra or it could simply be a function of a normal move.

Your diagram doesn't illustrate that it's possible to grab extra distance by pivoting before movement. Your diagram illustrates that if you move the center point of a model forward then the center point will move farther.

If you put the center points of a model at the same starting point, the distance covered by pivoting about that center point does not change regardless of whether you pivot at the start of the move or afterwards. Notice how my corrected diagram reflects this by placing the center points at the same starting point. Both the top example and the bottom example cover the exact same distance.

TedNugent wrote:If you put the center points of a model at the same starting point,

But you can't do that. The original line is the limit of your deployment zone and you're not allowed to cross it.
So you deploy sideways, with the side of your vehicle on the deployment line.
The center of the model will be closer to the deployment line than the center of the same model if you deployed facing forward.
Sideways deploy, pivot forward will have the centerpoint ahead of a vehicle deployed with the front of the model at the deployment line.

rigeld2 wrote:

TedNugent wrote:If you put the center points of a model at the same starting point,

But you can't do that. The original line is the limit of your deployment zone and you're not allowed to cross it.
So you deploy sideways, with the side of your vehicle on the deployment line.
The center of the model will be closer to the deployment line than the center of the same model if you deployed facing forward.
Sideways deploy, pivot forward will have the centerpoint ahead of a vehicle deployed with the front of the model at the deployment line.

Oh. That makes sense.

Then you could gain a head start at the start of deploment.

TedNugent wrote:Then you could gain a head start at the start of deploment.

Which is what this entire thread has been about.

rigeld2 wrote:

TedNugent wrote:Then you could gain a head start at the start of deploment.

Which is what this entire thread has been about.

Oh. Derp. Well I've got nothing else to say then. I agree.