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I'm trying to make an army list for 40K orks, but in the Codex where all the troops have information about Transports, the Independent Characters have nothing.

Are there specific rules I'm missing to determine whether or not a Warboss/Weirdboy/etc. can ride in a Trukk as a dedicated transport?

If they can not be assigned one, they can not be issued their own. However, it is permitted for them to embark into another unit's transport.

Here's an interesting ponderance... does it say anywhere in the rulebook that you can NOT embark into an enemy transport?

Skinnattittar wrote:Here's an interesting ponderance... does it say anywhere in the rulebook that you can NOT embark into an enemy transport?

The part where you can't move closer than 1" of an enemy model except when assaulting would cover it. Also, the rulebook is meant to be interpreted as such that it tells you what you can do, and does not convey that you can do something because it does not say you can't.

So basically I would have to leave the warboss outside of the trukk and then embark on the first turn.

Dobie wrote:So basically I would have to leave the warboss outside of the trukk and then embark on the first turn.

If an IC is claimed as attached to a unit at deployment, he can deploy in a dedicated transport with that unit.

KaloranSLC wrote:

Skinnattittar wrote:Here's an interesting ponderance... does it say anywhere in the rulebook that you can NOT embark into an enemy transport?

The part where you can't move closer than 1" of an enemy model except when assaulting would cover it. Also, the rulebook is meant to be interpreted as such that it tells you what you can do, and does not convey that you can do something because it does not say you can't.

You only have to move within 2" of a door to embark on a vehicle, so you could get in that range without being within 1", and the rulebook does tell you what you can do, it says "A unit can embark onto a vehicle by moving each model to within 2" of its access points in the Movement phase." The transport rules fail to ever specify they can only carry friendly troops and given they allow the broader "units" to embark, by RAW a model may embark on an enemy transport.

If you have a transport with space free in it then you can deploy it with the IC and a unit in it.

Drunkspleen wrote:

KaloranSLC wrote:

Skinnattittar wrote:Here's an interesting ponderance... does it say anywhere in the rulebook that you can NOT embark into an enemy transport?

The part where you can't move closer than 1" of an enemy model except when assaulting would cover it. Also, the rulebook is meant to be interpreted as such that it tells you what you can do, and does not convey that you can do something because it does not say you can't.

You only have to move within 2" of a door to embark on a vehicle, so you could get in that range without being within 1", and the rulebook does tell you what you can do, it says "A unit can embark onto a vehicle by moving each model to within 2" of its access points in the Movement phase." The transport rules fail to ever specify they can only carry friendly troops and given they allow the broader "units" to embark, by RAW a model may embark on an enemy transport.

Wow, that's drawing at straws.

KaloranSLC wrote:Wow, that's drawing at straws.

It is... but damn by RAW its actually true.

Not that anyone could get away with playing it that way save by some crazy house rule.

No it is not. Because when embarked the unit measures distance and range from the hull of the transport. Therefore, when embarked, the unit is most definitely within 1" of the vehicle. So it can't be done.

Yes - you cant willingly break a rule in the future by your actions now. By attemptiong to embark you WILL bring yourself within 1" so you cannot therefore embark.

As for the OP question: When an IC is attached to a unit, which can be at deployment (or when in reserves) they may then embark the same transport as the combioned unit is a whole single entity - Page 3 of BRB i believe.