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Wow, such a simple fact which was missed here.

From the Markerlight Rules:

"To allow a vehicle to fire a single seeker missile at the marked unit."

I feel that while the fluff is that the vehicles aren't able to fire them, they are treated as being the vehicle firing, and given exceptions to allow them to still fire regardless of the vehicles status such as Crew Stunned or moving so far weapons may not be fired.

If you were to allow Seeker Missiles to be used from off the table, then there's no reason that a Deathstrike missile wouldn't be able to be fired off the board as well. Other barrage weapons that don't have an unlimited range would also have a case to make for firing as though they were just off the table as they would be if they arrived from reserves.

focusedfire wrote:There are still off table questions being debated for several other armies. Now about the Deathstrike. It is a model with with stats. The seeker is a weapon with a profile. This is the reason for comparing it to orbital strikes and bombardments as opposed to the deathstrike.

The seeker is a weapon with a profile being fired by a model with stats (the vehicle it is mounted on), or atleast that's what it seems to me, thus drawing the comparison to a deathstrike. I will admit my take on the rules is hardly conclusive, but based on the belief that the vehicle is still firing the missiles technically I think my comparison is accurate.

Green Blow Fly wrote:It would be unfair to fire seeker missiles while the vehicle is in reserve because they have a maximum range which cannot be correctly ascertained if the vehicle is off the table.

There are lots of rules that state you can always perform some action, this just does not only apply to seeker missiles. What's next? To me the answer is an obvious no.

G

Both the Armory and the Summary in the Tau Codex list Seeker Missiles range as simply "unlimited".