Drop Pod Rules Question

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**Warboss Gutrip**

Under the inertial guidance system rules in the Space Marine Codex it states the following: "Should the drop pod scatter on top of impassable terrain or another model (friend or foe!) then reduce the scatter distance by the minimum required in order to avoid the obstacle." My question is, what if the drop pod scatters off the board edge? What is the board edge classed as? Do you reduce the distance, roll on the mishap table, or is the pod and its contents removed? Please answer, or the need to know may drive me insane!

**Amerikon**

The board edge is impassible terrain.

**Eternal Newb**

I believe it suffers a mishap, since under Deep Strike Mishaps it states "land off the table.". I may be wrong, but I don't think off the table counts as impassable since the world ends at the table edge.

**SlaveToDorkness**

Mishap.

The board edge is impassible terrain.

Nope.

**rednekgunner**

The board edge counting as impassable terrain was a 4th ed rule, but in 5th they deleted that sentence from the BRB.

**Warboss Gutrip**

Ok, thanks for the responses. So I was right all along...

**warhammersupernerd**

great, the board edge doesnt count as impassable terrain, but how does the drop pod miss the battlefield? the internal guidence system rule was designed to prevent it from having to go through the messy issues of deepstrike mishap.

**Gwar!**

warhammersupernerd wrote:great, the board edge doesnt count as impassable terrain, but how does the drop pod miss the battlefield? the internal guidence system rule was designed to prevent it from having to go through the messy issues of deepstrike mishap.

No, it wasn't. It was made to avoid the messy issues of Landing in Impassible terrain. Board edge != Impassible terrain, so it mishaps.

How is it a messy situation? If it gets Delayed it just goes back into reserves and comes on as normal.

**warhammersupernerd**

but the drop pod "Internal guidence system" states:

"Should the drop pod scatter on top of impassable terrain or another model (friend or foe!) then reduce the scatter distance by the mininum required to avoid the obstacle"

Doesn't that mean that you have to reduce the scatter so you DON'T land on impassable terrain, thus not having to do anything about the deepstrike mishap table?

**GiantKiller**

Doesn't that mean that you have to reduce the scatter so you DON'T land on impassable terrain, thus not having to do anything about the deepstrike mishap table?

That's exactly what that means... when you're landing on impassible terrain.

But the board edge isn't impassible terrain so the inertial guidance system rule doesn't apply.

-GK

**warhammersupernerd**

arrrrrgh. can som1 give me a more sound definition to the bored edge OTHER then the end of the world? (thats the RAW)

**Thor665**

Under deep strike mishaps (pg. 95 of the rulebook) it states that you'll experience a mishap when your unit would;

"land off the table, in impassable terrain, on top of a friendly model, or within 1" of an enemy model"

Therefore the definition of landing off the table puts your unit "off the table" *not* in impassable terrain, which is something different. That's why the drop pod ability wouldn't come into effect.

**warhammersupernerd**

hmmm.. well that makes sense now that i see that quote.. and much to my anoyance too. Damn the adaptus mechanicus, why cant they invent a guidence system that works! May the emperor damn them for eternity!

**Warboss Gutrip**

So, Warhammersupernerd, I was right all along. Shame it took about 12 veteran gamers to convince you.