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Do I have to roll to bring a unit out of reserves, or am I free choose to keep them off the table as long as I want?

IIRC, once you successfully roll for a unit of reserves, that unit must come out of reserves and enter play.

DoW

Pg. 94 BRB, you MUST roll as soon possible, you may not delay


<insert Yo-Sammity Sam noises> Ninjas!

Omega_Warlord wrote:Pg. 94 BRB, you MUST roll as soon possible, you may not delay

What he said.

Really, so many rules questions can be solved by reading the appropriate rules!

Im sure someone will have the exact quotations and page references but to my understanding once a unit has become active form reserves (you made your reserve rolls) you must arrive from reserves. Now there are certain charachters that allow you to reroll the reserve rolls once, meaning if you activate the unit but do not want it you can re-roll to see if you get a failure but if it is a success you must bring the unit on. If I am wrong than someone can feel free to correct me, I have been wrong before.

Starting on turn 2, you must roll for each unit you placed in reserves. If they make the appropriate roll, you must bring them in.
So no, you can't.

I am playing Mech Eldar, so can I use my Autarch's reroll to intentionally fail?

EasyE wrote:I am playing Mech Eldar, so can I use my Autarch's reroll to intentionally fail?

Autarchs do not let you re-roll reserves...

Though if any unit does have a re-roll, as long as it doesn't call for a re-rolling of failed Reserve Rolls, then you could most assuredly re-roll in the hopes of failing the roll. (I have seen this done with a list I played at one point)

Thor665 wrote:Though if any unit does have a re-roll, as long as it doesn't call for a re-rolling of failed Reserve Rolls, then you could most assuredly re-roll in the hopes of failing the roll. (I have seen this done with a list I played at one point)

Indeed. Lictors and Tigrus both allow you to re-roll Successful Reserve rolls.

question, oh mighty gwar of the RaW....

can tigurius let you re-roll outflanking rolls as well?

it says you can re-roll any reserve rolls, and the rules for outflanking are located under the reserves section of the rulebook...

also, same question, involving drop pod scatter. GO!

Horst wrote:can tigurius let you re-roll outflanking rolls as well?

No. An Outflanking roll is an Outflanking roll, not a reserve roll.

also, same question, involving drop pod scatter. GO!

See point on Outflanking.

Also, Tigrus points out that you may re-roll them "Even if they are successful", which begs the question how can an outflank roll fail? As such, it is clear that the ability to re-roll does not apply to this roll, only the roll to see if they arrive from reserve.

u are free to keep the model off the table top as long as you want.. that doesn't mean you are following the rules..but...

....well....yeah. I can also field a Stompa in a 500 point game, I suppose.

Page 94, Rolling For Reserves, third paragraph has the official GW rule method - but as lord if the ghosts notes, you could always house rule it.

Gwar! wrote:

Thor665 wrote:Though if any unit does have a re-roll, as long as it doesn't call for a re-rolling of failed Reserve Rolls, then you could most assuredly re-roll in the hopes of failing the roll. (I have seen this done with a list I played at one point)

Indeed. Lictors and Tigrus both allow you to re-roll Successful Reserve rolls.

And Damocles Rhinos.

The Autarch allows you to add +1, +2 or +0 to the roll. Useful but not as good as re-roll if you're trying to fail.


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lord of the ghosts wrote:u are free to keep the model off the table top as long as you want.. that doesn't mean you are following the rules..but...

Thank you for your contribution good sir, that was most enlightening. Now that we're all aware that we are not compelled to follow the rules (since LotG says so) we can resume discussion of reserve re-rolls.