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I had this trick pulled on me recently at my local.

Land speeder storm deepstrike within 6" of my CSM with icon of nurgle. Opponent then opens up with a boltgun line at me and begins counting 4+ as wounds. I object and he says Jamming beacon on Land speeder states that "....Chaos icons...do not function within 6" of a Land speeder storm" and thus the +1T from the icon is negated."

I decided not to argue the point as I suspected he was TFG, and lost the unit.

Did I get shafted?

You didn't get shafted on the 4+ to wound part. As Strength 4 on Toughness 4 you need 4s. But I think the jamming beacon makes them role 3d6 for deep striking units.

SMforbreakfast wrote:I had this trick pulled on me recently at my local.

Land speeder storm deepstrike within 6" of my CSM with icon of nurgle. Opponent then opens up with a boltgun line at me and begins counting 4+ as wounds. I object and he says Jamming beacon on Land speeder states that "....Chaos icons...do not function within 6" of a Land speeder storm" and thus the +1T from the icon is negated."

I decided not to argue the point as I suspected he was TFG, and lost the unit.

Did I get shafted?

He was TFG. Only the Deep Strike ability of the Icon is stopped. They still have the +1T

You left out the whole rule:

Teleport homers, Chaos Icons and similar wargear items that prevent deep strike scatter do not function within 6" of a Land Speeder Storm.

I totally agree with your interpretation of the rule Gwar.

His argument was that:

-Teleport homers dont work
-Chaos icons dont work
-Similar wargear items that prevent deep strike scatter don't work

these were 3 different stipulations for the rule, and that if any other item of wargear that prevented deep strike had an additional rule that it also would not take effect. Unfortunately 3 people in the store agreed with his interpretation....

All 4 people in your example are idiots and should be punished with nails and hot glue.

Yep, it sounds like you got the shaft.

Just to play devil's advocate though, the rule says that those items do not function. The guy very likely was a TFG, but he could've also just been taking a very literal interpretaion of the rule. I guess the rule could be written, "Teleport homers, Chaos Icons and similar wargear items that prevent deep strike scatter do not function within 6" of a Land Speeder Storm when used to prevent deep strike scattering." (Italicized portion is mine)

However, that sounds very redundant.

Yeah the way how it worded is totally up to interpretation, i would say it stops the funtion of the Icon, homer and what ever else that deep strikes...
( now question is does that include veil of darkness and gate)

Ok Icon doesn't work but all models are given a Mark, then answer should be that they still have their mark even if the Icon isn't working ... the rule is they have it till the icon bearer is killed.

Ah Tri, I like it!

If he tries to pull that again I'll use that argument

Now where is my hot glue......?

Beaten, but yea, all the jamming did would be to force you to roll to scatter if you had a unit deepstrike nearby.

I would never even dream of playing this way, but I think what the guy mentioned in the OP is actually correct RAW, it quite plainly states that Chaos Icons don't work within 6" of a Land Speeder Storm.

edit: Having read Tri's response he is correct, they have been given the mark, and nothing says they lose it except for the death of the model with the Icon.