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Hi guys,

Can someone just clarify something for me please about dedicated transports.

For example with an Ork Battle wagon. If you take it as a dedicated transport for something, does it also take up a heavy support slot?

Thanks?

No, it dies not. A dedicated transport 'shares' the force org slot with whatever unit you buy it for and nothing else.

mikeyboyj wrote:Hi guys,

Can someone just clarify something for me please about dedicated transports.

For example with an Ork Battle wagon. If you take it as a dedicated transport for something, does it also take up a heavy support slot?

Thanks?

No, Dedicated Transports never take up a FoC Selection.

But would that transport fall under the slot if in a mission you have to destroy all your enemies heavy supports in the case of dedicated land raiders?

Kurgash wrote:But would that transport fall under the slot if in a mission you have to destroy all your enemies heavy supports in the case of dedicated land raiders?

It's not a Heavy Support choice.

Ok, was just a conflict because it comes from the heavy support options but is not taken as a choice, the guy argued it was still considered a HS for terms of mission rules.

He was wrong.

Yeah, pretty simply he was wrong. It actually counts as whatever slot the Unit it was bought for is.

yup, no slot cost. that is the *only* benefit a dedicated transport gets. somehow people keep thinking they get additional benefits like not counting for killpoints which is totally false.

Gwar! wrote:Yeah, pretty simply he was wrong. It actually counts as whatever slot the Unit it was bought for is.

+1 if it was purchased for troops it counts a troop unit.. likewise for elites and hq's

Thanks all,

Also is it right that you can take a dedicated transport for a unit - and then start a different unit embarked in it?

Or do you have to deploy them next to each other and get the other unit in it on your first turn?

Thanks

Dedicated transports can deploy empty, or carrying the unit they were bought with.

You can't buy a dedicated transport for unit A and deploy unit B inside it, but you can deploy the tranpsort empty, parked in front of unit B so they can hop in during your first movement phase.

Page 67* tells you *exactly* how dedicated transport differ to normal transports - you cannot deploy a unit inside it unless it was the unit that bougght the DT [and any attached ICs]

*pretty certain it is this page, there is a big "box out"

forkbanger wrote:Dedicated transports can deploy empty, or carrying the unit they were bought with.

You can't buy a dedicated transport for unit A and deploy unit B inside it, but you can deploy the tranpsort empty, parked in front of unit B so they can hop in during your first movement phase.

...unless the codex states that the dedicated transport may only carry it's dedicated unit, in which case other units may not embark in it. Most transports do not have this condition, however.

Only one that I can think of, which is DH who did not have the same update as WH.