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Can anyone post the actual wording in the new DA Codex, I don't have one yet, but I have 2 months before the next RTT I will be running to make the decision.

CA pg 35
"Transport: ... Once the Drop Pod has landed the hatches are blown and all passengers must immediately disembark, following the normal rules for doing so. ...

Access Points: Open-topped Vehicle.

Special Rules
Inertial Guidance System: Drop Pods enter play using the Deep Strike rules from the Mission Special Rules section of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook. They may always enter play using Deep Strike... Should a Drop Pod scatter on top of impassable terrain or another model (friend or foe!), then reduce the scatter distance...

Immobile: ...counts in all respects as a vehicle that has suffered an Immobilized damage result (which cannot be repaired)."

pg 87
"POINTS COST: 50 POINTS"

Jervis Johnson has been quoted on the Bolter and Chainsword as saying you cannot assault out of a DA drop pod the turn it arrives. What more do you need to know that you cannot do it no matter how badly you try to bend and twist the rules with yer RAW bull crap interpretations?

- Greenie

Posted By stjohn70 on 03/12/2007 1:19 PM
but they have the specific rule (pg 21 of the Marine Dex) that says:
"The passengers may not move (other than to disembark) or assault in the turn they land."

The thing is the Dark Angel drop pods (Which is what the discussion is about) don't have that line.

Its been a faq there for quite a while. But now they argue that thats not official. Popcorn anyone?

It is obvious as to how its going to turn out but becasue one codex does not take an extra 200 pages to restate all the official rules that means its changed... Anyone trys to assault my me from a pod and im picking my stuff up and going home.
Its been faq now for a long while and it will more than likely be the same guy that does the (official) faq even so discussion over. Really the horse is dead.

OMFG!!!

Verified.

I fear that the only solution to this will be to go back in time and kill Robert A. Heinlein...