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oh yes, so it is. p.10

'In your turn, you can move any of your units -- all of them if you wish -- up to their maximum move distance.'

So be it.

That pretty well chinches it for me, I think. Combat speed is 0-18" (or exactly 18" since you can't voluntarily move less than 18" and cruising speed is >18"-36".

Something else to clear up here as several people seem to be under the wrong impression - getting velocity locked locks you to either combat speed or cruising speed, not whatever distance you moved in the previous round. That seems to mean always move 18.00001" so if you get velocity locked, you have the full cruising speed range.

With no downside to moving further than 18", it would seem so.

Also, even with locked velocity you can still make the initial turn. So I fail to see how easy it would be for someone to block all possible 18" spots to make you crash (green tide orks?).

Just move cruising speed and it will never be a problem

Blood and Slaughter wrote:oh yes, so it is. p.10

'In your turn, you can move any of your units -- all of them if you wish -- up to their maximum move distance.'

Thank you! I knew that was in there somewhere, it would have been much better had I found it myself last week when it was brought up but oh well.

Leth wrote:Just move cruising speed and it will never be a problem

Quite.

Which, (though please bear in mind that I completely agree that RAW the distances are Combat =18", Cruising >18" to36" still makes me think that something is awry with what the rules say versus what the writers intended.

Well said, but we all know RAW != RAI, don't we

EDIT : I was Ninja'd!

I think that this (as kindly broughtb to my attention by nos) clinches that RAW is that both have a range:

p.10

'In your turn, you can move any of your units -- all of them if you wish -- up to their maximum move distance.'


The odd thing being that as Cruising is effectively the min.18" to the max 36", that makes 'fixed velocity' as it is currently written, somewhat pointless.

Blood and Slaughter wrote:

Kevin949 wrote:

Luide wrote:A word of warning: Some of the summaries contradict actual rules. For example, for exploding vehicles summary states that "passengers must disembark 3 inches" whereas actual rules text is quite different.

?? No, it says they disembark but are limited to a 3" move, same as wrecked but with the addition of the hits taken.

While I agree that the summary and the rule are worded differently, it does still operate the same and as it should.

In fairness the rule says 'Surviving passengers are placed where the vehicle used to be', which is quite different to the summary's 'must disembark but are limited to a 3" move'

I see no special reason to give precedence to the narrative rules over the summary but in both cases (flyer Zooming moves and transport Explodes results), only one -- or neither -- can be correct.

This is especially true because of the use of the word "disembark". In the summary, when a vehicle explodes the passengers have to disembark. But in the rules section it doesn't say that. You might think that this doesn't matter (I did), but some people are arguing in a different thread that you can still assault from an exploded vehicle on your next assault phase, but not from a wrecked one because you have to "disembark" from a wrecked vehicle but not from an exploded one.

In a forum dedicated to rules as written and filled by rules lawyers, precise wording matters.

Grugknuckle wrote:

Blood and Slaughter wrote:

Kevin949 wrote:

Luide wrote:A word of warning: Some of the summaries contradict actual rules. For example, for exploding vehicles summary states that "passengers must disembark 3 inches" whereas actual rules text is quite different.

?? No, it says they disembark but are limited to a 3" move, same as wrecked but with the addition of the hits taken.

While I agree that the summary and the rule are worded differently, it does still operate the same and as it should.

In fairness the rule says 'Surviving passengers are placed where the vehicle used to be', which is quite different to the summary's 'must disembark but are limited to a 3" move'

I see no special reason to give precedence to the narrative rules over the summary but in both cases (flyer Zooming moves and transport Explodes results), only one -- or neither -- can be correct.

This is especially true because of the use of the word "disembark". In the summary, when a vehicle explodes the passengers have to disembark. But in the rules section it doesn't say that. You might think that this doesn't matter (I did), but some people are arguing in a different thread that you can still assault from an exploded vehicle on your next assault phase, but not from a wrecked one because you have to "disembark" from a wrecked vehicle but not from an exploded one.

In a forum dedicated to rules as written and filled by rules lawyers, precise wording matters.

Doesn't assaulting from a vehicle you disembarked from only matter on "your" turn? And since most vehicles are wrecked or destroyed in your opponents turn, it wouldn't matter. I suppose the only time it would matter is a flat out skimmer getting immobilized but even then you wouldn't be able to assault (if the cargo survives) since the vehicle moved flat out. Uh, anyway, off topic. Sorry.