Flyers and the edge of the board

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**JohnnyHell**

BaconCatBug wrote:
p5freak wrote:
deviantduck wrote:
If the base is 100% on the battlefield, it is on the battlefield.

Thats HYWPI, not RAW. The rules dont say that the base, or a model with no base, must be 100% on the battlefield.
The rules also don't define that a D6 has to be marked 1-6, or that the D6 has to be fair, or what the term "roll" means. There is a level of unspoken, assumed axioms that the game relies on to be playable whatsoever. That is not "bad RaW", it's simply how reality works.

Amen! If everything needs defining, even the super obvious, the rules become unworkable.

**doctortom**

danyboy wrote:
So Space Marine on 25mm base with both hands and cap off the base (who has his arms spread, like pointig on something with giant sword in other hand, and cape raised) is considered being on battlefield when his base is on battlefield or his sword?
And while checking for cover, do you consider base or hand within terrain piece?
Come on it's base all the way (or hull if rules forces us to measure from hull).

If his sword's on the battlefield, then you laid down the model as a casualty and it's pretty much a moot point in that case.

As you say, go with the base when there's a base, or hull when there isn't.

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Dionysodorus wrote:
I'm not sure that the rules ever define what exactly it means to be "on the battlefield", or even that they say that in general models aren't allowed to move off of it (though flyers that are forced to move off of it are destroyed). There's probably a RAW case to be made that as long as any part of the model's base is on the battlefield, it's on the battlefield, since that's how everything else like this works -- you're in cover if any part of your base is in cover, etc.

You could equally make the case that as long as any part of the model's base is off the battlefield then the model's off the battlefield.

**deviantduck**

p5freak wrote:
deviantduck wrote:
If the base is 100% on the battlefield, it is on the battlefield.

Thats HYWPI, not RAW. The rules dont say that the base, or a model with no base, must be 100% on the battlefield.

Well you have to deploy wholly within your deployment zone, so that puts your base within the 6x4. You're not allowed to move off of the battlefield. So.. it's not possible to get your base overhanging the edge.