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A question came up about the Trygon Deep Strike (Subterranean Assault): "When a Trygon deploys via deep strike if it scatters on top of impassable terrain or another model friend or foe, reduce the scatter distance by the minimum required to avoid the obstacle." What exactly does that mean? Does that mean it can NEVER be within 1" of a model, and therefore NEVER rolls on the mishap table? Or does it just mean if it scatters onto any enemy model, move it slightly away and thus still have to roll on the mishap table. (If it means move it 1" away, why in the world wouldn't they just say a Trygon can never mishap?!?!!?! and make it clearer)

It avoids mishap in those cases, but can still suffer Mishap if it lands off table.

ikky2win wrote:A question came up about the Trygon Deep Strike (Subterranean Assault): "When a Trygon deploys via deep strike if it scatters on top of impassable terrain or another model friend or foe, reduce the scatter distance by the minimum required to avoid the obstacle." What exactly does that mean? Does that mean it can NEVER be within 1" of a model, and therefore NEVER rolls on the mishap table? Or does it just mean if it scatters onto any enemy model, move it slightly away and thus still have to roll on the mishap table. (If it means move it 1" away, why in the world wouldn't they just say a Trygon can never mishap?!?!!?! and make it clearer)

It means that if you scatter onto an enemy model, reduce the distance so it doesn't mishap (you know, just like the rule tells you to do).

The table edge still makes you mishap, as does aiming it somewhere that would cause a mishap and rolling a hit.

ikky2win wrote:
Well the second part is where the question arises. He deep striked within an inch of one of my guys and rolled a hit

Then he was an idiot and would have had to roll on the Mishap Table

ikky2win wrote:Well the second part is where the question arises. He deep striked within an inch of one of my guys and rolled a hit

Yes, he was an idiot and would have mishaped then.

Sorry for grave-digging an old threat.

My question is about the rules of Subterrancean Assault
""Any Tyranid infantry units (excluding those with wings) that arrive from reserve in subsequent turns may attempt to utilise this tunnel network and emerge from it instead of arriving as normal. If they choose to do so....."

Let's say the reserve units are 1 Trygon, 1 units of Devilgant, 1 units of Hormagaunts.

In turn 2, Trygon pop out after getting successful roll on reserve.

So in turn 3, can all the reserve units (the Devilgant and Hormagaunts) all come out from the tunnel together? (if both got successful roll from reserve and choose to deploy through the tunnel)
Or, only 1 unit can use the tunnel to deploy from reserve at one turn?

Also, if a lictor is on the table, can the trygon just pop out within 6" of it without needing to roll for scatter? (via rules of deep strike)

Mr Gold wrote:So in turn 3, can all the reserve units (the Devilgant and Hormagaunts) all come out from the tunnel together? (if both got successful roll from reserve and choose to deploy through the tunnel)
Or, only 1 unit can use the tunnel to deploy from reserve at one turn?

Read the rest of the rule - "No more than a single unit may emerge from each tunnel entrance in the same turn."

Mr Gold wrote:Also, if a lictor is on the table, can the trygon just pop out within 6" of it without needing to roll for scatter? (via rules of deep strike)

Yes, but note that the lictor must be on the table at the start of the turn to use pheromone trail - i.e. it must have arrived from reserve on a previous turn.