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Thunderfire Cannons are allowed to be loaded into drop pods. But when a unit disembarks from a drop pod, they count as moving. When artillery moves (or counts as moving) they can't fire that turn. So if you put a TFC in a drop pod, it has to sit out in the open for a turn before it can fire. Sounds like throwing 135 points down the drain to me. Is there any point of putting a Thunderfire Cannon into a drop pod?

If you are playing a drop pod army and want another pod for DP assault rule. Deploy the cannon in a ruin and drop the pod empty.

There is almost no point at all in podding the cannon. It's mostly a waste of points.

There are two reasons that it exists as an option.

1. You are trying to manipulate the drop pod distribution.
2. It's Dawn of War and the pod will get it to a good/better position than if it were to walk onto the board.

So basically, there are reasons, but not something that'll come up so often that you'd take it on a consistant basis.