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What might happen if infiltrators cannot be set up on the board due to placement of servo skulls?

This could only happen with enough skulls and pitched battle deployment...very situational.

But crazy things happen.

Do the infiltrators get destroyed?

I don't think there is a clear rule for this.

Outflank.

But don't you have to decide that before?

Maybe I am mistaken.

But if your opponent chose to infiltrate and couldn't...what might happen?

Unless they can switch to outflank...

Infiltrators can set up in their own deployment zone.

But if you have pitched battle and put your skulls on the line...they could not be able to place their entire unit.

there should be 6" of space on a normal table if the entire line is covered.

the obvious solution is to play on larger tables.

You place servo skulls before deployment, you could choose to outflank at that time. Obviously you could not realize, but I don't think the situation you mention could ever conceivably happen, you would need too many skulls (most you can get is 15 I believe, which would leave very small gaps due to it being a radius. I'm not 100% on this, as I'm no mathematician, but I'm reasonably sure you could find some space even with all 15 (I may be wrong though, I don't know).

There is no way they could block the whole area, but certain armies with high model counts would definitly get shafted.

If you read the rule, they are placed after deployment zones are determined, but before anything is deployed. So technically, once your decide on the deployment zones, before you or your opponent decides what is infiltrating, the servo skulls have to go out.

So even if you can set it up where he can't infiltrate, they will have a very good idea if they can fit a squad on the board before they bother to place any, so shouldn't be a problem. Might make them decide not to infiltrate, but other than that, they should be able to tell if they can setup or not.

Yeah, you can definitely, with a bunch servoskulls and a wall of guys on your deployment zone, give no place to infiltrate.

That said, you can also wall off entire board edges, preventing units from moving on with the regular reserve rules.

In both situations, the rules dont tell us what happens, but INAT may say something like the units are destroyed or go in regular reserve.