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The nasty nids and orks are ganging up on me. Might I expect genestealers to start the game in ork trukks, or is this against the rules?

My understanding is that despite the FOC de-restriction and the subsequent possibility of transport spam, the BRB rule that a transport "can only carry the unit it was selected with" remains and that as an ork trukk can't be selected with genestealers or v.v. then they can't start the game together. My understanding is that it would also be possible for the 'stealers to hitch a lift on a trukk at the start of the game but would then not be able to assault that turn.

Is my understanding correct? Thanks chaps.

Put them in a battlewagon instead. Perfectly legal on HS battelwagons, and 20 stealers piling out of one of those would be vicious.

As to the trukks, i'd have to say no. You could joyride, but not start in them

It's apocalypse. Anything goes.
TBH talk to the guys before hand and decide. Our Halloween megabattle can have a Carnafex pop out of a landraider (we just assume it's worth 5 models) as it all depends on the rules you set up in Apocalypse.

Have fun with it, call them infested Orks or something, then again if it seems like it might kill you before turn 2, talk to them about balancing it out.

The key to apocalypse is having as much fun as possible while marching as many Orks to their doom as you can, whilst simultaneously causing marines to slip over Ork body parts and die a horrible death.

There will always be more Orks, can you 'Umies say the same?

This reminds me of a fun detail during a two-day 54000 point Apoc game between 18 players, Nids v Imperium. The runner of the Genestealer/Lictor ambush formation elected his opponent mate's command Land Raider as the piece of 'terrain' they would emerge from. This 'Raider contained a Blood Angels command squad... until on turn 1 his Heirodule reduced it to a pile of slag, and on turn 2...

Excellent, so anything goes then. Hahahaha I'm so gonna die ;P

I would have fun with the game. Just say it is a genestealer cult truck haha. Then hit it with a str D gun an laugh hahaha.

Bring a purple limo instead, at the same scale, with miniguns where the headlights ought to be

I miss the old stealer cults :(