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Hi guys, tonight i was playing against a BA at my LGS, and it's the fist time i see a dread using this weapon the magma grapple or something like that, i kinda recalled the basics on the weapon, however here's the thing our mission was objectives with dawn of war, on the first turn the BA drop pod lands right next to my chimera... it shoots it with his Str8 thingy and scores a weapon destroyed, so here starts the grapple part, it stated that if a hit was dealt by the range attack it can attempt to pull the enemy vehicle to the dread, and it only stops if crossed by terrain or other vehicle, so this guy passes the test to drag it and being just landed from a drop pod it obviously drags it more than the distance between the two. The question is does the tank automatically enters on close combat with the dread? I read the rules and to my interpretation the vehicle stops at 1" from the dread, therefore being unable to assault it (since the dread just entered via deep strike), but this guy starts telling me how if the distance reaches the dread it can engage him on close combat. We couldn't find anything as a FAQ or something regarding this, how do you guys play it? and if there is a FAQ or something where could i find it?

Without breaking out my codex, i'd say you were right about the deep striking rules. I presume the dread didn't drag the chimera around the drop pod did it? Cause if he did I'm not sure that's legal

"... will stop if it comes within 1" of ... another vehicle".

It stops when it hits 1", so never makes base to base contact with the Dread and cannot initiate an assault.

As above. The dread still has to make an assault move.