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May a unit deep stike directly onto a second, third, etc. storey of a ruin?

No, as explicitly stated in the deepstrike rules and ruins. They only ever hit the ground floor.

Aren't ruins difficult terrian, therefore causing Deep Strike misshap if you try to DS inside them?

Herr Dexter wrote:Aren't ruins difficult terrian, therefore causing Deep Strike misshap if you try to DS inside them?

They take dangerous tests. Mishap is for IMPASSABLE or off the table.

Herr Dexter wrote:Aren't ruins difficult terrian, therefore causing Deep Strike misshap if you try to DS inside them?

Not sure why so many people think this. You only mishap for landing in impassible terrain, off the board edge, within 1" of an enemy or on your own troops. (ohh right and within 12" of a warpquaking squad).

Otherwise, landing in terrain is a Dangerous Terrain test.

I had been told that a deep striking drop pod would land on the top story of the building, rather than move to the side of it (as per the inertial guidance system rule)

I'd be interested to find the right way to play this.

s.j.mccartney wrote:I had been told that a deep striking drop pod would land on the top story of the building, rather than move to the side of it (as per the inertial guidance system rule)

I'd be interested to find the right way to play this.

The inertial guidance will only avoid impassable terrain, not difficult (see ruins). And as the rules for DS say ground floor the pod would land on the bottom floor.

Ok, thats surprising, tought I got rules right but obviously I was wrong
Good to know. I do wanted to DS into ruins to be LOS.

One question tho, do all the models in unit take dangerous terrain test or only ones who actually are in contact with ruins? (if part of unit is inside and part outside and it was not your intention to hit ruins, it was a scatter)

Only the ones actually in the difficult (counts as dangerous) terrain take the tests, as per the usual rules for difficult and dangerous terrain tests

I believe you can't do it on purpose, however a simple stroke of bad luck requires a DT test

s.j.mccartney wrote:I had been told that a deep striking drop pod would land on the top story of the building, rather than move to the side of it (as per the inertial guidance system rule)

I'd be interested to find the right way to play this.

If you meant to ask about hitting the top story of a ruin, the rest have it.
You actually asked about the top of a building, that is very different. Buildings are impassible, generally speaking. (Main rules, pages 78-79)
Which means that if you somehow (deliberately?) Deepstrike a drop pod onto a building, it mishaps.

BlapBlapBlap wrote:I believe you can't do it on purpose, however a simple stroke of bad luck requires a DT test

Why wouldn't you be able to do it on purpose? Units can always choose to move into Dangerous Terrain. Deep Striking is no exception.

kirsanth wrote:

s.j.mccartney wrote:I had been told that a deep striking drop pod would land on the top story of the building, rather than move to the side of it (as per the inertial guidance system rule)

I'd be interested to find the right way to play this.

If you meant to ask about hitting the top story of a ruin, the rest have it.
You actually asked about the top of a building, that is very different. Buildings are impassible, generally speaking. (Main rules, pages 78-79)
Which means that if you somehow (deliberately?) Deepstrike a drop pod onto a building, it mishaps.

Page 78 says that "if it is possible to physically place models on top of an impassable building, jump infantry, ... are allowed to end their move there, treating it as dangerous terrain." I'd say a drop pod could land there too - but you'd have to talk it over with the opponent beforehand.

Though how would they get down?

rigeld2 wrote:Page 78 says that "if it is possible to physically place models on top of an impassable building, jump infantry, ... are allowed to end their move there, treating it as dangerous terrain." I'd say a drop pod could land there too - but you'd have to talk it over with the opponent beforehand.

Pods are not skimmers, and vehicles are not on the list.

You are within your rights to ask, but its not the actual rules - which I think should be mentioned if you do.

kirsanth wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:Page 78 says that "if it is possible to physically place models on top of an impassable building, jump infantry, ... are allowed to end their move there, treating it as dangerous terrain." I'd say a drop pod could land there too - but you'd have to talk it over with the opponent beforehand.

Pods are not skimmers, and vehicles are not on the list.

You are within your rights to ask, but its not the actual rules - which I think should be mentioned if you do.

I'll give you that - when I first remembered that little rule I didn't remember the unit restriction, but still wanted to post it.

Happyjew wrote:Though how would they get down?

The same way a Thunderfire cannon or other vehicle gets down after deploying on the top floor of some Ruins.

insaniak wrote:

BlapBlapBlap wrote:I believe you can't do it on purpose, however a simple stroke of bad luck requires a DT test

Why wouldn't you be able to do it on purpose? Units can always choose to move into Dangerous Terrain. Deep Striking is no exception.

This is because doing it on purpose causes a mishap. Check your BGB. I'm almost certain this is true. Can't really tell as someone stole mine.

You're 100% wrong. The only things that cause mishaps are impassable terrain, other units (friendly or enemy) or the table edge.

BlapBlapBlap wrote:This is because doing it on purpose causes a mishap. Check your BGB. I'm almost certain this is true. Can't really tell as someone stole mine.

It has already been explained in this thread that Deep Striking into difficult terrain does not cause a mishap.

As I said, I personally cannot check this as my BGB is stolen.

Then I would recommend against wandering into rules discussions where the issue has already been resolved and posting a contrary opinion on the rule in question until you once again have the ability to check that rule first...