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Today I had a game in which a dark eldar player moved his transport 12', got his passengers out, MOVED, and assaulted.

This would be fine except for the movement in which the flgs said it allowed passengers to move once they left the 12' moved vehicle if it's an fast skimmer (open topped obviously allows assault)

I didn't have my rulebook on the day and I can't find anything in there when I came home. Is this true or false infomation? If false, what can I do to tell these players it's wrong?

It depends - did they move or run when they got out?

If a fast OT skimmer (ie a dark eldar raider/venom) moves 12" then the unit indeed may disembark. They can then follow this by running 1d6 and as they have fleet, they can charge after running.

The rules for transport vehicles are clear as to what you can do after a vehicle has moved.

As above.

Since the raider is open-topped, it can move 12" have the unit inside disembark 2" (plus about .75" for the model base). That can't move, then, but they can run 1d6" and then assault 6" (due to open-topped).

DE can get kinda scary like that as they have a huge threat range:

~2" (pivot) + 12" move + 2" disembark + ~.75" base width + 1d6" run + 6" assault = 23.75-28.75 inch assault range is well within the realm of possiblilty.

Ok thanks. I do believe they were moving and not running, as I was quite aware of the 2' access point deploy and running/fleet

How can I tell these folks they were wrong? It's not easy convincing these lot...

Blackgaze wrote:Ok thanks. I do believe they were moving and not running, as I was quite aware of the 2' access point deploy and running/fleet

How can I tell these folks they were wrong? It's not easy convincing these lot...

Show them the rule for no moving after disembarking from a moving vehicle. Ask them to show you the rule that contradicts this for fast skimmers.

alot of the DE models have fleet, so it seems plausable that they were running with them after they disembarked.

Do you remember if the unit that jumped out of the transport shot in the shooting phase?

If they did not shoot, its very likely they ran and then assaulted.

If thats the case then you just have to make sure they are rolling to see how far they can run, and not just auto running 6".

BarBoBot wrote:alot of the DE models have fleet, so it seems plausable that they were running with them after they disembarked.

Do you remember if the unit that jumped out of the transport shot in the shooting phase?

If they did not shoot, its very likely they ran and then assaulted.

If thats the case then you just have to make sure they are rolling to see how far they can run, and not just auto running 6".

Yes they did shoot after they moved (archon shot pistol in squad). In this case they didn't need to fleet, but I just needed to know.

Glad I read this. My friend told me I could move / shoot assault with my wyches after a 12" move. I thought it sounded wrong. Disembarking SHOULD be a movement. Run or shoot and assault, sure.

It's very clear in the rulebook. They need to read it again.