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Played a game the other day and we used my old 'Imperial firebase' in one onf the corners of the map.

(http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/72/imperialfirebase1.jpg)

In deployment my opponent stuck a vindicator tank right on top of the landing pad, somewhere it obviously couldn't move away from during the entire game. - I didn't really mind either way, and it was destroyed by turn two by Mr Mephiston.

If I'd have made a fuss his argument could have been 'it got dropped there by an air transport before the game'....

What do you think? 'You Make Da Call'

Might be feasible but not really cricket.

If I can balance my leman russ on top of a three story ruin can I say it was airdropped? Don't buildings count as impassable terrain to vehicles (apart from skimmers)

Seems to be a potentially stupid move to me. All you need to do as an opponent is make sure you stay out of range of it, easy enough if it's in one of the corners of the table. Your opponent has then wasted 115 points. If you have anything strong enough with a range of more than 24", then they're being doubly stupid.

It was sat right next to one of the two objective markers.... I couldn't have spent the entire game avoiding it...

Lascannon volleys from halfway across the board?

But if it's the case of him camping an objective with it, it appears legal, and that argument could hold water. But he's being decidedly unsporting.

Entirely legal to place something during deployment in an area it cannot move in during the game.

nosferatu1001 wrote:Entirely legal to place something during deployment in an area it cannot move in during the game.

Q: Can a unit deploy in impassable terrain? (p92)
A: Not unless it is specifically allowed to move through
impassable terrain.

There is a difference between impassible terrain and an area of terrain you just can't get to by normal movement.

If the landing pad was not declared impassible terrain it is possible for jump infantry etc. to land on top of the building/landing pad. Which means that it is not impassible terrain. Which means that while the vindicator could not move onto the landing pad, it could be deployed there.

Yeah you should have decided with your gaming group that it was impassible terrain, unless you as a BA player were exploiting it by jumping up there.

fuusa wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:Entirely legal to place something during deployment in an area it cannot move in during the game.

Q: Can a unit deploy in impassable terrain? (p92)
A: Not unless it is specifically allowed to move through
impassable terrain.

Was it declared as Impassable terrain? No? Then you can deploy in it

kmdl1066 wrote:There is a difference between impassible terrain and an area of terrain you just can't get to by normal movement.

Granted, but that was not strictly what I responded to, which was ...

nosferatu1001 wrote:Entirely legal to place something during deployment in an area it cannot move in during the game.

... like impassable terrain, so that ^ claim is not strictly true.

If its legal according to where units can be placed then yes its legit waist of the unit though in my opinion