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So for the new rules of reserving where only half of your army can start the game in reserve, does an Independent Character attached to a squad count as one unit or two units for determining how many units can be in reserve

rule book is pretty clear, IC + unit is 2

Or 0 if you place them in a vehicle that MUST start in reserve.

I thought that was only for Dedicated Transports and the Unit that bought them Nos.

As in the Unit Inside a Stormraven counts for your 50%, as does an Independent Character attached to any unit, including those in drop pods or dedicated transports that must start in reserves.

This would be because there is no requirement for that unit to be in the transport, so that they would not be a unit that must start in reserve and so would not be ignored.

Or am I misreading something?

You are. [Edit: Aaaand I mis-red your post Kreidor, sorry. ]

Units embarked upon dedicated transports that must arrive from reserve does not count when calculating the 50%, nor do the transport itself.

Units and their dedicated transport counts as one unit when calculating the 50%

Units that must arrive from reserve is not counted when calculating the 50%

Example:

A tactical squad in a drop pod does not count.

An assult squad embarked on a storm raven counts as one, the storm raven does not. Any attached IC's counts as one per.

A Devastator squad with a rhino counts as one.

Cool, thats what I was thinking.

yes this is a bit of a disappointing turn when you are playing air guard with 7 flyers 6 vet squads and a command squad. Makes it impossible to play the list right since all flyers start in reserve. you have to put 3 vets on the table even though its completely stupid to do so.

Yepp, but you wouldn't want that anyway because if you have no units on the table at the end of a game turn you automaticly loose the game.

a good compromise would have been to let flyers start on the board in hover mode.

Kiredor wrote:I thought that was only for Dedicated Transports and the Unit that bought them Nos.

As in the Unit Inside a Stormraven counts for your 50%, as does an Independent Character attached to any unit, including those in drop pods or dedicated transports that must start in reserves.

This would be because there is no requirement for that unit to be in the transport, so that they would not be a unit that must start in reserve and so would not be ignored.

Or am I misreading something?

page 36 under DS rules it states that any model embarked in a transport that must DS do not count towards the 50% of your army can start in reserve. This applies to IC that are in a drop pod with their unit. You are correct about the Stormraven. Since the Stormraven is choosing to DS it falls under the IC count as a unit themselves rule, but in a drop pod they would not.

The only limitation to Dedicated Transports given in the rules is that only the unit that bought it can deploy in it, including any IC who joined them. I don't know where all these myths about DT started but nine of them are supported by rules. You do not have to take a DT to have your unit and IC not count for reserves limit, and you can deploy your DT in a different place than the unit that bought it.