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Hey Dakka, had a bit of a rules debate last night and wanted to know what the right way to play it was.

So the Dark Angel player used the Scouts special rule on his Ravenwing biker squad and proceeded to redeploy them 12" over, past his deployment zone.

I disagreed with this, saying that it was a "re-deploy", i.e, you had to stay in your deployment zone.

His rebuttal was that because it says under the Scout special rule "anywhere within 6" (or 12") of its current position" (Parenthesis is my own) he is allowed to redeploy outside of his deployment zone.

We decided to play it his way, but I'm still unsure as to how this was meant to be played.

Thanks for the help.

As long as he started in his deployment zone, then it's fine. Emphasis on the word "anywhere" in the rule.

If you needed to stay within the deployment zone it would state that specifically. As it stands, "anywhere" means just that.

And the fact that it also prohibits you from assaulting in the first turn is another reason to believe it would allow you to move your units closer. However, the fine gentlemen above have already nailed it.

But it must be still kept in mind, it is not a move so there will be no jink save's for the bikes.

And you have to stay 12inches away from opposing models, normally its not a issue as there is always a 24inch gap between the two armies, so a 12inch move will always be 12inches away but infiltrate moves are done before scout moves, so infiltrate out of LOS of his units so he cannot scout forwards, or infiltrate 18inchs away in LOS so he can only scout 6inches forwards.