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looking for a little clarification (with citations when possible).

I've been abusing Striking Scorpions lately in my skirmishes with some local gaming buddies. Nothing competitive but we're still smoothing out the edges of our strategies and getting used to the general sloppiness of 6th Ed Eldar.

Anyway my strategy has been to infiltrate 2 squads of 5 Scorpions basically anywhere in his DZ. I then make a scout move with my two squads of 3 War Walkers outside my DZ to bring their 36" range guns into range of his DZ so that the heat is on right out of the gate. Basically this means that he will want to remove the threat of my Scorpions ASAP, but will also have to content with a possible 48 shots at S6 AP6 hitting his front line.

It's been ... mostly successful so far, but I lose a lot of scorpions because they are basically just sitting ducks in the first turn. They don't usually get charged because they are decent in CC, but any shooty units in the enemies DZ pretty much blast them to hell in a hurry.

For this reason I've been contemplating the notion of having them use the Outflank special rule instead of infiltrating. In this way, they will be off the board in turn 1, but they'll arrive somewhere in the enemy DZ on a later turn (probably turn 2 since I have an Autarch and rolling a 2+ is pretty common).

My fellow gamers seem to think that they still cannot assault on the turn they arrive, even from Outflank, but I have not seen a rule that states that. I read through the BRB and didn't see anything about units arriving from reserve that can't assault. Is there something I am missing? I didn't assault the first time just because we couldn't find a good enough rule and I didn't want to cheat him out of it if it was disallowed, but I am still looking for some clarification

BRB page 125 left column second paragraph (the one entirely in bold). That is where your answer lies.

Furthermore they cannot assault the first player turn if they Infiltrste. If you go second (and they survive until then) they can charge.

In 6th edition units arriving from Reserve cannot assault on the turn they do so.

Sadly I do not have a rulebook handy, however it is in the Reserves section

Page 125 of your BRB

use this link as a guide:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/463637.page

Thanks for the reference!

Looks like GW just decided that infiltrate and Outflank are virtually useless for non-ranged characters. What a lack of foresight. Thanks again though for the info !