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I see a lot of daemons have the infiltrate special rule. I looked it up but its worded kinda confusing, How exactly does it work?

A lot of Daemons do not have Infiltrate.

Basically, you can put the models in the unit, anywhere on the table, as long as they are 18 inches away from enemy models. Or, you can put them anywhere within 12 inches of the enemy, as long as none of the enemy units can "See" them. So, hiding behind terrain or something.

In one notable example a White Scars player at a tournament left his entire army in reserve, the opposing Tau player could set his Kroot anywhere on the board. So he did, along the opponent's edge, thus blocking the White Scars from coming in at all and automatically winning the game without a single shot having to be fired.

If there's no enemy no one can see you and there's nothing you have to be at least 12" away from.

Oh and probably mixed it up with instability.

 n0t_u wrote:
In one notable example a White Scars player at a tournament left his entire army in reserve, the opposing Tau player could set his Kroot anywhere on the board. So he did, along the opponent's edge, thus blocking the White Scars from coming in at all and automatically winning the game without a single shot having to be fired.

If there's no enemy no one can see you and there's nothing you have to be at least 12" away from.

Oh and probably mixed it up with instability.

DE use to do that a lot by moving their raiders flat out and blocking the entire board edge in 5th. Of course if you have anything that can outflank, can DS, is jump or skimmer it can just come on over the raiders.

In 6th things are different, you lose if you have nothing on the table.

Plus there was a game breakage in 5th if a player blocked the other players board edge, as there were no instructions on how to handle this situation in 5th ed.

 Hadarac wrote:
A lot of Daemons do not have Infiltrate.

Never mind a lot... *NO* Daemons in the new Codex have Infiltrate - I suggest picking up a copy of it, and the rulebook too. This stinks of fishing for rules.

In case I'm wrong on that... exactly what about Infiltrate are you finding confusing?

DeathReaper wrote:Plus there was a game breakage in 5th if a player blocked the other players board edge, as there were no instructions on how to handle this situation in 5th ed.

They did FAQ that any model that could not come in from Reserves is destroyed, part way through 5th edition, so it no longer broke.

 Super Ready wrote:

 Hadarac wrote:
A lot of Daemons do not have Infiltrate.

Never mind a lot... *NO* Daemons in the new Codex have Infiltrate - I suggest picking up a copy of it, and the rulebook too. This stinks of fishing for rules.

In case I'm wrong on that... exactly what about Infiltrate are you finding confusing?

Nurglings do.

I was just reading this and something hit me....

Do White Scars have a special rule that allows them to come on first turn? I have never seen anything like it - but I am not an SM player.

If not...then it doesn't matter where the Tau player deploys as once there is no models on the table of the enemy's - you win....(unless we missed a rule)....The reason I don't think I did is cause we were talking about it and any Daemon player who fully reserves his army now loses Turn 1 since there is no Deep Striking....

As for what the Tau player did - completely legal and is why you never reserve your entire army when you see that your opponent has about 24ish infiltraters

 Amaraxis wrote:
I was just reading this and something hit me....

Do White Scars have a special rule that allows them to come on first turn? I have never seen anything like it - but I am not an SM player.

If not...then it doesn't matter where the Tau player deploys as once there is no models on the table of the enemy's - you win....(unless we missed a rule)....The reason I don't think I did is cause we were talking about it and any Daemon player who fully reserves his army now loses Turn 1 since there is no Deep Striking....

As for what the Tau player did - completely legal and is why you never reserve your entire army when you see that your opponent has about 24ish infiltraters

In 5th edition, there was no requirement to have things deployed on the table. From what I understand, the tournament did not allow named characters, so no Khan to give Outflank.

Also at the time there was no current, accessible rule stating that that the units were destroyed. So at the time it was quite a harsh decision

nosferatu1001 wrote:

DeathReaper wrote:Plus there was a game breakage in 5th if a player blocked the other players board edge, as there were no instructions on how to handle this situation in 5th ed.

They did FAQ that any model that could not come in from Reserves is destroyed, part way through 5th edition, so it no longer broke.

But that was well after the infamous tournament pic, as you have said.