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Ok, just want to make sure I am not bat gak crazy and this makes sense.

There was some serious shenanigans in the last tournament I went to, where the TO had (shamefully in my opinion, since he didnt even look at the rules, he just caved) ruled that Shadowsun and an allied farseer where able to join a riptide. Now lets be clear, I am not talking about a riptide with drones, which like a prime joining a unit of fexes is legal, though wonky, but perfectly legal, I am saying he join shadowsun and a farseer to "bare" riptides.

The guy was arguing, that even though they are without drones in his list, because they dont always count as "single monstrous creatures" that it is perfectly legal to join IC to them. Now, even though the TO caved, every other vet player I spoke to about this asked one simple question..."did he take drones with it?" to which I replied "no" to which they without hesitation answered "then he cant join things to it"

Now it would be one thing if I was raging cause blah blah shenanigans, he was my opponent and I lost whatever... I didn't even play this guy, but something about the whole situation really urked me.

Am I crazy, or is this SERIOUSLY another horrendous "grey area" in the rulebook that needs to be resolved by GW?

I should have been more clear, the two hqs were joined to seperate individual riptides, so T6 from the tides


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I understand, and I do feel it is cheese regardless if it works or not, I simply thought the in paranthesis section after that sentence specified that if it is a single monstrous creature it can never be joined... and since joining does not occur in your list, but at the start of the game, and since it starts the game as a single monstrous creature, it can never be joined.