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If this rule were ever to see the light of day it would make drop pod spam and Furioso's with Talons (and we all know how much you hate those) the bane of Tau and any gunline armies. It'd be far to strong. Not only would you be able to immediately assault but as you don't declare charges and are immediately locked in combat it removes the chance of overwatch.

 StarTrotter wrote:
imperial guard barrage armies..... *shudders*

Those make everyone shudder.

 IHateNids wrote:

 redkeyboard wrote:
If this rule were ever to see the light of day it would make drop pod spam and Furioso's with Talons (and we all know how much you hate those) the bane of Tau and any gunline armies. It'd be far to strong. Not only would you be able to immediately assault but as you don't declare charges and are immediately locked in combat it removes the chance of overwatch.

I have never said you are automatically in combat...

That's part of the reason it is S8 - so it can do some damage. Because infantry landing in RF range/dreads landing in Melta range is a pretty big risk

I would be ok to lower to S7, but much lower I don't think works, because something fired from orbit and getting superheated by the atmosphere/opening a portal into the warp should be more than able to crush light to medium tanks

Ahh my mistake when I saw the pile in move I skipped over the until 1" move. If you drop the str to 6 it wouldnt be as bad. It would mean you can still scatter and hot hit anything. It could still be devastating like others have said. Str7 could be ok because it means you are hurting things like plauge marines on 2's but doesn't instant death anything other than Eldar and Tau. But str6 des that anyway.

Edit: Why the rdanance? I understand the barrage thats obvious but not to sure about the ordanance. at str 7 or 8 it would be a pretty effective vehicle killer.

Leave it as AP5 considering explosions and togeather things similar to this are AP6 or AP- AP5 seems ok.

One thing will raise is what is the draw back to this over regular deepstrike?

Hmm yeah if they take it even if they miss then I would say its actually ok. Not to strong and hell on a with a unit of 10 your bound to roll at least a single 1.