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As above.

I am interested if we can come to an agreement on this.

Al'rahem does not give the platoon Infiltrate (which only transfers to dedicated transports (pg 38)) or Scout (which confers the Outflank special rule (pg 41) or even the Outflank USR itself (which would give them the option to choose to declare they are ouflanking during the deployent phase (pg 40)).

Al'rahem's rule is simply “Stalk the Enemy: Any unit that is part of Al'rahemn's Infantry Platoon must outflank‘ (IG 64). They have no option to be deployed on the table at the start of the game, and no option to come onto the table in any other way. In fact it wouldn't be legal to put a part of his platoon into a non-dedicated transport in order to avoid the ‘must outflank' rule and come on from the player's home board edge even if the player preferred to do so.

In addition, as the platoon's squads are embarked on a Vendetta they are rolled for separately so don't have to all come on the same edge thanks to the IG FAQ:

Page 96 – Infantry Platoon, second sentence Change to: “Each Infantry Platoon is deployed in place of a single unit in missions that limit the number units that can be deployed. In addition when making a reserve or outflanking roll, roll once for the whole Infantry Platoon. Any units in reserve that are embarked upon a non-dedicated transport are instead rolled for separately.”


So given this passage of writing it seems as though you can put one of Al'rahem's untis in a vendetta and not only outflank them but also roll seperately.......

Lol, someone has been reading 3++ ...

Yeah and there is still a debate going on around it. I was hoping to get more clarification on it here. Do you have any input?

No it can't Outflank. It isn't their dedicated transport, and it isn't part of Al-Raheem's Infantry Platoon either, so doesn't benefit from his special rule. Rolling for units in reserve in non-dedicated transports doesn't automatically given those non-DTs the ability to use the unit's special rules.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/546526.page

Day old, same page. The search is your friend.

To put it simply, his infantry cannot be deployed any other way, so putting them in a non-dedicated transport that deploys differently would technically be illegal

But wouldnt their rule transfer onto the vendetta that they are riding in? Kind of like how a SM Lib imparts his rules onto a unit that he is in?

No, because Outflank only confers to a Dedicated Transport.

One similar instance i guess is with space wolves. I foget which saga but there is a saga that allows for out flanking. I have seen people use this with a Land raider which was HS and not a dedicated transport.

Duplicate thread - please see the previously linked one.

Thanks!