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Ok, so I'm running white scars. I'm taking khan on moondraken. I'm also taking a captain on bike. I'm also taking three grav centurions. I am attaching captain on bike to said centurions. Captain on bike confers scout to entire unit. I am therefore scouting or outflanking unit which includes centurions.

Am I good to go?

Cheers

Does it restrict you from confering scout to bulky/very bulky models?

Is that in an FAQ or something?

Jamo wrote:
Is that in an FAQ or something?

It is in the SM Codex.

Not that I'm aware of. I just don't have my marine dex to check. I think one of the chapters restricts scouting that way but it might be the Raven Guard.

As long as Khan doesn't restrict you from confering it to the Cents I think you're good to go.

Yeah I've been scouring the rule books and faqs and can't find anything that restricts bulky models from scouting. Bikes scout and they are very bulky. The only restrictions for centurions in white scars rules are centurions and terminators can't have hit and run. It's actually khans rules that give scout to bikes and dedicated transports. Captain is on a bike. Under scout rules in brb it says as long as one model in the unit has the rule. So that's where I'm coming from.

It just seems too good to be true, so I thought I'd ask the community.


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@deathreaper. Sorry just saw your post. Can you give me a page number?

Jamo wrote:
Yeah I've been scouring the rule books and faqs and can't find anything that restricts bulky models from scouting. Bikes scout and they are very bulky. The only restrictions for centurions in white scars rules are centurions and terminators can't have hit and run. It's actually khans rules that give scout to bikes and dedicated transports. Captain is on a bike. Under scout rules in brb it says as long as one model in the unit has the rule. So that's where I'm coming from.

It just seems too good to be true, so I thought I'd ask the community.


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@deathreaper. Sorry just saw your post. Can you give me a page number?

There's no reason why you can't attach Khan or a bike captain to a centurion unit and have them scout. But, the better question: why aren't you giving them a Land Raider then Scouting with the land raider?

Yeah that is the other option. Thing is, I don't have a land raider! Yet....

So, just to clarify, there's no rule saying very bulky models can't scout? For some reason I keep thinking I heard it somewhere?

Nope. You can scout your devastators to your hearts content!

Wasnt there something preventing different unit types (ie bikes and infantry) from joining together or is that 5th?

Cheers McNinja!!!!

Happy camper! Grav cannons are go!

 jason1977 wrote:
Wasnt there something preventing different unit types (ie bikes and infantry) from joining together or is that 5th?

Nothing at all, in fact there are specific rules for dealing with models of different Movement Speeds in the same unit(Which you can only get via attaching an IC with a different unit type to a unit; i.e. bike captain with Tac squads)

 jason1977 wrote:
Wasnt there something preventing different unit types (ie bikes and infantry) from joining together or is that 5th?

The only real restriction is movement. Yeah, you could put a bike captain with grav centurions, but you still have to move at the speed of the slowest model. ICs can't join single model units like daemon princes or have tyrants.

 McNinja wrote:
Yeah, you could put a bike captain with grav centurions, but you still have to move at the speed of the slowest model.

Not true. Each model can move at its own speed, however the unit must maintain coherency. Of course, other than ICs joining units, the only time you would have units in a model with completely different movements (jet pack does not count as it is still limited to the max as listed for its unit type), would be Eldar Warlocks.

I may even upgrade to biker cm then detach as soon as they've outflanked so he can go bust some skulls solo.

 McNinja wrote:

 jason1977 wrote:
Wasnt there something preventing different unit types (ie bikes and infantry) from joining together or is that 5th?

The only real restriction is movement. Yeah, you could put a bike captain with grav centurions, but you still have to move at the speed of the slowest model. ICs can't join single model units like daemon princes or have tyrants.

You're remembering a 5th edition rule. The IC just needs to stay in coherency but a bike IC can absolutely move 12" in his movement phase even while attached to Centurions.