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2014/05/09 15:36:10
Subject: Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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Been Around the Block
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I am running vanilla Space Marines. How do I bring 5 Terminators in a Drop Pod?
Do I take a minimum size tactical squad with a drop pod dedicated transport, have the tacticals run in from reserves and give the drop pod to the termies? Can I just "take" a drop pod for the Terminators?
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2014/05/09 15:39:13
Subject: Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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Heroic Senior Officer
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The terminators cannot use someone else's drop pod. Only the unit it was bought for and any attached ICs can ride in a drop pod.
As for 'taking' a drop pod for the termies, is DP listed as a dedicated transport option for them? If yes, you may. If no, you may not.
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2014/05/09 15:45:44
Subject: Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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Been Around the Block
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 don_mondo wrote:The terminators cannot use someone else's drop pod. Only the unit it was bought for and any attached ICs can ride in a drop pod.
As for 'taking' a drop pod for the termies, is DP listed as a dedicated transport option for them? If yes, you may. If no, you may not.
The only dedicated transport options I'm seeing for Terminators are Land Raiders, so it doesn't look like it's possible. I've seen some other players say it was possible (including my local GW guy) but they must have been mistaken then.
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2014/05/09 15:46:56
Subject: Re:Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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Fixture of Dakka
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Only Space Wolves can put Terminators in Drop Pods.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
Freelance Ontologist
When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life. |
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2014/05/09 15:58:52
Subject: Re:Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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Hellacious Havoc
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I believe Spaces Wolves can buy a drop pod for their Wolf Guard and put them in terminator armor.
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2014/05/09 16:46:05
Subject: Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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Abhorrent Grotesque Aberration
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I thought terminators had the deep strike special rule...(at work, no book) Why would you need a drop pod for them?
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2014/05/09 16:51:17
Subject: Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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Executing Exarch
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clively wrote:I thought terminators had the deep strike special rule...(at work, no book) Why would you need a drop pod for them?
Termi's do have Deep Strike, but DP's have a much reduced chance of a mishap or unfavourable scatter, and can turn up on turn 1.
But yeah, Space Wolves only (or IC's attached to squads that can take a 'Pod).
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2014/05/09 17:15:53
Subject: Exactly how to bring Terminators in Drop Pods (vanilla SM)
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clively wrote:I thought terminators had the deep strike special rule...(at work, no book) Why would you need a drop pod for them?
Most do. Space Wolf Termies do not. Something about not trusting such arcane tactics and preferring to fight with their feet on the ground (as Russ intended).
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