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I have built a salamanders list with grey knight allies. I have taken an inquisitor to give me access to servo skulls so that I can place them on the board in the hope that on tun one the salamanders drop pods can use them to restrict their scatter. Now the issue is they are allies of convenience. How would this affect the use of servo skulls which state that friendly units arriving within 12" only roll one scatter dice. They are strictly friendly, But only just...


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I'm assuming as they count as 'enemy units that cant be shot etc....' then the pods wont get the benefit?

Reread AoC, as your units arent friendly towards eachother, just overall as an army.

However Servoskulls ARENT units; theyre just markers.

But the rule for servo skulls state that all friendly units dont scatter. As the drop pods are AoC that surely means they wont get any benefit?

servo skulls from codex inquisition do not reduce scatter at from deep striking. Do the grey knight version state they do?


The rule for servo skulls says any shooting attacks that use scatter die reduce the scatter. This would do nothing for drop pods or deep strikers.

GK servo skulls reduce scatter for Deep Striking friendly and scatter from friendly Blasts from the normal 2d6 to only 1d6. As far as I'm aware, only Battle Brothers can benefit from each other's war gear or abilities. You would need to ally your GK to Red Hunters, and take at least one Inquisitor, in order for SM Drop Pods to gain the benefits from servo skulls.

Although, regardless of alliance quality, servo skulls will still prevent Scout Moves by your opponent. Unfortunately, servo skulls can block Scout Moves from non-BB allies, as well.

SJ

Eihnlazer wrote:
servo skulls from codex inquisition do not reduce scatter at from deep striking. Do the grey knight version state they do?
The rule for servo skulls says any shooting attacks that use scatter die reduce the scatter. This would do nothing for drop pods or deep strikers.

Think you are looking at the old Grey Knight Codex.
Looking here in black and white in the Inquisition codex: "A friendly unit arriving by Deep Strike rolls one D6 less for scatter if it aims to arrive within 12" of a Servo-skull.".
The other quote for templates was correct for scatter.

For "Battle Brothers" the servo skulls will work as written.

Jury still seems to be out on "allies of convenience" since they are treated as enemy models and cannot be targeted by psychic powers or weapons... etc. (look pg 112 BRB), it really can be interpreted many ways but it "seems" to allow only to field that other codex army but cannot interact any further than that so would not fulfill the definition of "friendly".

It oddly makes sense.

It's OK. The skulls seem to have no effect on pods. Think I'll leave them at home...

Eihnlazer wrote:
servo skulls from codex inquisition do not reduce scatter at from deep striking. Do the grey knight version state they do?


The rule for servo skulls says any shooting attacks that use scatter die reduce the scatter. This would do nothing for drop pods or deep strikers.

Yes, Codex:Grey Knights says you only roll 1D6 (instead of 2) when deep striking within 12" of a skull. The Inquisition codex doesn't replace the GK one. It's a completely separate deal. So the question is: which codex is the OP using?

That said, AoC is pretty clear that they "units in your army treat AoC as enemy units..." Therefore, No you can't use the skulls to affect your salamanders deep strike abilities.

As I pointed out - SS are NOT units, at all.