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If you have a reserved model with chain of command (e.g. a drop troop) and your lieutenant dies, does he get a lieutenant order when he comes on?

3 Scenarios:
A/ Your Lt dies in your reactive turn, so when it comes to your turn you bring on your AD COC. As well as replenishing the order pool, does the new Lt get an Lt order that turn?

B/ Your Lt dies in your active turn but you hadnt spent the Lt order before bringing on the AD COC. Is the Lt order transferred to the new Lt?

C/ Your Lt dies in you active turn and you have spent your Lt order before bringing on the AD COC. Do you get another Lt order on the new Lt?


I imagine you do in A&B but not in C.

A) No idea
B) No idea
C) No idea

Yeah ... nothing in the wiki gives a clear answer
Looked through the CoC entry, no info regarding that except it refers to the "Order Reserve"
"Order reserve" links directly the number of order to the number of miniatures, never referring to the Lt at all
The Lt order is NOT part of the "Order reserve", nothing says when it is generated though

Yeah, that was what I ran into when trying to look into it

It would seem fair to have one Lt order as long as you have a Lt alive when you generate your orders, so obviously no 2 Lt orders if he dies during your active turn

I looks to me like the Wiki addresses this fairly well: "If, when the Lieutenant is shot down, the owner of the Chain of Command Special Skill is off the game table, once he is placed on it the Loss of Lieutenant state is cancelled and the player automatically recovers the entire Order Reserve that would have been available, with the exception of Orders spent previously."

For your scenarios:
A) Yes, he gets the Lt. order and your order pool is 100% replenished minus the 1 order you used to AD him in. (though as he is not the Lt. until he hits the table he cant AD in using the Lt. order)

B) Yes, in your active turn the Lt. order will not leave the order pool and so can be spent on your Lt. as this order is not specifically tied to a particular model. (unlike an Irregular order)

C) No, orders are generated at the start of the turn, so electing a new Lt. mid-turn does not generate new orders.