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Can a flyer drop off troops at the start of the turn and then keep zooming?

 Farseer Will wrote:
Can a flyer drop off troops at the start of the turn and then keep zooming?

your flyer must be in hover mode. that is unless it is a stormraven because i believe they have a special rule that lets them

Normal Flyers have to be in Hover to embark/disembark units. Meaning you have to declare Hover at the start of their movement and cannot change back to Zooming until the start of their next movement phase.

Necron Night Scythes, however, have their own special rules for disembarking. Stormravens also have a special rule that allows units to "deepstrike" out of them

I think AM Scions can also chute out of their zooming flyers too. These are all exceptions to the general rule that they must hover to disembark, yes.

axisofentropy wrote:
I think AM Scions can also chute out of their zooming flyers too. These are all exceptions to the general rule that they must hover to disembark, yes.

It's a rule for Valkyries/Vendettas. Works for anyone embarked on them, not just Scions.

Basically, it boils down to the flyer. Many flyers have a rule that allows a unit to disembark while the flyer is zooming but there is no general permission to do so. Each flyer's special rule to allow units to disembark while zooming (if it has such a rule, not all do) can be different from one another and some can be more "safe" then others.

Its important to note that you choose if a flyer with hover is in zoom mode or not before the flyer movers OR before any one disembarks. This means you can't hover on turn 4, drop off passengers on turn 5 then decide the flyer will zoom on turn 5. It would have to stay in hover mode through all of turn 5 as well.

Technically no they do not. However, you have to move 6" or less to allow them to disembark (outside of a few exceptions already mentioned) and you must be in hover mode to move that little. Zooming you typically will have to move at least 18". So in short, most of the time yes. Unless there is a rule that explicitly says otherwise

 grendel083 wrote:

axisofentropy wrote:
I think AM Scions can also chute out of their zooming flyers too. These are all exceptions to the general rule that they must hover to disembark, yes.

It's a rule for Valkyries/Vendettas. Works for anyone embarked on them, not just Scions.

True but if they scatter they all take dangerous terrain tests since they are jumping out of a flier

 luke1705 wrote:
Technically no they do not. However, you have to move 6" or less to allow them to disembark (outside of a few exceptions already mentioned) and you must be in hover mode to move that little. Zooming you typically will have to move at least 18". So in short, most of the time yes. Unless there is a rule that explicitly says otherwise

Actually that is wrong. There is a specific rule stating you cannot be zooming and disembark (or rahter, that to disembark you must be Hovering)