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Hi everyone!

Long time lurker here. I searched the forum and it doesn't look like this has been discussed before, so I guess I'll have to un-lurk to get an answer.

Was watching a bat-rep this morning, and realized that I seem to have been doing movement for transport vehicles incorrectly. In my head I had somehow concluded that there was a 6" (ie: combat speed) limitation to vehicle movement whenever passengers embark or disembark. Reading the rules more carefully, I see that this is incorrect, but now I am confused on a couple points. I made a chart to help myself sort it out (see attached, all from page 500 of the digital BRB).

1. Does the chart look correct? I was particularly surprised by the lack of a limitation to combat speed, and the ability to go flat out if the embarkment/disembarkment happened before the vehicle moved.

2. One bit that I think is unclear in the BRB wording is the first sentence of Disembarking: 'A unit... can disembark either before or after the vehicle has moved (including pivoting...) so long as the vehicle has not moved more than 6".'

My confusion on #2 is that the sentence is grammatically unclear, and I see two possible interpretations:
Interpretation 1. Use of past tense 'so long as the vehicle has not moved more than 6"' suggests they mean the limitation only applies if the vehicle moved first. ie: the vehicle can move cruising speed/12" if the passengers get out first.

Interpretation 2: The limitation to 6" applies to both disembarkment before and disembarkment after vehicle movement. I could see people suggesting that this is the intent because they have written the sentence as "before or after vehicle has moved..."; whereas if they wanted to make it clear that Interpretation 1 is correct they should have written something like 'before the vehicle has moved, or after the vehicle has moved no more than 6"'

Hopefully I have explained my two conflicting explanations clearly enough. I imagine there isn't a definitive answer on this, but nevertheless, what do you all think? What do you play?

Your table is good.

The, 'so long as the vehicle has not moved more than...' refers to the latter part of the disjunction; '...or after the vehicle has moved'.

Cleaning it up might look something like, "If a unit disembarks from a vehicle, the vehicle is limited to not more than 6" of movement. The vehicle's movement may be resolved before, or after the disembarkation."

EDIT: Another way to clean it up, preserving the original language, would be to use parentheses: "A unit...can disembark either before or after the vehicle has moved (including pivoting and so long as the vehicle has not moved more than 6")".