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I'm trying to build an army with the units I have and unfortunately, I don't have a tank for my terminators/assault terminators. What are the major downsides to hiding them behind a rhino to advance into melee range?

The first issue is that they are slow. In a Land Raider you could move them 18¨ in a turn and then disembard 6¨ on the next turn, ready to charge. Plus, of course, the fact that they can be shot at outside of the tank, even if they can't be seen, by Barrage weapons and alot of Tau units as well as some others.

That being said, you could just deepstrike them and they'd probably be in position faster than they would be on foot.

Someone could go around it/deep strike in/be a flyer/shoot a barrage weapon at them?

You would be hard pressed to successfully hide 5 terminators behind a rhino.

 Windir83 wrote:
The first issue is that they are slow. In a Land Raider you could move them 18¨ in a turn and then disembard 6¨ on the next turn, ready to charge. Plus, of course, the fact that they can be shot at outside of the tank, even if they can't be seen, by Barrage weapons and alot of Tau units as well as some others.

That being said, you could just deepstrike them and they'd probably be in position faster than they would be on foot.

How would I be able to deep strike them?

The biggest problem with hidng units behind vehicles is that you're giving blast weapons the opportunity to hit two targets instead of just one.

kNyne83 wrote:

 Windir83 wrote:
The first issue is that they are slow. In a Land Raider you could move them 18¨ in a turn and then disembard 6¨ on the next turn, ready to charge. Plus, of course, the fact that they can be shot at outside of the tank, even if they can't be seen, by Barrage weapons and alot of Tau units as well as some others.

That being said, you could just deepstrike them and they'd probably be in position faster than they would be on foot.

How would I be able to deep strike them?

Terminator armour grants the Deep Strike rule.

What pulling off that scene from fury?

Its do able. even if they HP the tanks out they stay and BLOS (IIRC). if they explode then the guys behind are in trouble.

Also stay a little further back to avoid blasts. and hope the enemy doesn't have fliers or second story buildings or hills.

I do that quite a lot with my IG (not with terminators).

I have my allied Land Raider (with troops in it) moving up the field slowly with troops walking behind it for cover. It's often very effective.

Plus, LOS works both ways. If they can't shoot your terminators, your terminators can't shoot them (if they have guns, that is).

But yeah, hiding terminators behind something as small as a rhino isn't going to be effective for long, especially if there's terrain with any elevation.

Deep striking is a good option.

Vehicles aren't true scale, they are smaller. So it is difficult to correctly hide, say, a full 10 marines Tac squad behind it.
As it has been said, it is easier with LR because they are big enough, but not everyone play with LR...